
Cucumber raita
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- no cook
- Easy
- Serves 6
A herby yogurt dip to serve with curry recipes and spiced food. If you want to make this sauce ahead, keep the cucumber separate until the last minute
- Gluten-free
- Vegetarian
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- 500g Greek yogurt
- 20g mint
- 30g coriander
- 1 cucumber
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal122
- fat9g
- saturates6g
- carbs5g
- sugars4g
- fibre1g
- protein6g
- salt0.5g
Method
step 1
Tip the yogurt into a food processor with the mint, coriander and ½ tsp salt, then blitz until smooth. Halve the cucumber lengthways and remove the seeds with a teaspoon. Discard the seeds, then thinly slice. Stir into the herby yogurt just before serving.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2017
Comments, questions and tips (1)
Overall rating
kedz
Although the flavours were good, if you blitz the yoghurt it turns to a liquid. Next time I would chop the herbs small, mix into the yoghurt with a spoon. Salt the grated cucumber to release some water for 10 mins, rinse, squeeze out moisture and mix in with the yoghurt. I also wouldn't make quite…