Pakistani
Podine Wala Raita (Mint Yogurt)
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Podine Wala Raita (Mint Yogurt) is Pakistani 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
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Whisk the yogurt with a little water until it is smooth and pourable but not thin.
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Chop the mint finely and grate the cucumber, squeezing out most of its water so the raita does not go watery in ten minutes.
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Stir the mint, cucumber, finely chopped green chili and salt through the yogurt.
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Sprinkle the roasted cumin powder and red chili powder over the surface rather than mixing them in, so the first spoonful carries the aroma.
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Chill 15 minutes before serving.
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This is the cooling counterweight to a hot salan and it is what a child's plate gets more of.
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Serve it with
A Pakistani dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Podine Wala Raita (Mint Yogurt), 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 protein alongside
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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. Podine Wala Raita (Mint Yogurt) 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 | Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea) |
| 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
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 90 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 7 g
- Fat
- 4 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 5 g
- Sodium
- 580 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Podine Wala Raita (Mint Yogurt) 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.
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