HappyPanda 14 Ounce Seedless Tamarind Paste Pack (Imli | Me Chua | Tamarindo)

I've ordered and reviewed other Tamarind brands. I decided to give Happy Panda a try because there product is affordable and I really like that they're not forcing me to buy two at a time. This brand is really sour just what I was looking for. I really like how it's super seedless. If I could I would give the Happy Panda Brand an AWARD for freshness & the most clean Tamarind wet block I've ever brought. Omg, I made a juice with gun powder green tea and this Tamarind was the star of my tea. Wowza, the taste and sourness of this product is truly AMAZING. Exactly what I craved & wanted. In my opinion HAPPY PANDA is a quality Tamarind brand that's second to none. I'm not easily impressed but Happy Pandas Tamarind 14 ounce package is as good as it gets. You guy's have just earned a customer for life. I love your product & I highly recommend it.

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!

So delicious and fresh!

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!