Tamarind drink

Name: Tamarind drink
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 100 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Tchad
Ingredients: 80 g food-grade seedless unsweetened tamarind pulp; 1 litre drinking water: 500 ml hot for extraction and 500 ml cold; 40 g sugar

🥤 Filtered tamarind pulp drink diluted with water and lightly sweetened.

Ingredients

80 g food-grade seedless unsweetened tamarind pulp
1 litre drinking water: 500 ml hot for extraction and 500 ml cold
40 g sugar

Preparation

Choose seedless unsweetened food-grade pulp, not strong liquid concentrate. Check package and break pulp into a heatproof container.

Boil 500 ml drinking water, remove from heat and pour over pulp. Cover and steep 20 minutes, then work gently with a spoon to loosen flesh.

Strain through a fine sieve into a clean container. Press moderately without forcing coarse fibres through. Discard residue.

Dissolve 40 g sugar in still-warm liquid, add remaining 500 ml cold drinking water and mix. Refrigerate about 1 hour until cold.

Stir and divide into 4 glasses. Final yield is approximately 1 litre and depends on retained liquid. Reference: 15 preparation, 5 heating, 20 extraction and 60 cooling, total 100 minutes.