How To Prepare Tamarind Paste

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Yield: about ¼ cup

Ingredients

4 TBSP / 60g seedless tamarind ½ cup hot boiling water

Measurements: tsp. = teaspoon | TBSP = tablespoon

Preparation
1. Cut off 4 TBSP of tamarind pulp from tamarind block. Put them in a bowl.	2. Add ½ cup of hot water to the tamarind pulp.	3. Press tamarind pulp with a metal spoon.
4. Leave tamarind pulp to soak in hot water until softened for 30 minutes.	5. Grab a handful of tamarind pulp and keep squeezing and squashing to separate them from seeds and fibers. Repeat process with the remaining pulp.	6. With the back of a metal spoon, press as much smooth pulp through a mesh strainer as possible, leaving behind the stringy fibers and seeds.
7. Tamarind paste is ready to use.

Notes

For tamarind liquid, add additional ½ cup of hot water to the left behind stringy tamarind fibers and seeds, press them with back of a spoon. Then, press them through a mesh strainer into the bowl with tamarind paste. You can make more tamarind paste and keep them in refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.