Onion Raita Recipe
Cool onion and yogurt salad. Indian Raita recipe. Onion Raita makes your meal more colorful as well as healthier. You can use Homemade Yogurt or store bought yogurt. You may use red onions or white onions for raitha. Tempering is optional. Not only it is a very healthy recipe, but it is easy and simple and quick recipe too.
Equipment
- 1 Mixing Bowl
- 1 small pan / tadka pan for making tempering
Ingredients
How to Make Onion Raita
Ingredients for onion raitha to serve 3-4
- Onion – 1 medium
- Curds plain yogurt – 1 cup
- Salt – to taste
- Sugar – 1/4 tsp
- Green chili optional – 1 chopped fine or slit in two.
- Coriander Cilantro leaves – 1 tbsp
Ingredients for tempering
- Oil – 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Asafoetida – a pinch
Instructions
Making raita
Preparation –
- Chop fine – onions, cilantro
- Slit chili in half if you want to take it out before serving. Chop chili finely if you like raita chili hot.
Prepare tempering –
- Heat oil. Add mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
- Add the slit chili, pinch of hing/asafetida. Take off the stove and let cool.
Final Mixing
- Mix together chopped onions, cilantro leaves, salt, sugar, curds.
- Add the prepared tempering and mix well.
- Serve with rice or roti bread, paratha, naan immediately or after cooling in the fridge for sometime.
Notes
Tip:
- You can add black pepper powder along with or instead of green chili according to your taste.
- The plain yogurt(curds)should be fresh and sweet. Make sure it is not sour.
- Add 1 tbsp fresh grated coconut to this raita if you wish.
- Keep the raitha in the fridge if you are planning to serve it later. If left outside, it can get sour.
- Raita tastes wonderful with all the rice dishes as well as roti breads.