Cucumber Raita

[CateA]

Cucumber Raita
Serves 4 as an accompaniment
Ingredients:

1/2 cup natural Greek style yogurt
3 small Greek cucumbers
3 tspns cumin seeds
2 tbspns lemon juice
1 tspn salt
3 tbspns mint leaves

Preparation:

Chop mint leaves for 10 seconds on speed 4 (you can chop it anywhere from speed 4 to speed 7 but I like the mint to be a little chunkier).  Remove and set aside.  Clean and dry the TM bowl and add the cumin seeds.  Dry roast for 2 mins at 100c on speed 1.  Let cool.  Remove 1 teaspoon of the roasted seeds and set aside, leaving the remaining seeds in the TM bowl.  Add the garlic and chop for 10 seconds on speed 9.  Add cucumber and chop for 20 seconds on speed 4 (again, if you like a smoother raita, you can chop the cucumber on up to speed 7 for 10 seconds).  Add the lemon juice, mint, yoghurt, salt and reserved cumin seeds, then blend for 1 minute on  

Tips/Hints:
This is supposed to be an accompaniment for curries but is also great as a starter to an Indian meal with with pappadums, naan bread, parathas etc as a dip.  It is best to leave it for at least 1/2 an hour to let the flavours develop - the longer it is left, the better the flavour.

[Nay-nay]

My sister will love this! Forwarding it on to her now - Thanks 

[Thermomixer]

Good work CateA - do you peel or de-seed your cucumbers ?  or just roughly chop and throw them all in ?

[cookie1]

Thanks CateA. We would love this with our Naan bread as I always make too much.

[goldfish]

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