Mango, Pineapple, and Coconut Lassi and Moong Dal Khaman

One more lassi with a really cool and refreshing taste.

This combination is so good, that I would like to have it all year round.

I used:

2 cups yogurt whisked

1 mango

1 cup pineapple cubed (canned or fresh )

2 tbsp coconut cream ( look here and here for the info)

few mint leaves for garnish

Sugar is optional as the fruits and cream of coconut already have sugar so you might want to check before adding any extra sugar! I didn't add any sugar.

Blend everything together in blender except the mint leaves. Serve chilled.

I blended mint together in half of the lassi and the taste was out of this world. Really good!

For the Moong Dal Khaman:

It's the same recipe as "Chana Daal Khaman" except that you replace chana daal with Moong Daal and add some cracked black pepper to the batter.

The ingredients for tempering are also the same.

This is the special khaman that you will find in Ahmedabad and they are sooooo good!!

Bitter gourd curry and Peach lassi with cayenne pepper

The inspiration for this recipe comes from Kajal's post about the same curry.
I haven't changed the recipe a bit except that I didn't fry the bitter gourd.
I just peeled the bitter gourd a bit, sliced and baked it in the oven till it was cooked crisp. I also made the sabji little dry as I was gonna eat it with roti and dal.

Thanks Kajal, it does taste really good.
See the recipe here

I know you must be thinking what a weird combination is this. But these were made on two separate days, just posted together

I love lassi with different combination and looking at the weather, I thought it was time to venture into a new lassi making session

This Peach Lassi is my entry for JFI for August -Chillies hosted by Nandita of Saffrontrail and brainchild of Indira.

Thanks Suganya of Tastypalettes for reminding me this.

For the Peach lassi:

1 cup canned peaches or 2 fresh peaches. (both works well)

2 cups yogurt

sugar to your taste

kewra essence few drops

a pinch of cayenne pepper

Blend everything together in a blender along with couple of ice cubes.

Yes cayenne pepper gives this a nice kick. You can use more if you really like the heat.

Warning: Do not use the Rose water with this Lassi as it would be a disaster, unless you are an adventurous soul, who can drink those combinations.

Mango and Strawberry Lassi

This is a cool and refreshing drink for summer. I love any kind of lassi. So come summer and I make this every other day as I drink this as part of my lunch. I just love the combination of yogurt, ripe mango, Cardamom and Rose water with some sugar. But this time I thought that if I am mixing strawberries with mango, the Rose water and Cardamom might not go well with it, so I used Orange Blossom water instead of rose water and cardamom.
For anyone who doesn't know what Lassi is, it is an Indian yogurt drink (like smoothie). Plain lassi is made of yogurt, cardamom and sugar blended. To make different lassis you can add different fruits to the basic yogurt lassi while blending.

1 ripe mango peeled and chopped
5-6 strawberries
2 cups yogurt
sugar to taste
1 tbsp orange blossom water.

Blend everything in the blender. Serve chilled.

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What I did was I made two separate lassi, one with mango and one with strawberry and then poured them one after another in the serving glass.