Raita recipes - Healthy Cool Salads with yogurt

A Raita recipe is a Indian side dish recipe. It is also called Pachadi or spelt or pronounced as raitha in South Indian states. It is a wonderful way to add made raw vegetables in your diet. Most vegetables that are used for making salads such as tomatoes, cucumber, onions, carrots are used to make raitha.

It is a curd(yogurt) based salad dish. Homemade yogurt is used a lot in most Indian homes. It is served with any rice or roti(bread) and curry dish.

A festive meal or a everyday meal, raitha adds color and taste to your menu. It goes very well with pulao, vegetable biryani, lemon rice, plain rice.

It is useful to make the hot curry dish more pleasant. If you love curries but can not tolerate the hotness of spices and chili, raitha/pachadi can help you. Have a serving of cucumber raitha along with your meal.

It cools the body in summer. You can have it as a snack in the hot summer afternoons. Just chill it for 30 minutes before serving. I am sure you will like this cool and tastier way of having your salad.