Lassi Recipe (3 Variations) » Dassana’s Veg Recipes

Lassi is a cooling, refreshing, probiotic drink good for the nice and cozy summer season months. Well-liked in Punjab and North India, there are various variations of a lassi recipe, together with mango lassi, dry fruits lassi, and malai lassi. Right here I share three straightforward, energizing and flavorful lassi recipe variations with you.

About Lassi

Lassi is a blended yogurt drink that could be very standard within the Northern Components of India. It’s made with mixing curd or yogurt with water or milk, salt or sugar and some spices or herbs.

There are various variations of constructing this drink. Lassi is made each candy and salty. Lassi can also be a probiotic drink as clearly it’s constructed from curd or yogurt which has intestine pleasant micro organism in it.

It is usually made with a mixture of fruits and yogurt. I’ve earlier shared these fruity variations of lassi – Mango Lassi and Strawberry Lassi.

Though the candy model is a most well-liked alternative of drink for a lot of, some people additionally like salted lassi. My private favourite will all the time be Mango lassi.

Relished in scorching summers due to its cooling properties, we frequently make lassi utilizing a wood churner and blender (known as as madani, in Punjabi and Hindi language). You possibly can select to mix the lassi components in a blender or with a wired whisk or immersion blender.

I do have a blender, however I desire to make lassi this manner with the wood churner. Churning the recent Homemade Curd with the normal Indian hand blender has its personal attraction, and lassi made this manner tastes completely different, too.

About Candy Lassi

I like to make the candy Punjabi lassi at dwelling. Very gentle and never almost as heavy as different another variations, this lassi recipe takes simply 10 minutes to arrange. Candy Lassi is flavored with aromatic spices like cardamom or saffron and embrace nuts too.

Some candy lassi are served with many extra components. In Punjab, for instance, lassi are served in large glasses with 2 to three tablespoons of makhan (unsalted white butter) on prime.

Mix this with the already thick consistency of lassi, and you’ll think about how filling this should be! The lassi is so heavy that you simply can not have any meal or meals later.

A spoon is normally served with Punjabi lassi, in order that first you could have the gentle and buttery makhan, then you possibly can drink the lassi as a beverage. However when you’re in search of a lassi recipe that’s a bit lighter, this easy, candy lassi is for you.

About Salty Lassi

The salted model of lassi is a contrasting variation to the favored candy lassi. This salty lassi is spiced and flavored with black salt, roasted cumin powder and garnished with mint leaves.

Should you just like the sulfurous hints of black salt in drinks then you definitely may like this lassi. If you’re not capable of get black salt, then merely use the common desk salt or edible rock salt.

A variation to this lassi, is to mix some mint leaves with yogurt and you’ve got good refreshing Mint lassi. Some folks additionally make this lassi merely with yogurt, water and salt.

The earthy cumin and the aromatic mint assist in digestion and likewise add loads of taste to the salty lassi.

Whilst you might imagine that salted lassi and Chaas (Indian Buttermilk) look the identical, however they aren’t. Salted lassi has a thick consistency not like buttermilk which has a thinner consistency.

About Masala Lassi

A spiced model of Lassi known as as Masala Lassi has a number of spices included in it. I share a candy model of Masala lassi and never the salted variation.

These few spices like black pepper, inexperienced cardamoms and nutmeg, they overpower the flavors of the yogurt.

You solely have to crush the inexperienced cardamoms within the mortar-pestle. Crush the pepper in a pepper-mill or mortar-pestle. And grate the nutmeg utilizing a tremendous grater or a zester.

One among our mates would make this for us. She would use palm sugar (palm jaggery) as a sweetener and it could give an an earthy and an intense taste to the drink. Palm jaggery additionally enhances the flavour of the spices within the lassi.

If palm sugar is just not accessible, change with our Indian jaggery or uncooked sugar or white sugar.

To make masala lassi, merely mix all the things in a blender or mixer. Use chilled yogurt so that you simply shouldn’t have to refrigerate the lassi later and you’ll omit including the ice cubes.

Step-by-Step Information

Methods to Make Candy Lassi Recipe

Earlier than you start be sure that the entire milk curd (yogurt) is recent and never gone bitter. I all the time make lassi with do-it-yourself curd.

After the curd is properly set and completed, I preserve it within the fridge for a number of hours in order that it will get chilly.

Crush Inexperienced Cardamoms

1. First, in a mortar, take 8 to 10 inexperienced cardamom pods and crush them frivolously. Then take away the husk and crush the seeds.

You possibly can skip these first two steps if utilizing pre-made floor cardamom. Add about 1 teaspoon of floor cardamom to yogurt whereas mixing.

2. Now crush the seeds to a tremendous powder.

Whisk Curd or Yogurt

3. Then in a bowl or pan, take 2 cups recent chilled yogurt or do-it-yourself curd.

4. Subsequent, with a handheld wood churner (known as madani in Hindi) or an immersion blender or a wired whisk, whip the curd till it turns into clean.

5. The curd must be clean earlier than you add different components to it.

Sweeten the Curd and Churn

6. Now add 4 to five tablespoons sugar or as wanted.

7. Pour 1 cup chilly water or chilly milk when you desire. For a thicker lassi, add ½ cup of water or milk or don’t add any liquids. For a thinner consistency, add 1.5 cups water or milk.

8. Now start to churn or mix the lassi combination with the wood churner or immersion blender or wired whisk

9. Carry on churning, mixing or whisking till the sugar dissolves and also you see a pleasant frothy layer on prime.

Other than utilizing utilizing a wired whisk or an immersion blender, one other technique is so as to add the lassi components in a blender. Then mix till clean and frothy.

10. Within the beneath photograph you can see a very good frothy layer on prime.

Add Flavors & Serve Lassi

11. Now add 1 teaspoon of the crushed cardamom powder and 10 to 12 crushed saffron strands.

12. Combine properly. Do a style check and add extra sugar if wanted.

13. Pour lassi in tall glasses and serve. You possibly can add ice cubes to your lassi when you desire.

Garnish with a pinch or two of floor cardamom powder, 2 to three crushed saffron strands or chopped nuts. Serve this candy lassi recipe straightaway.

Some folks retailer it within the fridge for 1 to 2 days. Should you plan to maintain it within the fridge then don’t add ice cubes.

Step-by-Step Information

Methods to make Salty Lassi

1. Take 2.5 cups yogurt in a bowl or pan.

2. Add 1 cup water to the yogurt. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon black salt and 1.5 teaspoon roasted cumin powder.

Should you don’t have black salt then you possibly can substitute it with common salt or edible rock salt in accordance with your style preferences.

Tip: To make your personal roasted floor cumin, merely dry roast cumin seeds in a small frying pan or skillet till aromatic. When cooled, grind the toasty crispy seeds in a spice-grinder or in a mortar-pestle.

3. With a wired whisk mix all the things properly until clean and frothy. Once more right here I’ve used the normal Indian handheld wood blender, often known as madani. You should utilize an electrical blender.

Do verify the style of the salty lassi and add extra salt or floor cumin if wanted in accordance with your preferences.

4. Pour in glasses. Garnish with mint leaves and serve salted lassi. Ice cubes may be added or you need to use chilled yogurt and water to make the salty model.

A lightweight sprinkle of roasted floor cumin, purple chilli powder or cayenne pepper and chaat masala on the lassi additionally tastes good.

Masala Lassi Recipe

1. In a blender take 2 cups chilled curd (yogurt), crushed seeds from 3 to 4 inexperienced cardamons, ¼ teaspoon crushed black pepper, 1 to 2 pinches of grated nutmeg, 2 tablespoons chopped almonds or cashews or pistachios or a mixture of all three nuts.
2. Add 10 to 12 saffron strands and 5 to six tablespoons chopped palm sugar (palm jaggery) or jaggery or sugar. Add about ⅓ to ½ cup water.
3. Mix till clean and frothy. Examine the style and if wanted add extra palm sugar and mix once more. Serve straightaway topped with a number of saffron strands or chopped nuts.

Serving Ideas

Serve lassi as a refreshing drink throughout daytime or you possibly can select to serve it as a drink after any Indian meal.

When serving candy lassi, garnish with some chopped nuts like pistachios or almonds.

Salty lassi may be topped with recent mint or coriander leaves and a light-weight sprinkling of roasted cumin powder, purple chilli powder (cayenne pepper) or chaat masala.

Storage

Retailer your leftover lassi it within the fridge for 1 to 2 days. No want so as to add ice cubes when you plan to retailer.

Knowledgeable Suggestions

• Flavorings for candy lassi: For the candy lassi recipe, you possibly can add both cardamom powder or rose water and even together with each these flavoring components collectively work properly. You could possibly additionally select to skip or embrace saffron in your candy lassi recipe. Omit including any of the flavoring components when you shouldn’t have them.
• Consistency: The consistency of all of the three lassi recipe is neither thick nor skinny. For a thinner consistency, add barely extra water however don’t add lots of water as this may dilute the flavors and the sweetness or saltiness within the lassi. For a thicker lassi, add much less water or don’t add water in any respect.
• Sweeteners: For candy lassi, sugar is the popular alternative of sweetener. However you possibly can decide so as to add palm sugar (as I’ve completed within the masala lassi) or coconut sugar or jaggery. 
• Freshness: For the perfect lassi expertise ensure to make use of entire milk curd that has not gone bitter. The curd or yogurt must be recent, chilly and never rancid. I all the time make lassi with freshly set do-it-yourself curd and preserve it the fridge for a few hours to make it chilly.
• Scaling: All the three lassi recipes may be doubled or tripled to make a big batch.

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This Lassi recipe from the weblog archives first revealed in Might 2012 has been up to date and republished on April 2023.