Creative Ways To Use Yogurt Apart From Your Breakfast
Yogurt is popular and is considered healthy. Yogurt has been part of human diet for many years. It is very nutritious and has many health benefits. Yogurt need not be a bland boring ingredient that accompanies paranthas in breakfast or as a raita where it remains a side-dish. In many parts of India, it is used as a key ingredient in sumptuous dishes.
Avial: Avial is a vegetable based curry from Kerala that is prepared using a blend of coconut cream and yogurt. You can add whatever vegetables to suit your palate — plantains, squash, potatoes, cucumbers, and yams are some commonly used vegetables for avial. Mild spices like cumin and turmeric make it flavorsome. Avail is generally served with boiled or steamed rice.
Punjabi Kadhi Pakora: Bright yellow and delicious, this gram flour based dish with freshly ground spices come from the northwestern state of Punjab. Served with rice this dish is embellished with fried onion and chilly fritters (pakoras) is as good a comfort food as one can wish. The dumplings dipped in a curry-flavored yogurt dressing, make the dumplings soft and delicious.
Tadkamethi raita: This is another delight for yogurt lovers! Unlike Punjabi curry that is cooked with yogurt, this is a yogurt that is mixed with fried fenugreek, ginger and curry spices. This easy to make dish has very few ingredients – onions, ginger, curry leaves, fenugreek and mustard seed. Garnished with slightly sautéed mustard seeds, the raita can be served with roti, naan, rice or bread.