Published: by Absolutely Recipes, in the Indian recipes category.

Lassi Recipe.

Ingredients:

2 Cups curd or yogurt
3/4 to 1 cup water (adjust as desired)
for sweet lassie
3 to 4 tbsp sugar (more to taste)
1/2 to 3/4 tsp cardamom powder (ground cardamoms, elaichi powder)
1 tsp rose water optional
1 pinch saffron strands (kesar)optional
1 tbsp chopped nuts for garnish, optional
for salted lassi
1/2 tsp roasted cumin powder (roasted jeera powder)
1/4 to 1/2 tsp salt (use as needed)
2 pinches chaat masala (for garnish, optional)
for mint lassi
1/2 to 3/4 cup mint or pudina (use as needed)
1/2 tsp cumin powder or roasted jeera powder
2 tbsp lemon juice (use as needed)
1 tbsp sugar (optional)
1/4 to 1/2 tsp salt (or as needed)
1/4 green chili deseeded (optional)

Recipe Instructions:

Chill the curd and water in the refrigerator.
If you want to use saffron, soak it in 2 tbsps hot milk and let it rest for sometime.
Add curd to a large bowl.
Whisk it well to break up lumps & make it smooth.
To make sweet lassi
if you do not have cardamom powder, then add few cardamoms to a spice jar and powder them.
To make a fine powder quickly you can also add few tbsp of sugar and powder them.
Add sugar, cardamom powder and saffron to the smooth yogurt.
Whisk well.
Pour water and whisk until very frothy.
Taste test and add more water or sugar if needed.
Transfer to serving glasses and garnish with chopped nuts.
To make salt lassi
if you do not have cumin or jeera powder, just dry roast cumin on a low flame until aromatic.
Cool and make a fine powder in a spice jar.
Add salt and cumin powder to the whisked yogurt.
Whisk and pour water.
Whisk again until frothy.
To make mint lassie
pour curd, water, salt, sugar, mint leaves, lemon juice and chili to a blender.
Blend until frothy.
Pour to serving glasses.
Best served chilled.

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