Comments on: Tamarinds and lemons say the bells of near south Minneapolis

Question: Tamarinds and lemons say the bells of near south Minneapolis

Frowner — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:53:31 -0800

Give me your recipes containing lime! Or lemon or tamarind! Certain restrictions may apply.

I recently had an incredibly delicious sour broth which contained lime, tamarind or both. I've developed a yearning for all things lemon-, lime- or tamarind-containing. (Please assume tamarind concentrate or tamarind paste but fresh limes and lemons.)

What do you cook that contains these things? Any recipe welcome, from dessert to salad. Caveat: recipes must be useful within vegetarian cooking, so if you make a great lemon sauce to use on fish, I'd be glad to use it on vegetables, but something with integral meat (tamarind pork sausage! Lime bacon!) doesn't work as well. If dishes could contain minimal eggs, that would be great - but don't hold back on that account.

By: Ruthless Bunny

Ruthless Bunny — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:05:04 -0800

How about Pad Thai?

It uses tamarind and limes and it is soooo divine!

By: crush-onastick

crush-onastick — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:09:03 -0800

This is a lime-coconut milk-cilantro-miso dish, but you could probably bring tamarind into it. It's vegetarian and delicious.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:20:50 -0800

Thai red curry paste can use tamarind as an ingredient. The dish itself uses Kaffir lime leaves. I use a cookbook, but this recipe looks pretty close. Thai cooking does use fish sauce; however, some Asian grocery stores will carry vegetarian replacements.

By: sportbucket

sportbucket — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:39:58 -0800

The Tamarind Whiskey Sour includes both lime and tamarind! And is delicious! Hoo-baby!

By: atomicstone

atomicstone — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:51:23 -0800

Lemon curd. Homemade lemon curd. I made it for the first time last week when creating this awesome lemon curd apple rosette tart that I cobbled together from a few different recipes.
Homemade lemon curd tastes a billion times better than a jar, and this recipe is crazy easy. No straining! Like lemon square mush x sunshine and love.
I want some lemon curd now.
You could, of course, also make lime curd!

By: tavegyl

tavegyl — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:17:11 -0800

Try tamarind with aubergine. This is my own totally made up recipe:

Heat 1/2 tsp mustard seeds in oil till they pop.

Add onions, lightly brown, then and sliced garlic and cook till aromatic.

Add 1 sliced green chilli, fry about 30 seconds.

When garlic softens, add diced aubergine.

Meanwhile, soften tamarind in boiling water. (Never used paste, sorry, but you can always add more to taste)

When aubergine starts softening, add tamarind.

Cover with lid and cook on low heat till aubergine is done, adding a splash of water and salt as needed.

Goes very well with a simple red lentil daal on basmati rice. I sometimes liven it up by adding a teaspoon unsweetened dessicated coconut at the mustard seed stage (should be slightly browned) and fresh curry leaves with the tamarind. I also sometimes add diced courgettes.

However - if you want something truly fun to eat, try pani puri. It's easy though laborious to make at home and you eat it filled with a delicious tangly tamarind water, dosed with vodka for added fun. Note that though the recipe doesn't say so, they crisp better if left out overnight or even longer.

By: WasabiFlux

WasabiFlux — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:18:30 -0800

Indian lemon or lime pickles! 1, 2, 3.

By: The Master and Margarita Mix

The Master and Margarita Mix — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:25:54 -0800

This is the best lemon bar recipe in the world.

I put lime in pretty much everything even vaguely Mexican flavored I make, but more as a seasoning than an ingredient. It goes really well in tortilla soup, which I don't really have a set recipe for.

I would also look into making ALL THE FRUIT-BASED SALSAS and ALL THE CEVICHES.

By: amber_dale

amber_dale — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:15:59 -0800

Lemon sticky buns. By far the best roll of their kind that I've had.

Lemon cream quinoa with spinach. Vegetarian and delicious for breakfast or dinner.

By: mon-ma-tron

mon-ma-tron — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:44:30 -0800

Nthing Pad Thai. I use Mark Bittman's recipe from How to Cook Everything.

By: Malla

Malla — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:29:04 -0800

Best dressing for salad: Roast about 1 T cumin seeds in a dry pan. Grind up. Add 1/4 cup olive oil, 2 t honey, and the juice of 1/2 lime. Whisk and enjoy!

By: Lexica

Lexica — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:30:08 -0800

Suvir Saran's recipe for Black Pepper Rasam with Tamarind is outstanding. (Note, although the ingredients list for the spice mix calls for "yellow split peas", you really want urad dal, as the written directions indicate.)

There was also this earlier AskMe looking for tamarind recipes, in case you haven't seen it yet.

By: piyushnz

piyushnz — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:43:39 -0800

Gado Gado - uses lime and tamarind (optionally).

By: lakeroon

lakeroon — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:34:24 -0800

I made this couscous salad recently - most of the dressing is lemon juice and it was wonderful.