Tamarind juice

🥤 Chilled tart tamarind-pulp drink, strained and lightly sweetened, four glasses.

Ingredients

• 80 g edible unsweetened tamarind pulp without shells or seeds
• 1 litre cool drinking water
• 40 g sugar

Preparation

Read label for food-grade unsweetened seedless pulp, not concentrated extract. Weigh 80 g and break into small pieces.

Cover pulp with the litre of water in a clean container and refrigerate one hour until soft, longer if product requires.

Mash with clean spoon, whisk or briefly blend to disperse. Strain through fine sieve, pressing gently, and discard coarse fibres.

Stir 40 g sugar into filtered liquid until dissolved. Add no ice or milk in this measured dilution.

Refrigerate thirty minutes, stir and divide four glasses. One litre describes water used, not an exact final-volume promise.