Spiced, salted buttermilk drink, also called mor, sambaram, majjige or chaas, is a popular thirst quencher in India. At its humblest form, this drink can simply be buttermilk served with a pinch of salt. I’ve added a little twist by using some refreshing, crunchy bits of cucumber in this recipe. With all the ginger, cumin and asafoetida in this drink, its also a great digestive.
If you dont have buttermilk, you could use 1 part yogurt and 1 part water. Or just thin out yogurt to your liking.
Similar spiced buttermilk recipes:
Sambharam, majjige or mor recipe on Edible Garden
Spiced buttermilk recipe on Vegetable Platter
Majjiga or salted yogurt drink recipe on Sailu’s Kitchen
Spicy buttermilk on Aayis Recipes
Spiced Buttermilk Drink with Cucumber (chaas, mor, moru, majjige, sambaram) Recipe
serves about 2
2 cups buttermilk (or 1 cup yogurt diluted with 1 cup water)
1/8th teaspoon cumin seeds
4-6 curry leaves
1 teaspoon sized knob of ginger, peeled
1 small green chilli or according to taste, optional
2 sprigs of cilantro
a pinch of asafoetida
salt
2 tablespoons finely chopped cucumber
Pour the buttermilk into a bowl and set aside. In a mortar and pestle, roughly pound the cumin seeds, curry leaf, ginger, chilli, cilantro and asafoetida. Add the pounded spices to the buttermilk and add salt. Stir well. Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour so the flavors marry. Strain before serving and garnish with chopped cucumbers.
Ahh.. that’s a thirst quencher..BEAUTIFUL!!!!
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Love those jars. And I can become little greedy and drink them all.
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Love it!!!!
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Wow! love that wooden board in th etop picture. I’ve been searching trash cans and disposable areas for such a board
Where did you get that from?
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Sala @ Veggie Belly Reply:
August 25th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
trust me, i do a lot of trash digging for props too!! you can get these wooden crates in all the stores. This one is from my local arts & crafts store (Michaels). If you go to the back or loading area of most stores they will have them. Ask the store manager if they throw the crates away; if they do, they will be more than happy to let you take a few.
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Simply superb. love butter milk and mom used to add chopped raw mangoes to it along with cucumber. Classic clicks as usual
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Ah! I love morum vellam
That’s how we call it at home .
Beautiful beautiful pictures, Sala! Loved those jars and basket! I have a similar one, but it’s plain brown in colour.
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Love the koodai!!
Yummo!
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Gulp! Gulp! Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh!
This beats all sodas! Good ol’ Indian chass!
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wow ,i can have this spiced butter milk anytime …yummy
Satya
http://www.superyummyrecipes.com
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Wow love the jars !!! My favorite drink ..Refreshing pics !!!
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I too add chopped cucumbers and raw mango for the spiced buttermilk.. Spiced buttermilk is the best thirst quencher forever. Seeing the pictures makes me thirsty now and wish I can have the jar by myside.
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Mooru vellam looks delicious. Nice props.
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Ah! nature’s best thirst quencher!!! Mor!
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Love the pictures! I am not a very big fan of the chaas, but I really could use some in this heat.
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How good is tat….I prefer tis nytime to aerated drinks.
Sala ur pics as usual r soo beautiful…love ur perceptions, u make de simplest things amazing….No doubt u r my photography queen……
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Creamy buttermilk – its my fav…looks too tempting
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Simply superb.
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I soo want to drink all of that … adding chopped cucumber is such a cool idea … N I loved the colorful basket & the pics are super awesome
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Cutie jars… and I can finish all of them if u dont mind !!
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It’s very good taste, this recipe is belonging to Turkish Food. We made with yogurt. It’s orginal name is “cacik”.
Loves from Istanbul/Turkey
Hulya
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Sala @ Veggie Belly Reply:
August 26th, 2010 at 11:17 am
When we visited, I saw huge vats of frothy cacik buttermilk being sold all over Turkey
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Hulya Reply:
August 27th, 2010 at 7:43 am
Its name “ayran”, like buttermilk
(yogurt+water mixed=ayran” )
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So simple and refreshing. My best friend has told me about a similar drink and now I have a recipe to try out. Thanks, Sala!
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I’ve heard a lot about chaas but never had it. Sounds very cooling and refreshing. And the clicks – beeeee-u-teeeee-ful! :0
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Hey, that was meant to be a smiley
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I found buttermilk here in germany so now I can try this kind of drink I saw so many times…
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the beauty of simplicity
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I love your pics Sala… and those jars are so darn cute.
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Wish I have a glass of this chilled buttermilk now!! Love the rustic background in the pictures!
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Hey, this is my first time here (thanks to Nags) and allow me to say that I’m in LOVE with your blog! Love the writing, love the pictures! (Btw, I could gulp that drink down RIGHT now–and it’s 23:55 as I write this!)
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