Kesar Sweet Lassi | Summer Special Recipes

Lassi tastes good, smooth and creamy flavored with the good blend of cardamom and sugar, apt and good relish for this hot summer.  Prepared It Very easier and fast, with base ingredients.

Ingredients:

Fresh thick Curd / Yogurt – 1 cup (chilled)

Sugar – 1 tbsp

Salt - a pinch

Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp

Saffron strands few

Chilled Water – ¼ cup

Warm Milk – 1 tbsp

Ice Cubes few (optional)

Method:

• Soak the saffron in warm milk and crush it well.
• Add Curd, Water, Sugar, Cardamom powder, saffron & Ice cubes in a blender until smooth and frothy.

Pour into the glasses and Serve Chilled.

Note:

• Don’t add more ice cubes and then the lassi will get diluted.
• To get thin consistency adds little milk while blending.

Yogurt Oatmeal Smoothie

Oats are these days is increasingly a part of morning cereal breakfast, which fights against high cholesterol and heart diseases. It is great smoothies to kick start the day. It’s not only rich in nutrition and also very filling.

Ingredients :

Quick cooking oats - 2 tbsp
Banana - 1
Yogurt / curd -1/2 cup (homemade yogurt)
Honey - for taste
Ice cubes - few
Vanilla ice cream - 1 scoop
Nuts - few(chopped finely)

Method :

Chop the banana roughly.
Blend banana, oats, yogurt, honey and ice cubes and blend until smooth texture.
Serve chill with scoop of vanilla ice cream and chopped nuts on top.
Enjoy the soothing smoothie... : )

Tips:

• Replace the yogurt with milk also to make smoothie.
• You can also add almond or vanilla essence few drops instead of vanilla ice cream.
• Yogurt should be fresh.
• You could try with other fruits like strawberry, apple.