Name: Simple Raita Sauce Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup 0% Fat Greek Yogurt; 2 tbsp lemon juice; 20 leaves mint; to taste salt

Simple Raita sauce recipe to accompany delicious and tasty fried foods and more, it’s a traditional Indian sauce served alongside vegetable, meat main courses and more. You only need three ingredients if you consider mint an ingredient, very quick to prepare and perfect to accompany Indian dishes and naturally not just them. The main ingredient is yogurt, dry and compact, more precisely the strained Greek yogurt, which is obtained by removing all the liquids, thus being creamier and denser, a great nutritional source of phosphorus and calcium. We truly have many reasons to consume it.

Difficulty: Very Easy
Cost: Cheap
Preparation time: 10 Minutes
Portions: 4
Cooking methods: No Cooking
Cuisine: Indian
Seasonality: All Seasons

32.87 Kcal

calories per serving

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Energy 32.87 (Kcal)
Carbohydrates 2.71 (g) of which sugars 2.71 (g)
Proteins 5.66 (g)
Fat 0.00 (g) of which saturated 0.00 (g)of which unsaturated 0.00 (g)
Fibers 0.02 (g)
Sodium 387.81 (mg)

Indicative values for a portion of 70 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA^* and FoodData Central^** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.

^* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ^** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

Ingredients

1 cup 0% Fat Greek Yogurt
2 tbsp lemon juice
20 leaves mint
to taste salt

Tools

Chopper
Citrus Juicer

Steps

Fresh mint and freshly squeezed lemon combined with yogurt make raita sauce an enticing dip for fried foods, vegetables, meats, and much more.
In the chopper, place fresh mint leaves with salt, yogurt, and lemon juice.
Chop for a few seconds until the sauce appears smooth and homogeneous.
Here’s your Raita sauce ready, a simple and easy recipe to make. I also used it to accompany the potato omelette, and I assure you, the freshness and lightness were evident.