Date & Tamarind Sauce

 

Date & Tamarind Sauce

Ingredients

• 150g wet tamarind preferably seedless
• 125g pitted dates
• 1 tbsp sugar (if you have it use jaggery date palm sugar)
• 1 tsp ginger powder
• ½ tsp garam masala
• 1 tsp ground cumin

Instructions

1. Break up the tamarind and dates and put them in a pan with the sugar and enough water to cover them, about 500ml. 
2. Bring to a simmer and cook for 20 mins or until the tamarind is really soft.
3. Remove the pan from the heat and push the pulp through a sieve to remove any fibres. The sauce should be a coating consistency – add a little water if it is too thick.
4. Stir in the ginger powder, garam masala and ground cumin. The sauce should taste sweet and tart – stir in a little more sugar or jaggery if it doesn’t taste sweet enough (the recipe that I used required 175g of jaggery or sugar which for me was too much... I wanted that tart quality to come out in the sauce)
5. Chill before serving.

The sauce should last for 3 to 4 days in the fridge.