Cucumber raita

                                                          Kheera or cucumber raita

                                                                   

Ingredients
1small cucumber
2cups fresh yoghurt
Salt to taste
1 teaspoon ghee
1/2 teaspoon jeera(cummin seeds)
1/2teaspoon mustard seeds

Dried mint leaves powder and roasted jeera powder
Wash peel and grate cucumber.Whisk yoghurt and add grated cucumber to it.Mix well.Heat ghee in a seasoning pan add cummin seeds and mustard seeds.Pour over raita and mix.Add salt to taste
.Garnish raita with jeera and mint powder .Raita is ready to serve.
It is very soothing and gives a cooling effect.
Tips :-
Salt should be added just before serving .If added early then yoghurt start getting sour.

Lauki ka raita

                                                                     Lauki ka Raita




         Word raita tells about the combination of yoghurt with any vegetables ,fruits or fried bundi.
It is a side dish.
Ingredients

1/2 cup lauki peeled and grated
2cup fresh yoghurt
 1/2.  Teaspoon Roasted jeera powder
1/2teaspoon dried mint leaves
1/2teaspoon mustard seeds
Pinch of hing powder
1 teaspoon ghee


Microwave or boil lauki for few minutes with two three tablespoon water as lauki itself is high  in water content.Let it cool.Whisk yoghurt in a bowl and then add lauki and mix well.
Now heat ghee and add hing and mustard seeds till start cracking and pour on yoghurt.
Garnish with jeera powder and crushed mint leaves.Let it cool in the fridge .
Serve with roti,paratha or pulao

Lauki ki sabzi

                                                    Ingredients

1 cup lauki peeled and cut into 1/2 "pieces
2 medium size tomatoes chopped
2 tablespoon oil
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds and cummin seeds each
a pinch of hing
1 teaspoon red chilli powder
1 teaspoon coriander  powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/2 tespoon chopped green chilli and green coriander
salt according to taste

                                                                                  


In a pressure cooker pour oil and heat add hing ,cummin,mustard seeds .add chilli powder,coriander powder and turmeric poweder.stir well . Add salt and stir.Now add tomatoes .stir and cover and let it cook for twwo whistles.Now switch off the burner.Let the pressure to cool for five minutes.
Lauki sabzi is ready to serve with roti,paratha or rice or khichadi.


Tips :- It can be cooked in a pan instead of cooker .In case one wants to cook in a pan then let the lauki cook for five minutes after adding spices .Then add tomatoes and then for few more minutes.
as the tomatoes slower the cooking process.