Boondi Raita
Boondi Raita is a curd dish served with paratha, biryani, Pulav, fried rice etc. This is very easy to make and hardly takes 5 minutes to prepare and completes the meal.
Servings: 2 People
Ingredients
- 1 cup Curd
- ½ cup Boondi 100 – 150gms
- 1 tsp Salt or as per taste
- ½ tsp Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
- 1 pinch Red Chilli Powder (Optional)
- 1 pinch Asafoetida/ Hing
- 1 pinch Chat Masala
- Water – As required
Instructions
- Soak the boondi in fresh or cold water for 5 minutes to soak and become soft.
- Beat yogurt to smooth and mix to the soaked boondi. Adjust water as per the consistency you require.
- Heat a pan and dry roast the cumin seeds. Remove from heat and crush the roasted cumin seed to coarse powder. Add to the curd. Season with salt as per taste.
- Raaita is ready to be served. Sprinkle a pinch of red chilli powder & chat masala. However both are optional and you can skip.
- You can else add tampering of ¼ tsp oil, a pinch of hing and cumin seeds and add them to the raita