Raita is a traditional South Asian side dish and is very helpful in digesting high calorie food. Raita is prepared in variety of ways by using different vegetables including cucumber, cabbage etc. Veggies ...

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Preparation time 5 mins | Serves 4 persons

Raita is a traditional South Asian side dish and is very helpful in digesting high calorie food. Raita is prepared in variety of ways by using different vegetables including cucumber, cabbage etc. Veggies combined with some spices like cumin and chilies makes it healthy side meal with full of nutrition and taste. This type of raita can be made whenever you are doing vegetarian cooking, BBQ cooking etc. It is served with lots of spicy food items specially with biryani and some fried rice.

Ingredients:
1 cup yogurt
1 clove garlic
1 tspn salt
1/4 cup coriander leaves
1/4 cup mint leaves
3-4 green chilies
1/2 tspn cumin powder

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Procedure:
1. In a blender, make a green paste of coriander leaves, mint leaves, green chilies and garlic.
2. In a bowl, beat yogurt using egg beater to make smooth paste.
3. Now add green paste, cumin powder and salt in the yogurt and mix well.

Serving:
Green raita is ready to serve with any spicy food like biryani and kebab.

Note:
You can make its consistency thin if you want to drink it separately for as a digesting aid.

Sauces are of many types, some of them are only used to give flavor in the food, while some are used as dip for any snack or meal and some sauces can ...

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Sauces are of many types, some of them are only used to give flavor in the food, while some are used as dip for any snack or meal and some sauces can be used for both purposes for example hot sauces like tomato ketchup, bbq sauce, pizza sauce etc. This recipe of sauce is usually served with meal or fried fish. Mostly this sauce has mint flavor, sugar and other spices. To make this recipe taste great, it is advised to only use fresh mint as well as fresh coriander.

Ingredients:

1 bunch of mint leaves
1 bunch of coriander leaves
5-6 cloves of garlic
½ cup tamarind paste
4 tbspn sugar or as required
6 green chilies

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Procedure:

1. In a blender, put coriander leaves, mint leaves, green chilies and garlic cloves with very little water in it and blend it so that all the ingredients blend completely.
2. Now add tamarind paste, sugar and pinch of salt in it and blend together to make a smooth paste.

Servings:

Put the sauce in a bowl and enjoy it with rice or any other meal.

Preparation time : 15 mins. | Serves 4 persons

Its very different juice and hardly anyone knows about it. Its very healthy and nutritious because of mint and fennel and good for those who has some gastric and heart burning problems.Ingredients:1 ...

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Its very different juice and hardly anyone knows about it. Its very healthy and nutritious because of mint and fennel and good for those who has some gastric and heart burning problems.

Ingredients:
1 bunch of mint leaves
½ cup fennel seeds (saunf)
3-4 green cardamom
Sugar to taste
2 glass

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Procedure:
1. Blend all of the above ingredients in the blender.
2. Using drainer or soft cotton piece drain out all the blended liquid so that no particles are in the liquid.
3. Mix 1 glass of more water in it and sugar (if required).

Serving:
Serve in glass with sprinkle icing sugar and mint leaves over on top of it.