Bananas are highly nutritious and great to taste. It is one fruit which is available in almost all warm parts of the world.
Bananas are rich in nutrients, antioxidants, fiber and good number of calories. The health benefits are innumerable. It is helpful specially for people with digestive problem, blood pressure, and also those on weight loss regime. Athletes too tend to consume in good numbers.
More importantly, it is a convenient food that can be easily packed, carried and consumed when you are on wheels!!!
For those who are not aware of buttermilk, let me clarify it for you. It is a milk derivative obtained as one of the end product of churning the milk cream. Churning the milk cream results in the separation of butter from milk. This resulting milk devoid of the fat is buttermilk, which is normally a little sour compared to milk.
Buttermilk has several health benefits too. Its unique sour taste helps in easier digestion. As water constitutes a large portion of buttermilk, it is very helpful in maintaining the body water balance.
Now, putting together, the best of the two worlds results in a healthy drink – Banana Buttermilk Smoothie.
Simple ingredients, easy to prepare, great to taste and most importantly very good for health. This smoothie comes with a complete package of goodies that you cannot ignore.
Total time: 2 minutes
Preparation time: 2 minutes
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
Banana (Ripe): 1 (large)
Buttermilk: 1 cup
Honey: 1 tbsp.
Method:
- Peel and cut the banana
- Grind the banana along with the buttermilk and honey
- Bingo! Banana Buttermilk Smoothie is ready. Enjoy your evening with a yummy and healthy beverage without any guilt
Note:
If the buttermilk is sour, you may reduce the quantity of buttermilk according to your taste and add water.
Buttermilk stories:
I still remember our childhood days. Sundays are always welcome as that is the only day when we get to see our favourite cartoon programmes on TV. While watching TV, the only help that mom expected then was to shake (rather churn) the ‘horlicks’ bottle filled with milk cream to separate the butter from buttermilk!!!
In my ancestral house, I remember seeing a staff fitted in a corner. In joint families of olden days, it was a daily task to butter the milk and one of the ladies in the family did this every morning. A thick rope was used to connect the staff with the churning stick. The churning stick itself was dipped inside a big pot containing heavy milk cream to be churned. The etched side of the churning stick was dipped inside the pot. Then the rope was pulled from either side (looked like the hands were playing tug of war with each other). The ladies sang while churning the butter out of the cream. In olden days, earthen pots where used for churning. The taste of the buttermilk stored in earthen pots is incomparable, as against steel and ceramic pots used now.
All these are memories now. Well, now there are enough machines available in the market to do this job for us. Though I don’t use one now, I have preserved one of the churning sticks, passed on by my mother-in-law for nostalgic reasons.
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