Tamarind Soda
At work, we have these awesome tamarind sodas, but I’m watching what I eat right now, and they are insanely sugary and loaded with weird ingredients. I was craving one the other night, and instead ofย succumbingย to the sugar demon, I decided to make my own with fresh ingredients and much less sugar.
Shell all the tamarind from one of thoes boxes. Mix the pulp with hot water, sugar, and a pinch of salt, and let it sit for an hour.
Press through a strainer to remove the pulp from the seeds.
Some of the pulp mixture in a cup with ice.
Lime and soda finishes it off. This drink is refreshing and delicious. I added a shot of vodka to mine!
Tamarind Soda
A homemade refreshing soda with fresh tamarind.
Ingredients
- 1 Box Tamarind Pods
- Soda Water
- Lime
Instructions
- Open one box of tamarind pods. Crack the shells and place all the flesh into a bowl. In a pot, heat up some water to a simmer. Pour the hot water over the tamarind only about half way up. Add 1/3 cup of brown sugar and a pinch of salt. Stir this mixture every few minutes for the course of an hour. Pour the mixture into a mesh strainer over a bowl to collect the water and press the tamarind pulp through the strainer to remove the strings and seeds. Pour the tamarind water and pulp into a blender and blend smooth. To a cup with ice, add a few spoonfuls of the tamarind mixture, a squeeze of lime, and fill with soda water. Stir well and serve! Refreshing!
I bought a case of prepared tamarind pulp – and think I’ve used only one jar for some BBQ sauce. Ya figure they’d work ok? Cheers! T
I think this would work Tom, but I don’t love the flavor of packaged tamarind pulp
A brilliant alternate for the cal laid chill drinks! Perfect to beat the heat! Good Going!
Any Jamaicans on here recall the poverty powder like baking powder we used add a tip to the tamarind drink to Dr taste and fuzz to it? We called it driving soda? What is the correct name? E.G. Bicarbonate of Soda is baking soda? Anyone else from the world knows p!ease tell me! I just can’t remember and my old folks are gone ahead!
My grandma just added baking soda but my kid- tongue hated it