Desi Drinks

A cold Desi drink cools the meal down and gives the spice somewhere to land. This hub gathers every drink on the site, and the dishes each one pairs with.

Drink recipes

Mango Lassi Recipe - Restaurant-Style in 10 Minutes — mango, yogurt and milk blended thick and cold, ready in 10 minutes.

What to pair it with

Crispy Pakora Recipe: Pakistani Mixed Vegetable Fritters — pakora and lassi is a classic snack pairing.
Tandoori Chicken Recipe — Smoky Oven Tandoori at Home — cold lassi against smoky, charred tandoori.

The drinks that follow are the rest of the Desi drinks shelf. Sweet lassi is the same yogurt-and-milk base as mango lassi without the fruit; salted lassi swaps the sugar for salt and a pinch of roasted cumin and is served with lunch rather than dessert; masala chai is black tea simmered with milk, cardamom, ginger and sugar; Kashmiri chai is pink tea made with green tea, milk and crushed nuts. Those recipes will be added here as they publish.