Tamarind / Imli

A popular fruit spice with a sour sweet taste. Tamarind pulp is added in dishes such as chutneys or other sauces to give it a tang. Very popular ingredients for making sweet pickles, chutneys and in South Indian cuisine.

The ripe fruit of tamarind tree is used as a condiment. It is a moderate size to large, evergreen tree. Bark is brown or dark gray, longitudinally and horizontally fissured.Flowers are small, yellowish with pink stripes, more or less constricted between seeds, slightly curved, brownish coloured. dark brown shining. Endocarp is light brownish, sweetish or acidic, edible pulp, traversed by branched ligneous strands. The outer cover of the pod is fragile and easily separable.