What is Lassi ?

Lassi is a traditional yogurt based drink made in North India, Punjab and Pakistan. There are many variations, sweet and salty flavors of this Indian drink and it can be made by using seasonal ingredients as well like mango rose lassi, dhabha style sweet lassi, cucumber lassi

I remember in my childhood days, my granny made lassi, and it was churned using a wooden hand whisk and a nice froth would collect on top due to churning it. 

Still my father made lassi using a wooden hand whisk, I also did but now these days, made with ease of a blender, it’s very easy and quick to make equally delicious lassi within seconds.

Course : Summer Drinks / Beverages
Cuisine : Indian
Prep Time : 5 minutes
Cook Time : 5 minutes
Total Time : 10 minutes
Servings : 4 short glasses enough for 2 persons
Author : Jolly Makkar

Ingredients:

Homemade Curd/Yogurt - 1 cup

Thandai Masala Powder - 2 tablespoon Full Fat Milk - 1 cup Sugar - 2 tablespoon (according to tate) Rooh Afza/Rose Syrup - 2 tablespoon Tutti-frutti for garnish Ice cubes

INSTRUCTIONS :

1. Add chilled curd to a mixer jar and sugar. Blend until smooth.

2. Add rooh afza syrup, thandai powder, milk ( I first boiled, cooled the milk) Blend until frothy and creamy. 

3. Serve it in short glasses with 1 ice cubes and garnish with tutti frutti or thandai powder.

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It has a unique flavor of taste and a fresh aroma also. It is a blend of spices, specifically for to use of sweet desserts during the festival occasion of Holi and maha shivaratri.  

Here are some more homemade Powder recipes, that you can make with simple ingredients – Sambar Powder, Tandoori masala powder, barbeque tandoori masala

Checkout the Video Recipe

Thandai is a very popular drink in North India made with a combination of nuts and spices, very refreshing and summer cooler drink. 

• This Thandai Masala Powder is,
• 
  
• Easy & quick
• Yummy
• Better than the store-bought masala
• Prepared with high-quality ingredients
• Perfect to store in Summers
• 

or If you are making a lassi with thandai powder, add thandai mix into lassi & flavored with saffron, dry fruits and rooh afza.

You can store the thandai masala in a sealed glass container in the refrigerator for about 4 to 6 months or 1 month on room temperature. Make sure you put on the lid again tightly, after using the powder.

Also make sure your spoon is dry, while putting it inside the jar to take out the powder.

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INGREDIENTS

Course: Beverage

Cuisine: Indian 

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes

Servings: a small cup

Author : Jolly Makkar

INGREDIENTS :

Almonds - 10 pieces

Cashew nuts - 8 pieces

Melon seeds - 1 tbsp

Black pepper corn - 8 to 10

Fennel seeds - 1 and 1/2 tsp

Green Cardamom - 4 pods

Saffron a pinch

INSTRUCTIONS :

1. Roast the nuts - almonds, cashew-nuts and melon seeds on a low flame till the melon seeds pop up about 3 minutes.

2. Then on the same pan without flame ON roast the black pepper corn, fennel seeds and green cardamom.

3. Once the dry fruits cool down, then add everything into a grinder jar by adding a pinch of saffron. Grind it to a coarse fine powder. 

4. Remove from the grinder and Store masala into a air-tight container for future purpose.

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Mohabbat Ka Sharbat or Pyaar Mohabbat Ka Sharbat is a famous, refreshing and delicious summer drink from the streets of Old Delhi. This is a 5 ingredient beverage and can be made in no time. 

This is a perfect drink to consume in summers... that can give you relief from super hot sunny day. This sharbat is very popular during Ramzan and Eid. 

Watermelon is my favorite fruit during summer, so I usually bring from market, after consuming two times still watermelon is still in fridge so thought what to make from this watermelon. I had usually made watermelon popsicle, slushie, or granita but wanted to try this summer something different. 

Recently I saw one series on Netflix where they can show street food of every country, I saw this from India series …you know sometimes when we see something in tv e usually think we can make it in a jiffy. 

So when I remembered this beautiful drink called Pyar Mohabbat ka Sharbat so I have made it and thankfully i had all the ingredients in my fridge, thanks to Bangalore summer.😰😰

This is an great drink loaded with the goodness of watermelon, rooh afza, chilled milk, sugar and ice cubes. If you don't like rooh afza or sometimes it's not available, you can try with rose syrup or rose squash also. 

Healthy benefits of Eating Watermelon 

2. It also helps hydrate your body during the hot summer.

3. The high amount of water in watermelons also stimulates a release of excess liquid in the form of sweat, which cools your body further during hot summer days.

4. Watermelon is made up of 92% water and is effective in reducing both your body temperature and blood pressure.

CHECK MORE WATERMELON RECIPE FROM MY BLOG

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This beautiful pink colored drink is popular in the streets of Old Delhi or Purani Dilli Pyaar Mohabbat Sharbat is available all through the summer at Nawab Qureshi's stall near to Jama Masjid, Delhi who sell this drink for just hardly 10-20 rupees per glass. 

For more Summer Special Recipes on the blog

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SWEET LASSI

Next time you head out towards old Delhi, do stop by for refreshing does of this summer cooler. 

Course: Beverage
Cuisine: Indian
Prep Time: 5 minutes 
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Servings :4 people
Author : Jolly Makkar

Ingredients:

1 cup Chilled Milk

2 tablespoon Sugar

2 tbsp Rose Syrup

1/2 cup Watermelon Juice

1/2 cup Watermelon chunks(chopped)

1/2 cup Chilled Water

Rose Petals (to garnish)

Ice Cubes (as required)

Preparation Method :

1. Mix chilled milk, sugar and rose syrup in a bowl.

2. Add watermelon juice, chopped watermelon and chilled water and mix well.

3. Add ice cubes and garnish with rose petals.

4. Serve immediately.

Notes

You can increase or decrease the amount of sugar as per your taste.

This recipe is a part of A to Z recipe challenge, we choose key ingredients alphabetically to cook and post a dish every month. This month it was alphabet time THE LETTER "W" so I choose my key ingredients WATERMELON and make this easy and health Rose Watermelon Drink 

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO RECIPE OF MOHABBAT KA SHARBAT

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Vanilla Cake is a simple and classic cake recipe made with vanilla essence and chocolate chips, ready in under 60 minutes. An easy Vanilla Cake with a soft and moist crumb and great vanilla flavor. This Vanilla cake recipe is the perfect base for a birthday cake or any special occasion.

I made cake at home in almost every occasions or sometimes no occasions required to bake a cake...me, and my whole family are big fan of homemade cakes. So, I usually bake once in 15 days mostly banana and carrot cake, but this time I made my own favorite Classic Vanilla Cake.

CAN I ADD OIL OIL INSTEAD OF BUTTER IN A CAKE

If you run out of butter, then you can replace it with canola oil or olive oil for this vanilla cake, but if you use butter in the cake helps keep moist and light. 

Adding butter into cake adds some flavor to the cake that won't be there if you don't use it or replace it with oil.

TIPS FOR MAKING VANILLA CAKE 

1. After the homemade vanilla cake comes out of the oven, make sure it cools down completely BEFORE SLICING.

2. If you’re having trouble with your vanilla cake sticking to the cake pans once they’re done baking, try lining the bottom of the cake pan with a piece of parchment paper. Trace the bottom of the pan on the parchment paper, then cut out the circle and it should fit exactly.

3. Make sure you sift together your dry ingredients before adding them to the cake, to make sure everything is evenly dispersed before adding to the wet ingredients. If you don’t have a sifter, you can whisk your dry ingredients together but the texture might be slightly less light in the final cake.

4. For this vanilla cake recipe, make sure you bring the butter and eggs to room temperature before starting. This will make it much easier to evenly mix everything together.

5. I always use salted butter, so I can add a pinch of salt in as it necessary. If you want to use unsalted butter, you would add salt more salt to the dry ingredients.

6. Try topping this vanilla cake recipe with a few tablespoons of powdered sugar and your favorite ingredients like choco chips, berries, strawberries etc..

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes 

Resting Time: 45 minutes 

Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Skill Level: Easy/Medium

Cuisine: American

Course: Dessert

Servings: 10 slices of cake

Author: Jolly Makkar

US Customary - Metric

Ingredients :

1+ 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 Tbsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup butter softened

3/4 cups granulated sugar

2 large eggs room temperature

2 tsp pure vanilla extract

1/2 cup buttermilk or plain milk (add 2 drops of vinegar to make instant buttermilk) room temperature

1/4 cup Choco chips (optional)

Equipment required

bowl

spatula

hand mixer/hand whisker

cake tin

butter paper/parchment paper

Preparation Method :

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F. Butter and flour 9" cake pan, tapping out excess flour or I used parchment paper on below of the cake paper so it won't stick from down.

2. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Set flour mixture aside.

3. In a large mixing bowl using an electric hand mixer (or stand mixer), beat butter and sugar on medium-high speed for 2-3 minutes until thick and fluffy, scraping down the bowl as needed.

4. Add 2 eggs, one at a time, beating well with each addition then scrape down the bowl. Add 2 tsp vanilla extract and beat to combine.

5. Reduce hand mixer to medium speed and add the flour mixture in thirds alternating with the 1/2 cup of room temperature buttermilk or milk, allowing the flour and buttermilk or milk to incorporate with each addition. 

6. Scrape down the bowl as needed and beat until just combined and smooth. Lastly add choco chips for more colors on cake, vanilla and choco chip are made for each other 😀

7. Spread out the batter into the pans smoothing out the tops with a spatula. Bake on the center or lower rack at 350˚F for 28-30 minutes. Rest in cake pan for 10 minutes then run a knife or thin spatula around the edges to loosen and turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

8. Sprinkle some powdered sugar on top. Slice it and serve it.

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One of the best ways to enjoy summer is drinking a cold and refreshing smoothie made from fresh ingredients. I’m definitely a smoothie lover as it’s so easy to make with bunch of ingredients into my blender and in 30 seconds amazing drink is ready.

It's easy, wholesome recipe and very creamy with a perfect sweetner. It's a perfect smoothie! 

Smoothies have been my go-to snack this week as in Bangalore weather it hot so not to make anything else. This smoothies is cold, refreshing and healthy, and what you preferred in a hot day. It is simple and made with only 4 ingredients.

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Want to know what’s in this delicious smoothie? Just a handful of fresh ingredients, including:

fresh Strawberries

banana

Curd/Yogurt

milk

honey(its optional)

I love smoothies with combination of another ingredients. Earlier I have watermelon banana smoothie combo, that is also yummy another recipe.

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It truly is as easy as adding the strawberries, frozen banana, milk and yogurt, honey as a sweetner (if your strawberries little bit sour, so I used honey). 

For curd : I used homemade curd/yogurt and you can use dairy free yogurt.

For milk: I used full fat regular milk or you can use any milk also

Add everything to your blender and blending until nice and creamy. Your perfect consistency smoothie is ready to drink!

Cook Time: 0 min
Prep Time: 3 minutes
Total Time: Less than 5 minutes
Serves: 2 glass
Category: Beverage/Smoothie
Cuisine: American

[ 1 cup =240 ml, 1 tsp = 5ml, 1 tbsp = 15ml]

Ingredients :

1 cups fresh strawberries, halved and chilled in a freezer for 10 minutes

1 banana, quartered and chilled in a freezer for 10 minutes

3 tablespoon Curd/Greek Yogurt/ Yogurt

1 cup milk

2 tablespoon honey as a sweetner(totally optional)

Preparation Method :

1. Add all ingredients to a high powered blender and blend until smooth.

Check out the video recipe of the best Strawberry Banana Smoothie

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This is one of the easiest and my all-time favorite homemade pizza dough recipe. With juts few ingredients and no fancy flours required. No need to ferment for longer period in just 1 to 2 hours to rise and about 10 minutes of kneading. How interesting isn't?

We make pizza at least once a week. This recipe for pizza crust from scratch can be made the day you want to use it or made ahead and frozen. It has become one of our favorite pizza dough recipes and it is very versatile.

This recipe has been tried and tested it many times in my kitchen, making the best homemade pizza. My family like homemade pizza better than to take out!

If you’re uncomfortable working with yeast or making your own pizza dough at home, rather than to go for outside pizza base or pizza crust. I’ll walk you through every step of the process in my video just below the recipe. You’ve got this! 

Yeast baking isn’t all that scary or hard, that's my personal experience i used to watch photos and recipes among social media and always think to make it. But afraid from inside, but once I used to take risk on it, I am more confident to work with yeast. So you can make your own super simple pizza crust at home in a matter of hours, no fancy ingredients required.

This pizza dough is made with all-purpose flour. I have tried with half-half of whole wheat and all purpose flour or simply with wheat flour too. So you can opt out this flour with your favorite flour. It turns out perfect every time.

We are a pizza loving family. Who doesn't love the pizza nowadays except our elder generation  but nowadays they also move out according to the time. 

You can even try more appetizers recipe for get together or kitty parties or party snacks

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barbecue macaroni salad

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Check out the detailed video here

Prep Time: 20 mins
Proofing Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hour 20  mins
Yield: 2 balls of dough, 24 slices 
Category: Main Dish
Cuisine: Italian

[ 1 cup =240 ml, 1 tsp = 5ml, 1 tbsp = 15ml]

INGREDIENTS for 2 large Pizza : 

All Purpose Flour/Maida- 3 cups + 2 tablespoon for dust

Sugar - 2 teaspoon 

Salt - 1/2 teaspoon

Instant Dry Yeast- 1 and 1/4th teaspoon

Warm water - 1 cup

Olive Oil/Vegetable Oil- 2 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon for fermenting

Preparation Method :

1. Start by combining warm water with your yeast and some sugar. It should start to froth up after a few minutes. If it doesn’t, toss it and start again. You water may be too warm or your yeast may be bad. Once it’s frothy, add in the vegetable oil.

2. Combine the salt and the flour, and start adding the flour to the mixer, the dough will still look pretty wet and sticky. It will not pull away from the sides of the bowl by itself, but you should be able to scrape it down with a spatula.

3. Knead the dough and add more flour as needed so it’s not sticky.

4. Grease a large bowl. I usually just pour some vegetable oil or olive oil in the bottom of the bowl, then scrape the dough out into the bowl. Add some oil on top so the dough won't be dry!

5. Cover the dough with a towel or cling wrap and allow it to rise until it is double in size. This usually takes about an hour,  I kept 2 hours for better results depending on how warm the house is. I will often put the bowl in the oven with just the oven light on, which tends to give it a good temperature for rising.

6. Sprinkle some flour on a work surface. Lightly punch the dough down, then turn it out onto the floured surface.

7. Use floured hands to start pulling the dough up and around, gathering the ends together and forming a smooth ball on one side. Turn the ball over, so the top now is smooth.

8. Divide the ball into 2 equal portions. You can weigh them to keep them even, or I almost always just eyeball it.

9. Voila! Your pizza dough is ready for baking. If the dough is still a bit sticky when you go to roll it out, just sprinkle on a little more flour. I like to actually use my hands to stretch the dough first and then use rolling pin.

10. Use the dough to bake up your pizza with your favorite toppings!

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