Avocado lassi is a rich and creamy smoothie recipe, perfect for breakfast or after lunch drink which needs minimal ingredients to make this delicious goodness!
Avocado lassi
All you need is just 2 minutes of your time to make this amazing smoothie recipe with minimal ingredients, yogurt, avocado, cardamom, honey and milk. Okay! You can also call it as a breakfast avocado smoothie, since it’s wholesome and filled with lots of good vitamins and minerals! This avocado lassi is extremely creamy and velvety with amazing flavors of cardamom and rose water. Usually lassi’s are not thick but this avocado lassi is thick and rich, which makes it so special from other lassi recipes. You can use either straw or spoon to enjoy this avocado lassi, either way they taste just amazing!
A dessert after a good meal is indeed. Avocados are my favorites and I always stock up avocados like banana’s. Since this lassi recipe is very easy to make, I will make them very often. Over ripened avocados works like charm ! You can also consume this smoothie as a post workout drink after your Gym.
What do you mean by lassi?
Lassi is a popular traditional yogurt based drink that originated from India. Basically there are two types of lassi’s, salted lassi and sweet lassi.
Salted lassi drink is a blend of yogurt or buttermilk base, water and salt where as sweet lassi is a blend of yogurt, milk, cardamom, rosewater or kesar for flavor and sugar for sweetness. You can make wide variations from basic sweet lassi recipe by adding fruits to it like I did here.
Best season to make lassi
Usually summer is the best time to consume lassi’s since we don’t mind drinking a lots of fluids throughout the day. Lassi drink increases your digestive process, give lots of energy to your body and you will feel fresh. But you can have this avocado lassi drink throughout the year. In India avocados are known as butter fruits. Combining the butter fruit with the lassi makes it a flavorful Indian lassi!
Why this avocado lassi/smoothie is the BEST?
In US avocados are always in season, when you take this lassi in the morning for breakfast as a smoothie, you will feel energized the whole day. The recipe is loaded with probiotics and the yogurt in the drink helps the good bacteria to grow, this keeps your stomach free from any kind of stomach infections. And more importantly this healthy avocado smoothie helps to satisfy your hunger and keeps you full for a longer time.
How to serve avocado lassi?
Pour the lassi to a small glass and serve it chill. Adding some chopped nuts like pistachios, cashew, almonds make it extra richer and tastier.
Can I make this lassi drink vegan?
Yes, of course you make this recipe vegan. Replace the Greek yogurt to any non-diary yogurt and instead of milk, replace it by other non-diary milk such as almond milk, cashew milk or soy milk.
Health benefits of avocado
- Reduces risk of cardiovascular diseases.
- Aids maintaining healthy skin.
- It’s good for digestions.
- Great for eyes and good for bones.
- Reduces symptoms of Arthritis.
To know more about the health benefits of avocado, check here
Why Greek yogurt for the recipe?
As I have mentioned you can use any type of yogurt or non-diary yogurt for the recipe, but I have used Greek yogurt for the following health benefits.
- Greek yogurt is packed with proboitics.
- Vitamin B12 is necessary for energy and brain functions and Greek yogurt has lots if it.
- To boost your protein level Greek yogurt are the best.
- Greek yogurt is low in sodium and have high iodine content.
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How to pick a ripe avocado?
I know like me many might have that confusion in picking the right avocado. I have both experiences, picked the worst avocados that are getting spoils the very next day and unripe avocado that I have to wait for weeks to get it ripened. So here are some tips to pick the best avocado!
- Look for the color, if you have planned to make any recipe immediately with the avocado then look for the skin color which is darker (almost black) and hint of greens. If you planned to use them later, then select the one that’s greener than darker.
- Squeeze the avocados, if an avocado feels hard when pressed, then it hasn’t ripe yet.
If you feel the avocados little soft, then it’s the best ripen avocado.
To store the cut avocado, sprinkle them with lemon or lime juice and wrap it and place it in an airtight container and then refrigerate it.
Ingredients to make avocado lassi
Let’s see the ingredients to make the recipe. You need only 4 main ingredients to make this smoothie lassi recipe, other ingredients are optional.
Avocado: Avocado is known as butter fruit in India, they are the powerhouse of nutrients. A well ripened avocado works best for this lassi recipe.
Yogurt: I have used Greek yogurt for the recipe to make it extra creamier and richer, but a normal plain yogurt or low fat yogurt also works good.
Honey: For sweetness I have used honey in the recipe but you can also agave or maple syrup instead. Honey are less bad than sugar for diabetics and also good quality of honey are rich in antioxidants.
Milk: Milk is another most important ingredient in the recipe. If you want make thinner lassi then please use water instead of milk. I have used whole full fat milk but low fat or diary-free milk also works fine for this lassi recipe.
Cardamom: For a perfect sweet lassi the flavors of cardamom is must, use ground cardamom or crushed cardamom for the recipe. The smell of cardamom is just divine and it makes the authentic Indian lassi flavor.
Rose water (optional): Rose water is flavored water made by steeping rose petals in water. It gives excellent sweet flavor to the lassi recipe.
Pistachios (optional): Garnishing with some crunchy nuts at the end will definitely elevates any type desserts, including the avocado recipe.
How to make this delicious avocado lassi recipe
Let’s see how to make the recipe with step by step pictorial representations.
Began with slicing the avocado to half and remove the seed. With the help of the knife make a rough chop of the avocado.
In a blender or mixer jar add the chopped avocado chunks, followed by honey, rose water, crushed cardamom, milk and honey.
Blend everything together to a smooth consistency.
In less than 2 minutes the healthy and tasty avocado lassi is ready.
Transfer the lassi to a glass and enjoy while it is still refresh.
NOTES:
- Avocado lassi will be thicker in consistency but you can thin it out by adding extra water as you need.
- If you prefer you can add ice cubes to your blender jar while making this lassi.
- Instead of cardamom pods, you can use vanilla extract. The taste will be good too.
- Honey is my favorite sweetener to add it my smoothies, you can also add dates or sugar instead.
- Frozen avocado also works perfect for the recipe. Check here to see how to freeze avocado.
If you tried this avocado lassi (avocado breakfast smoothie) recipe let me know how it turned. Take a picture and tag me @veg2nonveg_kitchen on Instagram with the hashtag #veg2nonvegkitchen. I would love to see your creation.
Here is the print version of avocado lassi recipe
Avocado Lassi | Avocado Breakfast Smoothie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 avocado medium sized
- 1 cup yogurt
- ¾ cup milk
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 2 cardamom pods crushed
- ½ teaspoon rose water optional
- pistachios to garnish
Instructions
- Chop the avocado to chunks and add it the blender jar.
- Add the remaining ingredients (yogurt, milk, honey, cardamom, rose water) and blend it to smooth consistency
- Transfer the smoothie to a glass, garnish with chopped pistachios and enjoy immediately.
Notes
- Avocado lassi will be thicker in consistency but you can thin it out by adding extra water as you need.
- If you prefer you can add ice cubes to your blender jar while making this lassi. Instead of cardamom pods, you can use vanilla extract. The taste will be good too.
- Honey is my favorite sweetener to add it my smoothies, you can also add dates or sugar instead.
- Frozen avocado also works perfect for the recipe.
Nutrition
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