Right Way To Make Buttermilk at Home: Where to get buttermilk everyday in the city? So, in this scorching heat, Ritu often makes buttermilk by adding water to the curd prepared at home. She carries this buttermilk in her and her husband’s tiffin. Like Ritu, do you also make thin buttermilk by adding water to home-made curd, blending it in a mixer or churning it with your hands? If yes, then let us tell you that you have not been drinking buttermilk for so long. Rather, under the illusion of buttermilk, you are actually drinking only thin curd. Even on YouTube, many home cooks are teaching the recipe of ‘Masala Buttermilk’ by whipping curd in a mixture and adding many spices to it. But from the point of view of Ayurveda, neither is it buttermilk nor is it going to give you benefits like ‘Taak’.
Curd or buttermilk, which is more beneficial in summer
Actually, buttermilk prepared by completely removing ghee is considered very light and beneficial. This buttermilk is called ‘Amrit’ for the body in Ayurveda. On the other hand, curd prepared by curdling milk without removing ghee is very heavy, strong and causes phlegm. When buttermilk is churned, its proteins break down in this process and it becomes light by adding water. Buttermilk is a panacea for gut health. Drinking it increases good bacteria in the gut.
Buttermilk is not made by adding water to curd.
Many people come to me and tell me that they drink Raj Buttermilk. But when you ask them how they drink buttermilk, they tell that they make buttermilk by adding water to curd and whipping it and drink it every day. Actually, buttermilk is not made by mixing curd with water and whipping it and if you are drinking buttermilk like this then you are not drinking buttermilk. Buttermilk and curd are made only by churning. But in reality, what remains after extracting butter from buttermilk is called buttermilk. Buttermilk is easily available in the village. But if you are living in cities then you can easily make buttermilk at home also. For this, after extracting cream from double tone milk or homemade milk twice, set curd. When you make buttermilk from this curd, it will be true buttermilk. You can drink this buttermilk.
Do not drink buttermilk if you have acidity
Dr. Sunil Arya says, there is a misconception among people that buttermilk is cold. But in reality both curd and buttermilk are hot in nature. Besides, it is also a bile factor. If someone has acidity then he should not drink curd or buttermilk at that time. Actually, buttermilk is very beneficial for the digestive system. It increases good bacteria in the body. Drinking buttermilk after eating food is like nectar. Because it increases acid in the body, which improves the digestion process, but for this reason, one should not drink buttermilk when there is acidity.
Buttermilk and curd also provide B12
Dr. Arya says that if there is indigestion, bloating, digestion is not happening properly, one has to go again and again after eating food, then consumption of buttermilk is good for the body. Rather, Vitamin B12 is available to some extent from buttermilk and curd. Buttermilk should be drunk after eating. But buttermilk should be consumed before sunset.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: May 22, 2024, 13:22 IST
