SueZ Wrote:
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> coconutcream Wrote:
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> > Suez
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> > I am prepared to accept your tamarind dip
> recipe!
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> [www.slcl.org]-
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> Basic Raw Vegan Tamarind Dip Recipe
>
> 117 grams (after shelling) (which is around 10
> pods worth)raw tamarind
>
> 1 cup hot water
>
> 1 1/2 t. fresh ginger juice
>
> 1/2 t. black salt
>
> 1/2 t. Real salt
>
> 1/4 to 1/2 t. cayenne (to your taste - I used 1/4
> t. 160,000 shu cayenne)
>
> 1 cored sweet apple (I use a Honey Crisp or a
> Gala)
>
> After soaking and pressing the tamarind pulp and
> water through a sieve that has wide spaced wire
> put it in your blender with the rest of the
> ingredients and blend until smooth and then
> refrigerate it. By the next day the ingredients
> will have had time to properly blend and it will
> taste less salty. Bring it to room temperature
> before you serve it. It keeps at least a week in
> the fridge and at least 3 months in the freezer.
>
> The tamarind pods in your photo have been dried by
> too high of heat and are not raw. If you don't
> live where tamarind grows you can only buy it raw
> from the refrigerated produce areas of stores. The
> shells of raw tamarind are brown not grey and
> their flesh is much lighter in color. I take a
> hammer to the shells and tear the fruit into small
> pieces to soak in the water so they will be
> covered and so that 1 cup of water will be enough
> to keep the dip thick enough.


I thought it would be OK to keep this tamarind stuff on this thread since the OP abandoned it anyway but that seems to have been a mistake. I'll start a new thread for it, as I had originally planned to do, once the full moon effects settle down at this site.

WOW SUEZ I think I need to see that on video, can you make the recipe, film it and put it on youtube? That looks amazing!! Where the hell am I going to get tamarind at the bottom of Mount Rainier?

coconutcream Wrote:
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> WOW SUEZ I think I need to see that on video, can
> you make the recipe, film it and put it on
> youtube? That looks amazing!! Where the hell am I
> going to get tamarind at the bottom of Mount
> Rainier?

I'm sorry I don't have a camera or the web skills to do that. I could walk you through it if I didn't explain it as well as I tried to. I get my refrigerated raw tamarind from either the local Asian or the Mexican grocery store. We used to have a Philippino store that had it too but they went out of business.

I just now checked and Peapod has it, too, but I'd call them first as the place of origin they list is either Thailand or Mexico. I have never gotten the good raw tamarind from Mexico so I'm leery.

I hope you can get Peapod service. It's so nice to just order one night and then have it delivered the next morning without having to drive in 20 below zero weather through 6 inches of snow. They even take it all right into your kitchen for you. If something turns out to be unacceptable I call them, tell them why, and they reimburse my credit card with no more questions asked. Very civilized - like Amazon is (unless you work for them maybe).

I don't remember how far Rainier is from Seattle but I'm sure you'll be able to find raw tamarind there. One of my brother's lives in your neck woods. He has a nice house on Lake Sammamish. Very pretty area!