piyush recipe - thick, creamy sweet beverage made with shrikhand, yogurt and milk. summer cooling drink.

piyush recipe – thick, creamy sweet beverage made with shrikhand, yogurt and milk. 

summer cooling drink.

 

  Recipe type: dessert, beverage 

 

  Cuisine: maharashtrian, gujarati 

 

  Serves: 2-3 

  Ingredients (measuring cup used, 1 cup = 250 ml) 200 gms shrikhand – about 1 cup, cardamom, 

 saffron or cardamom-saffron flavored shrikhand 

 1.5 cups yogurt/curd 

 ¾ to 1 cup milk 

 2 to 3 tbsp sugar or as required 

2-3 green cardamom, 

powdered in a mortar-pestle to a fine powder 

 ¼ tsp grated nutmeg or nutmeg powder 

 6 to 7 pistachios, 

 sliced 1 to 2 pinches of saffron 

  Instructions 1. first take the shrikhand, yogurt, milk, sugar, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder in a mixing bowl. 

 2. 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. 

 3. a suggestion is to add 2 tbsp sugar first. if the sweetness is less, then you can add 1 tbsp sugar later. 

 4. pour the chilled piyush in glasses, and top with pistachio or almond slices and saffron. 

 5. serve piyush immediately. you can also keep the piyush for a day in the refrigerator.