After posting the tambran (tamarind) ball recipe a few days ago (sweet spicy sour tambran balls ). I recognize which i still had some tamarind left back and so i made the decision to talk about this recipe with everyone. Initially after i told my mother I got myself some tamarind inside a box in the Asian store, she jokingly stated &"buh boy, dais not the actual factor&" (jeeze trinbago accent sweet eh!). So she experienced my father to get out there and get a few of the ‘real factor&" for me personally and sent it lower with my sister (they reside in Toronto and that i’m in Hamilton). Affirmed it had been the &"tart&" or sour kind of tamarind we’re accustomed too within the Caribbean, but already from the hard covering-like exterior.
This tamarind sauce can be used mainly like a condiment or topping for things like saheena. aloo cake. pholourie and doubles. However I also recall (to my school days again) a thicker version, with a kind of amchar massala undertone which was a success using the children at my primary school. Maybe I’ll publish that recipe next time I recieve a few of the ‘real’ tamarind.
200 grams tamarind pulp (about 7 oz)
3 cloves garlic clove
1 scotch bonnet or habanero pepper
1 1/2 2 tablespoon brown sugar
2-3 leaves shado beni
1 1/2 cup water
* then add salt and additional sugar in the event that the finished sauce is excessively tart.
Before I am going further I have to inform you that there's two variations of the recipe. The very first being generate income’ll demonstrate below, where I’ll simmer the sauce around the stove for 10-fifteen minutes. The second method you’ll make use of the same ingredients, except no cooking is involved. You just add something to a blender and provide it a great pulse. I love to cooked version better when i discover that the pungent ingredients such as the shado bein and garlic clove is infused inside the sauce and it has a significantly milder after-taste.
The initial step would be to crush the pepper, garlic clove and shando beni into a kind of chunky paste. I give individuals things a tough chop and arrange it well within my mortar and pestle.
BTW, you’ll observe that my shado beni looks a little depriving&... I’m just grateful I possibly could get fresh shado beni here, and so i’m not complaining. The next thing is put the tamarind paste right into a sauce pan with 1 1/2 cups water. Now making use of your fingers, (should you didn’t get seedless), work the pulp from the seeds and then try to crush the flesh involving the fingers. It will receive a bit untidy so that you can put on disposable mitts if you want.
Now take away the seeds and discard. Put the saucepan on medium heat, add some sugar (pinch of salt) and also the crushed pepper/garlic clove/shado beni towards the pot and produce to some gentle boil. Now turn heat lower to some gentle simmer along with the pot closed, let it prepare for around ten to fifteen minutes.
Stir every 2-3 minutes and in the event that it’s getting really thick, add a little more water. You’re searching for a kind of thick tomato soup consistency (just a little thinner than ketchup). Let it awesome before becoming the flavour if this’s hot is completely diverse from if this’s awesome. If whenever you taste it you discover it’s more tart (sour) than other things, add a little more sugar. It ought to be the right balance of tart, savory and spicy.
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