Tamarind Drinks- Sweet and Tangy

The taste of our Tangy Tamarind drinks is a combination of sweet, sour and hot.

It’s a drink which can be consumed at any time of the year, as it combines tamarind, jaggery, ginger and spices in such a way as to make it deliciously complex. To begin with, tamarinds are soaked and ground together with aromatic spices like cinnamon and cumin.

This tamarind mixture is then cooked with crumbled jaggery until it becomes thick syrup; thereupon it is filtered and stored as concentrate (base).

All one needs to do is mix it with cold water, add some mint leaves and ice cubes for a cool refreshing drink. For those scorching days whenever you want something new to cool your body or enhance your diet this tamarind elixir would surely suffice.

Easy Steps:

If you have tamarind with seeds or its skin unpeeled remove them.

Scrub the tamarind gently before putting into hot water for about fifteen minutes so that it could soften.

After soaking , remove the soaked tamarind from the water and add to a grinder.

Add peeled ginger pieces, cinnamon powder or stick, black salt, salt, and cumin powder to the grinder.

Grind everything into a fine paste. Add a small amount of water if needed to ease the grinding process to make fine paste.

Take a saucepan, add the jaggery and crush it into a crumbly texture using your hands to dissolve fast.

Add the tamarind paste into the saucepan and mix with the jaggery to make a thick liquid mix.

Heat up the pan and simmer the mixture till to reaches 100°C. Once it reaches this temperature, turn off the heat and leave the mixture to cool down.

When the mixture cools to below 50°C, strain it into another container to remove any solid residues.

Pour the strained tamarind juice base into bottles. This base can be stored for up to a year.