Sweet lassi recipe Summer cool drink
Sweet lassi recipe / mithi lassi is a cool frothy drink for hot summer days. This drink recipe is a easy and quick to make. The basic sweet lassi takes only a few seconds. Sweet Lassie or ‘mithi lassi’ is made with fresh yogurt & is cooling to your body in the hot summer afternoon.
Equipment
- 1 blender or hand blender metal chutner/beater, whisk etc.
Ingredients
How to make sweet lassi recipe
Ingredients to make 2 glasses of sweet lassi:
- 1 cup chilled plain fresh curd yogurt
- 1 cup cold water or milk
- sugar to taste
- Ice cubes
- Thick cream optional – 2 tbsp
- dry fruit thin pieces almond/badam for topping – optional – 1 tsp
Instructions
Making sweet Lassi
- Add yogurt, water and sugar to the blender.
- Blend well till frothy.
- Pour in glasses and top with thick fresh cream.
Tips and variations to sweet lassi
- For low fat sweet lassi, use low fat plain yogurt and omit sugar or add less sugar. Or add a healthier sweetener of your choice.
- You may add the ice cubes or ice shavings to the blender itself while blending.
- As sweetener, you may add your favorite fruit syrup, bee’s honey, maple syrup to lassi
- You may add your favorite flavoring such as cardamom powder or cardamom extract, rose syrup, rose water or rose extract, saffron extract etc. while blending.
- Keep fresh yogurt in fridge before making lassi.
- Will keep yogurt fresh and lassi will be very chilled.You may also keep the lassi in the fridge after making.
- You can served the chilled lassi as and when you want.
- Sweet lassi will keep good in the fridge for 2-3 days. After that the taste may change a little.
Notes
Tips and variations to sweet lassi
- For low fat sweet lassi, use low fat plain yogurt and omit sugar or add less sugar. Or add a healthier sweetener of your choice.
- You may add the ice cubes or ice shavings to the blender itself while blending.
- As sweetener, you may add your favorite fruit syrup, bee’s honey, maple syrup to lassi
- You may add your favorite flavoring such as cardamom powder or cardamom extract, rose syrup, rose water or rose extract, saffron extract etc. while blending.
- Keep fresh yogurt in fridge before making lassi.
Will keep yogurt fresh and lassi will be very chilled. - You may also keep the lassi in the fridge after making.
- You can served the chilled lassi as and when you want.
- Sweet lassi will keep good in the fridge for 2-3 days. After that the taste may change a little.