Lauki raita is a refreshing yogurt-based dish made with spiced lauki and yogurt. Lauki is also known as bottle gourd, doodhi, or ghia. Lauki raita is healthy and tastes delicious. Serve this as a side dish with any Indian flatbread or over the rice.
Course Raita
Cuisine Indian
Keyword lauki, raita
Servings 2people
Ingredients
1cup yogurt (curd, dahi)
Approx. ½cup milk, use as needed
1 cup lauki grated (bottle gourd, doodhi, ghia)
2 tbspoil
1 tbspcumin seeds (jeera)
1/8 tbspasafetida (hing)
2 whole red chilies (lal mirch)
1tbspginger finely chopped (adrak)
1tbspgreen chilies finely chopped
3tbspcilantro finely chopped (hara dhania)
1/2tbspsalt
Instructions
Whip the yogurt and add the milk as needed to make the consistency of pancake batter, set aside.
Heat the oil in a saucepan on medium-high heat.
Add the cumin seeds and asafetida. After the cumin seeds crack, add red chilies. Stir-fry a few seconds.
Add lauki, ginger, green chilies, and cilantro, and stir-fry until most of the water has evaporated and the lauki is tender. This should take about four to five minutes.
After the lauki cools, mix it well into the yogurt.