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Friday 11 November 2011

Masala More / Spicy Butter Milk

This is a very healthy and nutritious drink , very useful to quench thirst.  Intake of Butter milk on regular basis is very good for health and this also acts as a effective diet menu with less calorific value. This spicy butter milk has an enhanced taste that most of us would really love to have this as a summer drink too. And most of all, this is so easy to make…
Ingredients:
  1. Curd: 2 Big Ladles
  2. Water: 400 ml
  3. Green Chilly: 1/4th of a big green chilly
  4. Ginger: very small tiny piece (same size as green chilly)
  5. Curry Leaves: 10
  6. Corinader leaves: few
  7. Salt
  8. Asafoedita
  9. Mustard: ½ tsp
  10. Jeera: 4
  11. Oil: ½ tsp
Preparation Procedure:
  1. Grind the following with little water in the form of paste: Green chilly, ginger, 5 curry leaves and few coriander leaves and keep it aside
  2. In a vessel, add 2 ladles of curd and with a Thayir Mathu / curd beater stir it well. Add water and stir well again.
  3. Add salt and the grinded paste and asafoedita
  4. In a kadai, add ½ tsp oil and season mustard and while it starts spluttering, add 4 jeera and switch kadai and add this kadai contents to the butter milk.. Add the remaining curry and coriander leaves
Spicy Butter Milk is all ready to serve…you can consume it as such or serve chilled.

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