tamarind is made by steeping fibrous tamarind flesh in boiling water, and then straining it. An equal quantity of high-quality tamarind concentrate, like Tamicon, thinned with water may also be used in these recipes, but it will lack the bright and delicate quality of from-scratch tamarind ...
There are two ways to make Tamarind Pop: the “quick and dirty” method and the boil ahead method. You can start from scratch by buying the raw fruit in its seed pods, but if you want to save yourself the trouble of trying to peel the sticky fruit out of the dried shells, I recomm...