Drink · 5 min · Amounts not specified
Salted cucumber lassi
Savory. Better with lunch than dessert.
The sheet · 1 tall glass · 5 min
easyWhy tonight. Savory. Better with lunch than dessert.
What it needs
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- yogurt
- cucumber
- mint
- lime
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: cumin.
Method
- Grate the cucumber and squeeze it through a cloth. You want the juice, not the pulp, or it goes gritty.
- Yogurt whisked smooth with water, then the cucumber juice, then mint bruised in your hand.
- Salt rather than sugar. This is the savory one and it is far better on a hot day than the sweet version.
- Lime at the end and more salt than seems right. It should taste seasoned, not sweet.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- yogurt
- Acid and creaminess together, which is why it works as a sauce with no cooking at all.
- cucumber
- Water and crunch, which is a real job in a rich dish.
- mint
- Loud, cooling, and easily wrecked.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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