Mint Chaas | Masala Chaas | Savory Buttermilk

Chaas is nothing but flavored buttermilk.During summer, buttermilk is quite popular across India and made in different flavors across the region. In Tamilnadu, it's called as Neer moor  and it's quite different from North Indian version of savory buttermilk, here we do basic tempering with oil,mustard & curry leaves and add into the buttermilk and i'm big fan of that tempered buttermilk.
But in North India,they add cumin powder into buttermilk to enhance the flavor. I love both version of buttermilk because of their unique flavor.Here in this recipe, i added few mint leaves into the buttermilk and it was super hit, the mild mint flavor in this buttermilk is so yummy and also wanting it more.As buttermilk is a natural coolant, having it during this summer helps you to keep hydrated and cool. Now let's see the recipe.

Mint Chaas

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 0 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Drinks | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients
Curd - 1/2 cup
Water - 3/4 cup
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Coriander leaves - few(optional)
Mint leaves - 2 to 3

Procedure

Add curd,cumin powder,coriander & mint leaves, salt and water into the mixie/blender jar and blend it well until it becomes frothy.
Tada, Your Mint Chaas is ready.

Notes:

• Instead of regular salt, you can use black salt also.
• You can add more or less of mint leaves as per your preference.
• You can omit mint leaves and make it as plain chaas.

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Neer Moor | Spicy Buttermilk | Masala Buttermilk

Neer moor or spicy butter milk is the excellent thirst quencer for the summer and it's really a good body coolant too. Neer moor or panagam always remember me the "Therottam" festival (car festival) in my city(Tirunelveli Town).During the car festival in Tirunelveli Town,all the shops in the four car streets (ratha veethi) are closed & lot of free stalls are opened  by individuals or by any organizations in the platform to distribute food, neer moor, panagam etc for the devotees on that particular day and it's really delicious to have that on scroching sunny day.
This post is being in draft for quite a long time and also it's been raining here for past 4 days,i couldn't get a single decent picture because of very low sunlight,so thought of posting this today.

Neer moor | Spicy Buttermilk

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 0 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Drinks | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients
Buttermilk - 2 cup
Green Chili - 1
Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
Curry leaves - 2
Coriander leave - 1/2 spring
Salt - to taste
To Temper
Oil - 1/2 tsp
Mustard - 1/4 tsp

Procedure

Take the buttermilk in a bowl, add the green chili,ginger,curry leaves and coriander leaves in the mixie jar, grind into coarse mixture.

Add the chili mixture into the buttermilk, add enough salt.Mix it well. Finally temper the ingredients listed under "To Temper" and add into buttermilk.

Tasty & cooling Buttermilk is ready.

Notes:

• If you don't have buttermilk, take 1 cup of curd and add 1 cup of water into it , whisk it well and proceed as above.
• Instead of grinding, you can also finely chop the ingredients and add it.
• Adjust the spiciness according to your taste.

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