Piyush Drink | Piyush Recipe
Piyush is a luscious, dense sweet beverage created from a blend of shrikhand, yogurt, and milk. It serves as a refreshing summer cooling drink.
Ingredients
- 200 gram shrikhand – about 1 cup, (cardamom, saffron or cardamom-saffron flavored shrikhand)
- 1.5 cups Curd (yogurt) – fresh and cold or at room temperature
- ¾ to 1 cup milk – cold or at room temperature
- 2 to 3 tablespoons sugar or as required
- 2 to 3 green cardamoms powdered in a mortar-pestle to a fine powder
- ¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg or ground nutmeg powder
- 6 to 7 pistachios (unsalted) – sliced
- 1 to 2 pinches saffron strands
Instructions
- First take the shrikhand, yogurt, milk, sugar, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder in a mixing bowl.
- With a hand held blender or a wired whisk or a madani (traditional hand held indian churner), just blend everything well till smooth and creamy.
- You can also blend in a jar in an electric blender. Keep the piyush in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours for it to get chilled.
- If you have made the drink with cold shrikhand, curd and milk, then after blending, you can serve it straightaway.
- A suggestion is to add 2 tbsp sugar first. If the sweetness is less, then you can add 1 tbsp sugar later.
- Pour the chilled piyush in glasses, and top with pistachio or almond slices and saffron.
- Serve immediately. You can also keep the piyush for a day in the refrigerator.
Nutrition
Calories: 156kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 8gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 28mgSodium: 159mgPotassium: 375mgFiber: 1gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 354IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 286mgIron: 2mg
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