Mango & Cardamom Lassi

Childhood trips to Brick Lane on Sunday morning usually involved grocery shopping and browsing the various wares set up on the stalls – clothes, ornate bits of costume jewellery and crates and crates of fresh fruit and vegetables. One of the highlights was of course lunch at Sweet & Spicy, which always included refreshing glasses of lassi served from an aluminium pitcher. If you can get hold of Pakistani Chaunsa or Indian Kesar mangoes in the Asian grocery stores, then they are the best