Happy Panda Seedless Tamarind Paste 14 Ounce Package (Imli | Me Chua | Tamarindo)

A lot of “seedless” tamarind products are NOT seedless. This product is fairly clean. I added a little bit of water in a sauce pan and gently heated it up until it more or less dissolved into the water. I passed it through a fine mesh strainer and had very little waste. I would recommend this product as one that is fairly easy to work with. Made an awesome Pad Thai and a delicious bbq sauce out of it. If you need tamarind, this is a good product.

I teach homeschoolers Spanish and endeavor to expose them to all kinds of things they haven’t experienced around the language, which includes food. I knew tamarind and knew it to be somewhat sweet when you open it from the husk. Well, I caused some laughter when I shared my experience making some cookies to share with them. I expected this to be sweet. Well, picture the sourest lemon you can imagine, then intensify that by two or three fold. My face did some contortions I didn’t know it could do! In the end, after removing tamarind and adding sweetener, the cookies turned out good (think “tamarind Newtons”). As it was so sour, I did get far too much tamarind paste!

Having never bought or worked with tamarind paste before, I'm probably not the best person to write a review. But, I suspect there are plenty of others who are looking to try a new recipe as well. For me, it was a copycat version of the sauce that the Cheesecake Factory serves with their avocado egg rolls. I absolutely love it, and wanted to make something like that myself. This paste comes in the form of a brick. There are some seeds throughout, but they are easily identified and removed. It was easy to scoop into a measuring spoon and put into the pan. Not knowing what it was supposed to look like, how it was supposed to melt, etc. all I had to go on was the end result. The first recipe I tried did not come out well. But, I suspected that was the recipe and not the tamarind. So, I found another recipe and tried again. This time, my sauce was AMAZING! The tamarind melted well with the other ingredients, and my sauce was fantastic. The only complaint I have is that I wish it came in smaller packages. Between the two recipes, I don't even think I used a tablespoon. I have enough paste to do that about 40 more times!

Gran cantidad no la he usado pero se ve de buena calidad

Excellent quality. Delicious. Well packaged.

This is kind of a strange product, but it was exactly what my recipe called for. There IS a difference between tamarind PULP and tamarind PASTE. This is tamarind PULP. It basically includes I think pieces of the tamarind pods--seeds, peels, etc. My recipe instructions said to mix with boiling water, kind of mash/break up the pulp, then let it sit for 30 minutes. Then you pour into a fine-mesh strainer and press the solids down to get a liquid. That is exactly what this product did. And, I'm glad I could buy a smaller amount (it's still a good-sized block considering my recipe only called for 1 1/2 T. and it was one of the cheapest tamarind pulp products on Amazon. My curry turned out wonderful, and I'm glad this was exactly what my recipe said it would be.

Too much pieces of shell in product, not able to use

This tamarind paste has a nice flavor, but it most definitely contains seeds. Small, hard seeds. There is also a proposition 65 warning on the package, but the only listed ingredients are tamarind and salt so I’m not sure what to make of that.