West Indian
Chaas (Spiced Buttermilk)
Chaas (Spiced Buttermilk) is West Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 cup plain curd
- 3 cups water
- 1/2 tsp roasted cumin powder
- 1/4 tsp black salt
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- 1 green chili
- 2 tbsp chopped cilantro
- 1/4 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Whisk the curd with the water until smooth and frothy, a hand blender or a traditional churner works well here.
- Stir in the roasted cumin powder, black salt, salt, grated ginger, and finely chopped green chili.
- Chill well and garnish with cilantro just before serving.
- Serve cold in tall glasses alongside lunch, as a digestive.
Serve it with
A West Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chaas (Spiced Buttermilk), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chaas (Spiced Buttermilk) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Dhokla (Steamed Fermented Rice-Lentil Cake) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chaas (Spiced Buttermilk) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on curd.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from West India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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