Learn About the Ingredients Needed for Banana Lassi

Series Summary

Indian Cuisine is part of a unique and rich cultural heritage that traces back to the Vedic period of India's history. Full of herbs and spices, Indian food has been influenced by the vegetarian roots of Hindu Ayurveda and Islamic cuisine of the Middle East. In India, food is not just food, but a distinguishing marker within India's intricate caste system. Ever since the 15th century, Indian spices have been traded throughout Europe and slowly has began to influence Western food culture. Today, it is not uncommon to go to Indian food restaurants or to find Indian spices in Western cuisine. In fact, Indian food has become a delicacy by sheik culture across the Western world. As such, it is important to know how to cook different Indian food recipes.

In this free video series, our expert Neha Ghera will teach you how to make a pomegranate and banana lassi. She will teach you all the necessary ingredients, how to cut the bananas and pomegranates, and how to add sugar and water to your pulp fruit blend. Neha will show you how to check the blend for sweetness and thickness, and show you how to add rosewater, yogurt, and milk to complete your pomegranate or banana lassi. She will even show you how to serve the lassi, so if you like smoothies, why not try something a little more ethnic and make yourself a lassi!

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Neha on behalf of Expert Village and today I'm going to tell you that how can you make a Banana Lassi. Well, banana shake is often a term which you have heard of many a times. I drink banana shake or I drank banana shake. But how you ever thought how a banana Lassi would taste? Well, it's not actually the milk into it, it's actually the yogurt taste which makes you like ooh! What a taste. So I'm going to tell you that how can you make banana Lassi just by sitting at tour home. Well, Lassi is one very simple and very tasty drink which is direct from the heart of India. It's very popular in India. Talk about a special state which is like Punjab. Lassi is from that only. You can make a very simple Lassi just by consisting of cumin seeds or a salt Lassi. But this is basically a fruit Lassi which is kind of very, very, very popular. So let's see that what kind of ingredients you need to have to make this Lassi. I need to have water, I need to have yogurt which is kind o f thick. I can see that it's very thick. You need to have water, you need to have milk, you need to have sugar which is like here. If you are kind of diabetic, you can have sugar free. You need to have rose water, of course it's rose water. And this is like the bananas. I think three bananas or two bananas would be enough."