North Indian
Boondi Raita
Boondi Raita is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 cups plain curd
- 1 cup boondi
- 1/2 tsp roasted cumin powder
- 1/4 tsp red chili powder
- 2 tbsp chopped cilantro
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Whisk the curd smooth with the roasted cumin, salt, and a little water until pourable.
- Fold in the boondi and let it soften for 5 minutes.
- Chill briefly, sprinkle with chili powder and cilantro, and serve cool.
Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Boondi Raita, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Boondi Raita carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Mango Pickle (Achaar) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Dairy and Pulses
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Boondi Raita takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on curd and boondi.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from North India, South India, West India, East India, and Northeast India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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