Summer Recipe- Beat The Summer Heat With Beetroot Chaas

A great summer cooler and its healthy with the addition of beetroot.Beetroot chaas is also called as chukandar chaas.Beetroot chaas is just a blend of yogurt with beets and spices

Beetroot chaas is a refreshing,healthy and tasty drink for summer.Chukandar in hindi means ‘beets‘ and chaas is a yogurt based drink or to make it simple its buttermilk.The drink has a very mild sweetness which comes naturally from beets which I loved the most.

Ingredients

1 cup thick chilled curd
1/4th of a small beetroot (1/4 cup roughly chopped)
5 nos mint leaves
a tiny piece of ginger
1/2 tsp jeera
a pinch of roasted jeera powder
a tiny pinch of black salt
1/2 cup water

Method

* Peel the skin from beets, chop it roughly.Take it in a sauce pan and add water.

* Cook until beets turn soft, no need to become mushy.

* If you prick with knife it should easily run inside.Set aside and cool down completely.

* Take it in a blender along with the cooked water, add mint leaves,ginger and jeera.

* Blend it well until its semi smooth.

* Take curd in a mixing bowl.Strain beets puree, press it well with a spoon so that the juice is extracted well.

* Mix it with a spoon.Add black salt.Use a blender to blend once.

* Pour in serving glass and serve with a sprinkle of jeera powder.