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mint raita

mint raita

3.0
A cold yogurt sauce with mint served with spicy Indian food
  • noun
  • Indian
translation icon : raita de menta
  • A bowl of mint raita was served alongside the spicy curry.

Examples

  • To cool down the meal, they added spoonfuls of mint raita to their plates.

  • She made a refreshing mint raita for the summer picnic.

  • I love mint raita with my biryani.

  • The chef prepared a delicious mint raita for the guests.

  • A bowl of mint raita was served alongside the spicy curry.

  • She made a refreshing mint raita for the summer picnic.

  • To cool down the meal, they added spoonfuls of mint raita to their plates.

Synonyms

raita
vsmint raita
1 8.1

A cold yogurt side dish with chopped cucumber and spices served with spicy food

is a yogurt condiment flavored with fresh herbs rather than cucumber and spices

Surface Forms

mint raita singular
mint raitas plural

Morphology

mint + raita

The meaning 'a yogurt-based sauce flavored with mint' is directly predictable from combining 'mint' (the herb) with 'raita' (a yogurt dish); the first noun is an attributive modifier specifying the flavor/type of the second. This straightforward culinary noun-noun composition is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand the MWE.

Etymology

Mint raita comes from the simple idea of mixing fresh mint leaves into plain yogurt called raita to make a cool, fresh 'sauce'. So the name points to a mint-flavored yogurt 'side' used to 'cool' spicy food.