The Ultimate Guide to TAMARIND - Hot Thai Kitchen!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- Tamarind, known in Thai as "makaam", is one of the most important ingredients in Thai cuisine. It is a staple in every Thai kitchen, and it plays a key role in popular dishes, such as pad thai! Many people cook with tamarind, but perhaps few know what the fruit actually looks like or how that brown liquid in the jar was made! I also get a lot of questions about tamarind in general, so here's a video to hopefully tackle them all. In this video I talk about everything from what the fruit looks like, how to eat a fresh tamarind, how to buy cooking tamarind, how to store it, and how to use it. If you still have unanswered questions, please feel free to let me know!
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We just bought some but my husband did find a dead bug :/ in one of them. Not sure if we can still eat them. Or if we have to clean them?
Could you tell me the recipes you have with tamarind ?, I made the same question on Facebook but you have not answered me
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@@hectormayes3661 you could search Hot Thai Kitchen tamarind recipes
I can't believe no one has mentioned Mexican agua fresca de tamarindo. Just make the fresh paste like she did, then add lots of ice, water, and a good quality of sugar. Makes a wonderfully refreshing alternative to lemonade.
I love that and agua de jamaica!
Thailand Mexico no where near only Hispanics do the soda drinks ad things very good
I love Mexican tamarind candies and drinks! I finally found tamarind pods at a local Mexican market
I make it all the time for myself 👍
Lol, I’m making that right now. That’s why I’m watching this video.
Salivating, remember the days when we were kids, we climbed the tamarind tree and eat right up there, with salt.
A bit of trivia: many folks from the UK love their HP or "brown sauce" not realising that it contains that magic ingredient, tamarind. That gives the sauce that lovely fruity sourness, an idea probably borrowed from the Indians use of "imli" when the Brits were in India.
In Malaysia, some Indians use the leftover tamarind pulp to polish their brass ornaments. Waste not, want not!
Also, we differentiate our souring agents, calling tamarind (as featured in your video) "asam jawa" (tamarind from Java), whereas another common souring agent is "asam keping" (tamarind in pieces). But the latter is not related to tamarind, but closer to the mangosteen family (garcinia), which produces a rather sour fruit that is sliced and dried.
The Peranakan (Straits Chinese) cooks always advise newbies to "adjust seasoning after adding tamarind", especially salt and sugar. Even if the dish's seasoning was perfect up to the point tamarind is added, one must always taste and make further adjustments after adding the "asam" paste.. Due to the sourness introduced, it can "unbalance" the overall taste.
Also, watch out for the processed tamarind pulp in block form - I've encountered ones where so much salt was added in processing the pulp that one must compensate for that by under-salting the dish, then adjusting for salt AFTER the tamarind is added. The obvious point is tamarind can be regarded as a seasoning ingredient, so if one is unfamiliar with the strength of the paste, add part of the recipe's recommended amount, taste, then add more as required.
Thanks. This is new to me. Your details help me a lot, before I make it poorly.
Brilliant, thank you!
my grandmother in mexico used it all the time. also grew up eating tarmarind Mexican candies, still do!
Me too!
Is Mexican tamarind sweeter or more sour? I am curious to use it, but I'm unsure if what I can get at the Mexican markets near me will be sour enough for asian cooking.
+crimsonstar108 personally, i dont know. I've never tried any other kind. they both look the same to me though.
+crimsonstar108 I've used it without issue, but I think it is more like the 'sweeter' Thai tamarind.
+crimsonstar108 It's more on the sour side, some may have a little bit of sweetness but most of the tamarind you find here is sour
I used that sweet tamarind from Thailand when I studied in the States to make Indonesian dishes: Sayur Asam. At that time, I dont even know that it was a sweet Tamarind since the box said Tamarind and my recipe said to use tamarind. I kept wondering why was my dishes tasted so sweet. Glad that I watched your video now. It explained a lot.
I love the tamarind chilli candies. By the way, it is easy to grow a tamarind tree indoors by planting seeds found in the pulp.
REALLY??????? Thanks. I shall do THIS one. A Tamarindo tree! Wow.
I live in the states and there are a lot of latin bodegas in my town what are some of the names of some of these candies? I would like to try some of these candies. thank you in advance
I buy bags of tamarinds that say sweet and sour with chili. It says they are a product of Thailand, exported by Jack Hua Co. I buy them at a local Asian store run by a Thai/Filipina couple. They’re delicious, a bit addictive. 😊
@@graymatt181 my favorite right now is El peke tarugos tamarind candy. Strong flavor so I take my time nibbling.
Here in Brazil we make a lot of lemonade with tamarind. It is delicious!
Luli Nasser yumm
Luli Nasser wouldn't that be tamarindade? Or do yall mix them with lemons? saw a vid on Brazil fruit market, uh, wanna go so bad. Aunt and uncle in Argentina, so Im planning Rio in a couple years, hopefully.
The Domestead I don't know if there is actually a name for it. We usually just call it "tamarind juice", haha! We take the pulp out of the tamarind and put it in the blender with a little bit of lemonade (juice of a couple of lemons works fine too), with sugar, water and ice. We even make popsicles with it. If you ever come to Brazil, you will love our exotic fruits. I hope you have the chance to get to know it. ;)
Luli Nasser, Love the taste of tamarind & lemons/limes. Mixing together is genius. Can't wait to mix this up. Thanks
Thank you
I love your sense of humor. Watching you react in an honest way. I just discovered it. Having a batch of it from a food bank I had no idea what it was. But I loved the taste and consistency of it. So thrilled to see this . Thanks.
Pai, the Tamarind concentrate from Indian stores can be used for Thai curries (after diluting it ofc). Even in India, the tamarind block (supposedly seedless) is what we use on a daily basis (yes, we use Tamarind in everyday cooking, especially in the South). And even to us, the bottled versions are relatively new - a convenience that most traditional cooks (me included) tend to ignore. :)
Tina Dawson thanks for your comment! I didn't know there were different kinds of tamarind, and ended up accidentally getting the Indian concentrate instead of a thai tamarind. Now I just have to figure out how much to use and how much to dilute it! Have you done this with the India concentrate, Tina? Anyway, thank you =)
U mentioned dates.... The English word tamarind comes from Arabic word "tamar e hind"...which means Indian date
That's interesting. :)
Very cool!
They really look like family
lol!
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your channel is one of my favorite food channel! the way you explain and share youre knowledge is amazing/// you are truely one of the best food youtubers
That God I found this video. I am new to Thai cooking, and recently bought a block of tamarind. The recipe called for 2 tbsp of tamarind paste. So I forced my measuring spoon through the block and made 2 packed tbsp. Something about it didn't look right. Then I tasted it and quickly realized I was definitely doing something wrong! It would have been a catastrophic mistake! Thanks for the video.
I’m glad I’m not alone in doing this!!
With the Pandemic era! I've been exploring Thai food. Love how Thai prepare their Thai paste on mortar and pestle! The "trinity". Thank you for this informative guide on Tamarind. Love your video.
Thank you so much for this! I have been looking for instructions on how to use tamarind pulp and you explained everything I wanted to know! 😊
Thank you for showing this! My local Asian store only has the block kind of tamarind, so this is so helpful. I love your cooking shows. You are so artful with food!!
My parents (from Indonesia) sometimes add tamarind juice to peanut sauce for satay. They typically use the tamarind pulp method since the pulp is easy to store for a long time.
Thanks Pai, that was very educational - and enjoyable as always. Love these "encyclopedic" videos, just as I appreciate you explaining the Thai names of dishes in some detail.
Thank you so much for your videos. Now I know how to buy and use tamarind. I'll be spending the afternoon with your other videos. You make them interesting as well as informative.
I'm so glad I found this! I spontaneously bought a block of tamarind without any idea of how I would use it. Thank you!
Thank you for answering some questions I had about tamarind, very much appreciated! Excellent video, I also really enjoyed the classic pad thai recipe video, it turned out amazing. It's what led me to the world of tamarind lol.
Wow, thank you Pai. That was very thorough. I feel finally enlightened. Not only that I now know what tamarind looks like, how it's used and how it's different in the products as opposed to the traditional 'extraction' method, but also the nuance in type and form of tamarind used in different cuisines. It was very useful for me that you gave lime as a taste reference point too. Thank you.
I live in the South of India, in Kerala. Where we have both kinds of Tamarind, the black concentrated kind and the kind shown here (which is true for most Thai ingredients, I can find Galangal, Kaffir Lime and Lemon grass here - though not used for cooking) and Garcinia gummi-gutta(as an altogether different sour agent). We make this kind of soupy thing that is used with rice, actually poured on it. It's called Rasam and it's made with Tamarind as the main ingredient (whenever Dal is not used). It has one of a kind flavor that I have not yet found elsewhere
hi is this the one you Indians use is to make the pani puri sauce ??
@@samiabrahimi3410 No, that's different. www.vidhyashomecooking.com/kerala-style-rasam-instant-rasam-without-rasam-powder/
That is Rasam. Pani puri sauce uses lime for the sour taste. Both use cilantro in it though.
thank youu
When I make a basic masala, does the tamarind water go in at the end. I use the jar paste kind in the states
@@alexi2460 We usually use it in the beginning either before/during the cooking process.
I learned something new again and i love it. Very helpful video for me in my search ,'what is tamarind,
', thx a lot for making the effort and sharing your work.
Thanks for all the faqs about tamarind. I used it once instead of lime for salsa and it turned out great!
I love your descriptions of all the ingredients that you use. You explain things wonderfully. I have always wandered through ethnic markets everywhere I go. I have eaten tamarind in many dishes and get it as a sauce for samosas. For decades I have seen the pods in the market buy have never bought then. I will have to try them now. Explaining the sweet-sour taste really explains a lot to me.
Thank you for all your thorough and helpful info! I love your videos and share with my foodie friends.
my dad used to bring tamarind from his office (there are tamarind trees in his office, before renovation). my mom like to make candy out of it (only spread the sugar on top of that), and mom always nag at me because the tamarind candy vanish from the bowl even before it can be called candy. she know who the culprit :o
very informative / easy to watch/ a voice that is very pleasant / I actually watched til the end
Love your videos, great, clear and easy to follow information :)
Thank you for creating this video! I love the flavour of tamarind, and thanks to this tutorial, I know a great deal more about it. Your commentary is pragmatic, insightful and cheerful, and your video was fun to watch.
I’ve always wanted to learn more about tamarind. This video was super helpful!
thanks for this video! We use tamarind in making Dolma which are stuffed grape leaves and stuffed squash. We put the tamarind juice in the water of the sauce while cooking the dolma ! I buy the stuff dried but I haven’t ever known how to properly dilute or strain it until watching this video. Thanks 😊
I really love this video. I appreciate the education in this ingredient. I would love to see more informational recipes like this.
outside of Thai cooking, i love those tamarind sodas. believe they are jarritos brand. product of Mexico.
I have no plans to ever cook with tamarind (although I drink the juice and soda) but I could listen to you talk about it all day. Great video!
I really enjoy the video, so informative. I would love to see more videos like this for other Thai ingredients.
I love your videos. I just bought a jar yesterday from a large Asian market. I can't wait to try it. I also bought the pods from a Mexican market so I am glad I saw your video first as I am sure they will be sweet!
I so appreciate your videos on explaining all these ingredients
Chance upon your videos and fell in love with it!!! Thanks for your videos, certainly looking forward to trying out your recipes! 🤗🥰
i use tamarind for tea, mix with goji berry, black tea and other dried fruits that i want to add in the tea pot
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我看过国外亚洲超市叫罗望子，海南那边好像叫酸角
Yingzi Yu ah，对\(^o^)/。 酸角! Yum
Add dried plums too
Always a huge fan of those "show and tell" videos about ingredients.
Thank you for this! I especially appreciate the explanation about sweet and sour and what foods it's used in because I like to cook Indian, but I have also cooked Thai!
I am late to the party on tamarind but found that I love it! I mostly had it Mexican style with chili pepper in candy form. This video was so informative and interesting. I love Thai food and I am going to try and learn how to cook with it. Thank you!
Cheers from Istanbul. The Ottomans used to boil tamarind (demirhindi in Turkish from the same origin meaning Indian date) into what is called a "saray şerbeti" (palace sherbet) enjoyed by the royal population. Modern Turkish cuisine luckily incorporated all those dishes once enjoyed by sultans so now we can try them on as well. Thanks for the info and here's my little addition to it.
Trying tamarind for the first time as I watch your video! I love it.
I use tamarind in fish and crab curry. It's a Sri Lankan staple. Loved the video!
"Holy Mother!"... LOL
i just found tamarinds at my local store and bought them on a whim. they're amazing. i really love the flavor and how they're a bit sour but very sweet. complex. i love it.
Sweet tamarind balls are one of my favourite sweets when visiting my home country, Grenada in the Caribbean. I have enjoyed it ever since I was a small child. Very moreish!
Thank you for explaining so well. The passion you put in to the explanations results in a riveting teaching :)
Thanks for sharing this info. I bought tamarind with no idea of what to do with it, but now I know! Making curry... mmm
I always feel so much smarter after I watch your videos! Thank you.
In Philippines, we use _sampaloc_ (tamarind) for various sour dishes. One major dish that calls for sampaloc is _sinigang_ but there are different version of it that uses other sour ingredients instead. However, my favourite version is _sinigang sa sampaloc_
Thank you for sharing! Ive been very curious about tamarind, Its falvors and uses. Very helpful !
Fresh tamarind found in india can be used for the dishes and I have made a lot of your recipes and it came out perfect.hot Thai kitchen has helped me a lot and I have made a lot of your recipes and they have come out delicious and perfect .thanks a lot Pailin .
Very informative and clear. Thank you!
I love your videos Pai! Very entertaining!
Super helpful, thanks!!
Highly informative, thank you!
Thank you! This is exactly what I wanted to learn about
I have never been to Thailand but I grew up eating tamrind.We had the trees everywhere especially in the school yards
Really informative and helpful! Thank you!
I love the Hi-Tech stuff !!! Keep it in the fridge , often drink it from the jar !!!
So awesome, thank you for a very professional made edited video. Very informative, especially about one of my favorite fruits. Once again thank you, your fun beautiful and have a great personality. God bless to you and yours, and have a wonderful day. P.s., you have a million dollar smile! 😊 again!
Very nice video, good speed and great content!
Hi Pailin! Great information. I got acquainted with fresh tamarind while living in Thailand, and I make my own cooked sauce for my pad Thai. I also use the tamarind pulp in my hibiscus elixir which I make from dried hibiscus flowers, fresh cranberries, and a variety of herbs. The tamarind gives the elixir a nice tartness and refreshing quality. I also add coconut sugar to lightly sweeten it. I love the versatility of tamarind and would encourage all to try it in different ways.
Thanks so much for this info. It's new to me...and your comments helped a lot!
Would like the recipe to make this
What herbs do you use please ;-)
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Thank you so much!
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In Vietnam, we actually use the same method of squeezing out the tamarind juice from the packaged tamarind to make a signature soup called 'canh chua' (literally means sour soup). The Nothern people tend not to add the sugar (but probably MSG?), while the Southern people add sugar instead. Normally, we also cook this with fish heads (ex, snakehead, cobia, or even salmon) to enhance more natural umami sweetness.
Central coast California here; the chain Whole Foods here only sells the Indian style super concentrate, and I've been using that for years in Thai cooking and your recipes. It's not exactly the same (somewhat of a darker, molasses-y) but it still gets the job done, it just has to be diluted with water at about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of water to one tbsp. of concentrate, depending on taste.
It all makes sense now! I followed your Yellow Curry recipe and put 2 Tbsp (!!) of the Indian-esque goopy paste in place of the more diluted juice variety. And wondered why it got so vibrantly sour, lol. Thankfully, it was still absolutely delicious. But this video really cleared things up. Cheers!
Brilliant! Thank you Pailin
My friend gave me what looks to be a good pad thai recipe. I went shopping to find the required ingredients. I found everything but tamarind paste. I did, however, find a block of tamarind. I bought it hoping I could figure out how to incorporate it into pad thai. Your video showed me the way. Now I am ready to make my own tamarind "juice" and move on to the pad thai - Thank You Pailin!!!
Everything I needed to know, excellent!! Now im curious about your channel. Lets see what tamarind and thai recipes you have for me... :P cheers!
Who's still watching this? Hehe
I can't wait to make my Pad Thai Filipino version..
Thank you for this video. Now I know how to make my own Pad Thai sauce 😊😊
all your videos are very sophisticated. Thank you !
when I used to work with Thai people, they sometimes mixed SUPER sour fresh ones with dried chills and sugar. to me it was too sour and spicy but I did enjoy eating it !
This is a great, GREAT video, thank you so much.
thank you sooo much.. I WAS GOING to use ''the tamarind'' I found at my local supermarket to make PAD THAI.. which I found out through watcing your video was SUPER SWEET and NOT what I needed to make PAD THAI .. thank you sooo much ..♥
It is also used in Middle-Eastern cooking. One popular hors d'oeuvre is chopped meat, with minced onion doused in a tamarind sauce and spread atop pizza type dough rounds. they are about the size of the palm of your hand and the tamarind sauce is dark, almost black.
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Those are so delicious! Though I’m forgetting what they’re called
This video was very helpful. Thank u!
What a terrific video. I use tamarind when I make a pulled/shredded pork. It is so much tastier than BBQ sauce that is full of sugar and other sweeteners.
Other uses for tamarind:
1) Tamarind "extact" is wonderful when thinned by about 1/3 to 1/2 with water and sweetened as a liquid drink that can also make a frozen sorbet (with the frequent stirring to reduce the size of ice crystals).
2) Tamarind "paste" - either seedless or from the pod - makes wonderful ice cream, just dilute the paste with milk/cream instead of water. Obviously sugar required to counteract the sour flavor profile.
3) Tamarind "paste" can be transformed into a dessert curd, think lemon curd.
4) just take the pulp out of the pod - free from the "strings" but seed still insde and roll in granulated sugar like a candy.
your videos are always fabulous. If you tried, I think you would be the next Food Network Star in the USA. You just have a natural talent.
BTW, can you recommend so good Thai grocers in Vancouver, BC? I love TnT bu they're mostly Chinese food stuffs.
Oooh tamarind sorbet. I'm going to try that!
Though I probably won't buy tamarind, I still clicked on this video because I love watching your videos :P They're so informative and interesting to watch. In my opinion your videos are by far better than cooking shows on tv
Thanks for sharing. I just subscribed. Thai dishes are among my favorite cuisines. There was a restaurant on 23rd Street in Chelsea where I used to get tamarind chicken every time I went before the pandemic. Unfortunately, it closed down.
Hi Pailin! In Mexico we used it for: Candy’s, hot drinks and fresh and cold tamarind water to drink with lots of ice in a hot day. Love Thai food.
Thank you so much!! I can only get the pulp and I was so confused on how to use it!
As a kid we made drinks with the tamarind.Add little sugar and drinking soda and ice.Awesome
yes ur right being an indian.....i can say indian tamarind concentrate available here in australia is very thick and black....however as u said diluted with water makes it work for all ur recipes that i have tried and i am in luv with thai cuisine....i make it atleast twice a week
I just bought tamarind pulp and your video was very helpful, cause I had only a vague idea of how to use it.
Thank heaven for your video! I ordered Tamarind online and they sent me this brick! I was like, what on earth do I do with this?
Now I know! Thank you!
Thank you! My husband loves tamerind candy. So now that I understand how to you it, I will use it in cooking.
Very cool. I wish there were channels doing these kinds of videos for other types of cuisines as well.
I have a friend from a Mexican family, and she told me that they make aqua fresca from tamrind--it's a drink kind of like lemondade with a fruit flavor. Very refreshing.
Your videos are always so informative!
so true! I love her style of explaining the different items. So great!
Andy Kay Yep, she always explains how certain ingredients give a particular flavor for her dishes along with substitutes and suggestions for those ingredients! She is awesome!
I am really grateful for this video. I have long wondered about various tamarind products. I have experience eating tamarind in Thai cuisine but I haven't understood how to purchase it or how to use the different forms available. I see tamarind products, and especially tamarind pods, in Latin markets. I enjoy Mexican tamarind soda and tamarind candy, especially with a little hot chile. I now feel much less intimidated by it as an ingredient.
We use tamarind in Vietnamese cooking like in sticky pork tamarind hock. Delicious! Love your channel.
Thanks for explaining. My local Food Basics grocery store carries boxes of the fresh pods so good to know how to eat it. Cheers!
Thank you for sharing ❤ It's very famous here in the Arabian Penisula. I've seen it in the stores in many forms. It's mainly used to make juice or eaten raw. It's a new cooking ingredient for me. I've see many recipes use it as a replacement for soy sauce so I wanted to know exactly what it was and how I can use it.
Tamarind in Philippines is called Sampaloc. Mainly used in soups like Sinigang & Sinampalukan. Can be candied also.
This is very useful info. Thank you.