I may have stumbled upon the most refreshing drink on the planet. …well, one of the most refreshing drinks, anyway.
If you’ve never heard of a lassi, it’s a drink made with yogurt, spices, and sometimes fruit or other ingredients. It’s super light, super fresh, and just plain revitalizing. What I LOVE about this drink is how the tart plain yogurt really adds a bright zing. Add in some peppery ginger, and “zing” might be an understatement!
This lassi is lighter and fresher tasting than my usual smoothie, so it’s great when I don’t want to feel really full. I normally opt for frozen fruit rather than ice cubes in my smoothies, but I wanted this drink to be a “drink” and not a thick, meal-like smoothie. The ice makes it a super cold, liquidy beverage. I used plain yogurt because that’s what I always have in my fridge, and I didn’t want the flavors muddled by vanilla. Vanilla yogurt would probably be good too, but it will definitely be more dessert like. Also, if you use vanilla yogurt, you may not need as much honey.
One more note: if you’re not into fresh ginger, you might try a different spice like cinnamon or cardamom. The fresh ginger in this drink is quite spicy… but that was my favorite part.
Seriously, after a super hard workout, this drink is HEAVEN.
Pineapple Ginger Lassi
Pineapple Ginger Lassi
Servings 1Ingredients
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt ($0.27)
- 1/2 cup pineapple chunks with juice ($0.35)
- 1 inch fresh ginger ($0.12)
- 1 Tbsp honey ($0.11)
- 4-5 large ice cubes ($0.00)
Instructions
- Peel the ginger and then, using a fine cheese grater, grate it straight into the blender (to catch all of the juice). Add the yogurt, pineapple chunks with juice, honey, and ice cubes.
- Blend until smooth. Enjoy immediately!
See how we calculate recipe costs here.
Nutrition
Have you tried this recipe?Mention @budgetbytes or tag #budgetbytes on Instagram!
Step By Step Photos
This is all you need for this amazing drink… yet another reason why I love it. It’s simple and easy to have the ingredients on hand. I like to have the can of pineapple stored in the fridge so that it’s cold before I even start.
Peel a one inch section of the fresh ginger and then grate it straight into your blender. You want to capture all of that lovely juice that comes out while you’re grating.
Measure out about a half cup of pineapple chunks and juice. I actually measured out the chunks first, and then about 1/4 cup of juice, but if you just fill the measuring cup up with both at once, it will pretty much be the same.
Add the yogurt, pineapple (plus juice), honey, and ice cubes to the blender with the grated ginger.
Blend until smooth and then enjoy immediately!
It’s the perfect refresher for those long, exhausting blogging sessions! Ha!
Still super yummy! Shocking how these ingredients come together so easily
I used frozen pineapple instead of canned, so I had to add a little water to get it to blend. Also, I used only a tsp of minced ginger (from the squeeze bottle) and I thought it was plenty spicy. :)
You mentioned substituting cardamom (or other spices) for the ginger. Ginger is not my favorite flavor (for some reason it makes me think of soap) but I adore the scent/flavor of cardamom. How much cardamom would you use?
Cardamom can vary quite a bit in potency with its freshness, so I would go by taste here. Luckily smoothies are really easy to taste and add more as needed. So I’d start with a really small amount, like 1/8 tsp, blend it, taste it, and then keep adding more as needed.
Delicious! We used greek yoghurt and it still came out great.
We had our first pineapple lassi in Bali and this tasted even better. Thank you for the recipe. What a nice way to remember our wonderful holiday.
This is amazing! I’ve been having this for breakfast for the past couple weeks, and when a local grocery store had fresh pineapple on sale, I grabbed three and tossed them in the blender, then froze the puree, so now all I have to do is thaw a pineapple puck, grate some ginger, and stir everything together! I love it!
Just made this, now sipping it on my back porch. Perfect summer drink!
NOM! Thank you so much for this recipe. I made it with homemade milk kefir, raw honey, canned pineapple, and fresh ginger. So good!
Delicious and refreshing! I love making lassi and this is a new favorite flavor.
I am so making this!!!!! I’m making an Indian food feast for my bf when he gets home from work. This will definitely make him happy. Thanks for sharing!!! Also, do you think you might be trying your hand at samosas? Just putting the thought out there :).
I take equal parts milk and yogurt, some sugar, and ice and blend them all together. SO HEAVENLY!
waiting to see this on a “drink” pinterest board! BTW I think Im in love with you (and after I start making all the recipes I just made shopping lists for, I think my boyfriend will too)
I omitted the ice, used fresh pineapple and made this recipe into popsicles. Holy mother of god they are AMAZING!
I have made this at least 5 times over the last week – delicious, refreshing, and will keep you awake during a long night-time drive! :)
As a side note, last night I forgot the honey, and learned that – for me, at least – including honey in the drink is a must. :)
I lovee yoooouu!!!!
I have all of this in my kitchen I’m going to try this today! thanks
This looks great! I can’t wait to try this and you use my favorite brand of honey.
I drank one of these everyday in India to get past the requisite stomach problems that you WILL encounter on any visit there. Worked perfectly. I like strawberry lassi the best, but drank a lot of the locally-popular mango as well. Awesome summer drink.
Just made this but used lite vanilla yogurt because I was out of the regular type and 1 tsp ground ginger because I was out of fresh ginger. I also omitted the honey because the yogurt was sweet already.
It still turned out delicious!
I’m enjoying this right now! Delicious and refreshing . Every recipe I’ve tried from your blog is a winner:) thanks for sharing all of your wonderful recipes with the amazing and very helpful photos!
sounds lovely! An easier way to peel ginger is using the edge of an ordinary teaspoon. Just scrape it along the peel of the ginger as you would a knife, the peel should come right off!
Thank you thank you,!! I have fresh pineapple mangoes and ginger and needed to use tyem this week. I didnt know what to make. Now i am all set. I love my budget bytes emails!!
Not Crocker – I think fresh pineapple would work well.
Wray – I don’t think it would be as good if mixed up and then kept in the refrigerator because all of the ice would melt and the other ingredients may separate.
Do you think it would taste just as good if you made a batch and kept leftovers refrigerated?
I was JUST thinking of this sort of thing today, but ended up making a mango, pineapple & yogurt smoothie. Mango lassi is my drink of choice when I get Indian food (refreshing and soothing with spicy food), but pineapple and ginger are great together.
This looks insanely good. I love fresh ginger in drinks, I am definitely going to have to try this after my next workout. How do you think it will work with fresh pineapple?