Tamarind Sauce

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Preparation info
  • Makes About

    ¾ Cup

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Naomi Duguid

Published 2012

  • About

Like tamarind sauces in India, this is used as a dipping sauce for deep-fried snacks. It’s also good drizzled on rice. The tartness of the tamarind is balanced by a little sugar, there’s the pungency from the garlic, and the chile heat keeps the flavors alive in your mouth. Tamarind sauce is at its best freshly made.

Ingredients

Method

Place the tamarind pulp in a small bowl, add the water, and soak for about 10 minutes.

Mash the tamarind with a fork (or use your fingers) to separate the seeds and fibers from the pulp. Place a sieve over a bowl and press the tamarind through the sieve, using the back of a spoon to extract as much liquid as possible from the pulp; set the tamarind liquid aside.

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