best recipe for indian mint sauce yogurt and chicken tikka.

[hollydog]

As above please help. I have tried all normal ways but I think I am missing something important. The mint yogurt I have from my local takeaway is yellow and has a wedge of lime in it and is spicy. I can't seem to make it myself any where near.

[MGgeordie]

I use natural yoghurt and milk (75% yoghurt, 25% milk). Then I add mint sauce, the ready made kind you put on lamb (or in my case veg to make it taste of something).

I find that this homemade yoghurt sauce is acceptable with homemade curry & supermarket bhajis etc but not a patch on the Indian stuff.

Do you know or work with any Asian people? They may be able to help. Us English folk are useless at trying to replicate tasty Asian cuisine!!!

[PurpleTurtle]

Can't help with a recipe I'm afraid, but as an Indian food fan of a couple of decades I've got a basic measure of the Raita being fairly indicative of how much I will like the rest of the menu.

Yellow and reasonably thick as you describe: I'm in.
White and watery: I'll pass thanks.

[gobuddygo]

Have done this a few times its from a recipe by Petrina Verma Sarkar

• 500ml thick yogurt, whisked till smooth
• 4 oz. fresh mint leaves chopped fine
• 1 large cucumber grated
• 3/4 tsp cumin powder
• 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• Salt to taste

•Squeeze as much water as you can from the cucumber, Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl and blend till mixed well.
•Chill for about 2 hours and serve.

[mart 63]

Mango chutney gives it the yellow colour

[Mobile Chicane]

Here's my recipe:

300 ml whole milk natural yogurt
1/2 a cucumber, peeled, de-seeded and grated
1 level tsp cumin seeds, toasted in a dry pan until brown and nutty smelling
1 green Indian finger chilli (or more) finely chopped
small handful fresh mint leaves, finely chopped

Mix everything together and add a few pinches of golden caster sugar to taste. Palm sugar or jaggery if you can get it. It's this which gives the colour.

Garnish with fresh chopped coriander if you like.