Lauki raita

Name: Lauki raita
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 200 gm thick yogurt; 1 small size bottle gourd/ lauki; 1 cup water; To taste Salt; 1 tsp black pepper powder; 1.5 tsp roasted jeera(cumin) powder; 1/2 tsp red chilli powder; 1 tbsp coriander leaves chopped; 2 pinch hing/ asafoetida; 1 tsp ghee; 2 bottles yakult light

Vaishali Singh @cook_15667007

Bangalore

A healthy, nutritious lauki or bottle gourd raita made using #yakult light. Pair this with your favourite stuffed paranthas, rice (khichadi or pulao).

Vaishali Singh @cook_15667007

Bangalore

A healthy, nutritious lauki or bottle gourd raita made using #yakult light. Pair this with your favourite stuffed paranthas, rice (khichadi or pulao).

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Ingredients

200 gmthick yogurt
1small size bottle gourd/ lauki
1 cupwater
To tasteSalt
1 tspblack pepper powder
1.5 tsproasted jeera(cumin) powder
1/2 tspred chilli powder
1 tbspcoriander leaves chopped
2 pinchhing/ asafoetida
1 tspghee
2 bottlesyakult light

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Steps

1

Peel, wash and grate the lauki/ bottle gourd.
2

In a sauce pan add 1 cup of water and put the grated bottle gourd in it along with 1/4 tsp salt and boil for 5 mins. Shut down the flame and cover and let it sit in the pan for another 5 mins. Strain the water and let it get to room temperature.
3

In a bowl, take the yogurt and whisk it till it is smooth and lump free. Add the boiled lauki and season with salt, black pepper, jeera powder.
4

Prepare a tempering by heating ghee in a pan, add jeera seeds and allow it to crackle. Add hing and red chilli powder, cook for 15-20 secs and pour this tempering into the yogurt. Mix well and put it in the fridge till you need to serve.
5

Just before serving, add yakult into the yogurt, mix well and garnish with some black pepper, red chilli powder, jeera powder and coriander leaves.