Fruit Raita
Fruit raita is sweet raita variety made with yogurt, mixed fruits and a few spice powders.
Servings: 2 to 3
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoon chilled yogurt (dahi or curd) - dairy or vegan
- 1 medium pomegranate - sliced and the arils removed
- 1 medium apple - peeled, cored and chopped
- 1 medium banana - peeled and chopped
- ½ to 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 pinch roasted cumin powder
- 1 pinch rock salt (edible and food grade) (sendha namak) or black salt.
- 1 pinch red chili powder or cayenne pepper
Instructions
- In a bowl, whisk the yogurt (curd) till smooth. Use the curd that is fresh and it should not be sour tasting.
- Add sugar or as required. Mix the sugar well, till it dissolves.
- Next add roasted cumin powder, 1 pinch of red chili powder and 1 pinch of rock salt. Stir well.
- Lastly add the chopped banana, apple and pomegranate arils. Mix well.
- You can garnish the raita with pomegranate arils.
- Serve the fruit raita immediately.
Notes
- If you are making fruit raita for regular days (non-fasting days) then you can use normal or regular salt instead of rock salt. For fasting food we use rock salt.
- The recipe can be doubled or tripled.
- The amount of spices can be altered as per your taste preference.
- Use the combination of fruits that go well together.
- You can also add dry fruits like cashews, almonds and raisins.
- To make the recipe vegan use vegan yogurt.