Jeera जीराThe Kitchen Notebook
Jeera Buttermilk Chaas
Salted, spiced, savoury — Jeera Sharbat folded into thick chaas with mint, ginger and a final dust of black salt. The midday cure on a hot week.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Total
- 5 min
- Level
- Easy
- Serves 2
How to make it
- 01
Whisk the yogurt with 50 ml cold water until smooth.
- 02
Add the rest of the water, the Jeera Sharbat, and the grated ginger. Whisk again.
- 03
Tear in the mint leaves and stir.
- 04
Pour over ice, dust with black salt, top with a final mint sprig.
The story
Buttermilk is what you drink when the day is too hot to eat. Cold, salty, faintly spiced, it sits well even when nothing else will.
We add Jeera Sharbat to do the heavy lifting on the spice — pre-roasted, pre-ground cumin in the right amount, every time. What's left is shaking the yogurt cold and tearing the mint.