Name: Cucumber Raita (Kheere ka Raita)
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 1 Cup Curd (plain unsweetened yoghurt or greek yogurt); ½ Teaspoon Roasted Jeera Powder (cuming powder); ¾ Teaspoon Rock Salt (sub with plain salt); 1 Cup Grated Cucumber

Super quick and easy, this Cucumber Raita is refreshing & makes for the perfect accompaniment to most Indian dishes. All you need is four basic ingredients and a couple of minutes to put this one together

Cucumber Raita served in a bowl with sliced cucumber as garnish

Raita is such a great way to complete any Indian meal, don’t you think? Whether it’s the basic everyday lunch of roti, sabzi, dal and rice or that Sunday special biryani, adding a raita to the mix always makes things more fun. Plus it also helps that making raita is such a quick and simple process – and this cucumber raita is no exception.

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Ingredients for Cucumber Raita

All you need is grated cucumber, yoghurt or curd, cumin powder and salt! Yes, just four basic ingredients and you’ve a bomb raita ready in 5 minutes!

Ingredients required for cucumber raita laid out with text overlay to identify them

Apart from the taste, the texture and consistency also play an important role in making the perfect cucumber raita. It should neither be too runny nor too thick. The perfect raita is supposed to be creamy.

Recipe Tip

To make the yummiest kheera raita, squeeze out all the excess water from the grated cucumber before adding it to the curd. This prevents your raita from becoming too runny and gives you the perfect creamy texture each time.

How To Make Cucumber Raita

Here’s a quick step by step to show you how to make this easy recipe

Add curd, rock salt and cumin powder in a bowl. You can also use hung curd or greek yogurt for an even creamier raita – almost like tzatziki
Whisk these together till smooth
Squeeze out any excess liquid from grated cucumber. Do this a few times till you get all the liquid out
Add this to the curd mixture
Mix this well. At this point you can also add some chopped green chillies for spice
Serve this chilled

While this cucumber raita tastes delicious as is, you can add onions, tomatoes, green chillies and coriander for an extra boost of flavour. Serve it with parathas, roti and sabzi, biryani or even veg pulao to make a complete meal!