fruit raita – a simple and easy raita recipe to go with your regular meals or the food you prepare for fasting or vrat. since the indian fasting recipes are usually loaded with carbs and fat….. its a good practice to include some proteins and vitamins-minerals in the fasting food. plain fruits as well as fruit juices are great to boost the nutrient quotient in a fasting diet.
raitas are ideal accompaniment for pulao, biryani or dal rice combination. they are quick to prepare and make your meal more rich and colorful. i usually like to spice up the raitas by adding chaat masala, chilli powder, jeera powder, amchur and so on.
this mix fruit raita is a sweet raita. it can be just had plain as a dessert. as i wanted to prepare this raita for navratri vrat, so i took care to use the spices which are allowed during navartri fasting. so this raita recipe is spiced up subtly with roasted cumin powder, red chilli powder and rock salt only.
you can refer this navratri fasting rules post to know more about navratri vrat rules. if you are making this raita on a regular day then you can add any other spice of your liking too.
for making the fruit raita, i have used bananas, pomegranate and apples. no special reason for using them except that they were there in my kitchen and these fruits go along well. you can use fruits of your choice to make this raita. but just take care that the fruit combination go well together. e.g. i don't like to have citrus fruits with sweet fruits.
if you are looking for more raita recipes then do check boondi raita, onion tomato raita, vegetable raita, pomegranate raita and cucumber raita.
fruit raita
Author: dassana
Recipe type: dessert
Cuisine: north indian
Serves: 2-3
- 4 tbsp chilled yogurt (dairy or vegan)
- 1 medium pomegranate. sliced and the arils removed
- 1 medium apple, peeled, cored and chopped
- 1 medium banana, peeled and chopped
- ½ to 1 tbsp sugar
- a pinch of roasted cumin powder
- a pinch of rock salt – black salt can also be used if you have it during fasting
- a pinch of red chili powder or cayenne pepper
- whisk the yogurt till smooth.
- add the sugar, salt and spice powders and stir well.
- fold in the chopped fruits.
- serve the fruit raita immediately.
- you also garnish the raita with pomegranate arils.
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