I saw this recipe on Nigella Feasts. I usually don’t like the show very much. Don’t get me wrong. She’s a wonderful cook. I just am very uncomfortable with the way she romances the camera, with her coy smiles, subtle shimmeys, blushes, eyelid bats etc. Watching a stranger coming on to me on television, when she’s cooking is a little nauseating.

However, this show had an Indian theme to it and I really like two of the items she cooked on it. One of them was a sweet and tangy pomegranate raita. If you don’t already know, a raita is a curd based dip that accompanies a lot of North Indian cooking, especially if there’s any Indian bread on the plate. South Indians have it too, but it’s called patchadi.

Here it is the Anarkali of Raitas –

The Pomegranate Raita a la Nigella

What you need:-

1 1/2 cups natural yogurt

3 spring onions
1 pomegranate, to give 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds 
1/2 teaspoon salt

Let’s Do This:-

Chop the spring onions. Spring onions are supposed to be milder than actual onions, but I didn’t feel it at all. Cut off the leaves, the roots and slice about 2-3 mm thick circles across.

 

Next, we need to deseed the pomegranate. A nice trick is to cut the thing in half. Once you’ve done that, take a hard bottomed spoon, keep the seeded side away from you and well, for want of a better word, spank! 🙂

Give the skin some nice hard but firm thwacks and all the seeds should pop right out.

This should ensure that you get something that looks like this –

 

Combine all of the ingredients in a bowl, reserving some pomegranate seeds for garnish. Add a squeeze of pomegranate juice from the husks of the seeded pomegranate at the end.

Stir everything together, and serve in a bowl scattering the reserved pomegranate seeds over as a garnish. 

 

Now doesn’t that look yummy or what? I’ll warn you – don’t try licking it. If you do, you’ll end up making it your main course!