Tamarind chutney (sweet and sour sauce)

Name: Tamarind chutney (sweet and sour sauce)
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 4-serving
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 tamarind *; 1/2 Tablespoon jaggery; 6 dates; 1/2 Cup water; 1 Teaspoon Ginger paste; 1/2 Teaspoon Green chilli paste; To Taste Salt

Shivani Nair @cook_7804171

Austin, TX, USA

I inherited this recipe from my mother. It has a very unique taste. Its used as sauce with samosa and also can be used in Indian chat recipes like bhel, pani puri.

Shivani Nair @cook_7804171

Austin, TX, USA

I inherited this recipe from my mother. It has a very unique taste. Its used as sauce with samosa and also can be used in Indian chat recipes like bhel, pani puri.

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Ingredients

15 mins

4-serving

1tamarind *
1/2 Tablespoonjaggery
6dates
1/2 Cupwater
1 TeaspoonGinger paste
1/2 TeaspoonGreen chilli paste
To TasteSalt

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Steps

15 mins

1

For tamarind, remove its hard cover and soak it in hot water(2 tbsp water) for 1 hour and then use it with water
2

Boil tamarind, jaggery, dates and water in a pressure cooker till 1 whistle
3

Let it cool down for 20 minutes
4

Filter the tamarind boiled mixture using bowl /steel pan base as net (as shown below) and put a pan below to collect the filtered liquid
5

Press it with spoon or hand inside the net to take most of the paste out of the mixture
6

Add ginger – chilli paste to the filtered liquid and mix it well
7

Add salt to taste and chutney is ready