Cabbage Cucumber Salad with Mustard Yogurt Dressing

Cabbage cucumber salad sounds very fancy, doesn’t it?  Well, it is non other than cabbage cucumber raita. I bookmarked the recipe over two years ago when Nupur did a guest post on Sailu’s Kitchen.  The recipe she posted is a salad but I modified it to raita.  Every time I post a raita recipe, a ramble about how much I dislike plain yogurt but love raitas!  I am not going to do that today and get right to the recipe.   This raita/salad  is yet another addition to my raita recipe collection and tweaked the recipe to my taste.

Source: Nupur
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Serves: 2-4 depending on how you serve it.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Cabbage chopped or shredded
• 1 Kirby chopped or ⅔-3/4 cups chopped Kirby or cucumber
• ¼ cup chopped Red Onion
• 1 Green Chili seeded and chopped
• ⅛ tsp Cumin Powder (store bought)
• ¼ tsp Mustard Powder (I like to lightly roasted it before making a powder but I have some unroasted mustard powder and used that instead)
• 1 – 1 ½ cup Yogurt (I used half homemade and half store bought yogurt)
• ¾ – 1 tsp Salt (adjust to taste)

Preparation:

• Chop the vegetables and keep them aside.
  

• In a bowl add salt, mustard powder, cumin powder, yogurt and whisk it until all the spices are mixed well.
• Pour this over the salad.
• Chill it until ready to serve.
• Serve it as a side dish with rice or with grilled meat or poultry.

Note:

• In the picture I used 1 cup of yogurt and after taking the picture, I added another ½ cup of yogurt. I like more yogurt in this raita.
• Can substitute cabbage with store bought coleslaw packet.

This is my entry to Only – Salads event started by Pari.  I am also sending Chickpea Salad for the event.