Here is one way to use tamarind... Cooking without tomatoes
A number of healers from North India are telling us that the one aspect of Diet & Lifestyle that they have not been able to implement is cooking without tomatoes because they don't know how! Well, all you do really is replace the tomatoes with the juice of a lemon sized tamarind (imli) ball. Wash the tamarind to remove bits of hard shell and dirt. Boil in 2 cups of water for about 10 minutes. Cool. Thoroughly rub the tamarind between your fingers until all the pulp has left it and is now in the cooking water. Add some more water if the pulp is too thick to strain. Strain through a not so fine sieve. Add this juice to whichever vegetable or daal (lentil) you are cooking. For a change use lemon at the end of the cooking. Mango powder can be used sometimes but it does not have the positive qualities that tamarind has. If tamarind is boiled well it will not "catch" your throat. It is a powerful antacid - tomatoes are acidic. Tamarind is invaluable in places where there is too much fluoride in the ground water (causing Flourosis in which bones get deformed) - it has the capacity to bind the fluoride and remove it from the body. We also have a Flourosis Sanjeevini in the new lot of Sanjeevinis being sent with this newsletter. I hope this is helpful. PT ----- Original Message ----- From: Melly Bag To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 3:13 PM Subject: CS>Re: silver-digest Digest V2010 #651 Steve, Thanks. Do you know where i can find instructions on how to use the tamarind pulp? Do i make a juice out of it? I wonder if the moringa oleifera seeds would remove it as well, it being used in Africa and elsewhere to clean water. Thanks. melly --- On Fri, 7/23/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: silver-digest Digest V2010 #651 To: [email protected] Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 2:26 PM
