Potato raita / Indian potato salad with yogurt
Potato raita spiced with ginger makes a perfect refreshing side!
Ingredients
- 500 g uncooked potatoes made 4 cups after cooking
- ½ cup chopped red onions or shallots,pearl onions
- 1 tsp crushed ginger/ginger paste
- 1-2 cups yogurt
- 1 green chilli any variety optional
- water as needed
For hot oil tempering/oggarane/tadka
- 1 tsp oil
- ¼ tsp mustard seeds
- ¼ tsp cumin seeds
- curry leaves a few
- 1 dry red chilli broken optional
Instructions
- Peel and cook potatoes until tender.
- Mash them into pieces. Don't mash them to a paste.
- Add chopped onions, ginger, green chillies and salt to taste.Note: Mash ginger into a paste if you don't like to bite on ginger in your salad
- Add yogurt. I added 1 cup yogurt and thinned it further using water. You can add up to 2 cups of yogurt.
Prepare tempering/tadka/oggarane
- In a small pan, heat oil.
- When oil starts glistening, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, dry red chilli.
- When mustard seeds splutter, pour the hot oil over the raita and mix.
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Notes
If you don't have both mustard seeds and cumin seeds on hand, one of the two can be used.