tamarind boy - balls kadhi girl wedding

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:what, SIs have the copyright on tamarind now? fyi only - balls kadhi is one of my most fave dishes of all times. one of my aunts make it for me whenever we are visiting. Not the super spicy (punju?) kind though.


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MaxEntropy_Man wrote:i know someone who is married into a bengali family who is snidely referred to as the imli pani girl. so i thought tamarind is generally a southern indian thing. anyway besides that awful date tamarind chutney that is often served with samosas, do any northindian dishes make use of tamarind or tamarind paste?

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:i know someone who is married into a bengali family who is snidely referred to as the imli pani girl. so i thought tamarind is generally a southern indian thing. anyway besides that awful date tamarind chutney that is often served with samosas, do any northindian dishes make use of tamarind or tamarind paste?

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:i know someone who is married into a bengali family who is snidely referred to as the imli pani girl. so i thought tamarind is generally a southern indian thing. anyway besides that awful date tamarind chutney that is often served with samosas, do any northindian dishes make use of tamarind or tamarind paste?

those mean bongs… imli pani? what does that mean? what's pani for? Not sure of bong cuisine… i thought tamarind was used in one of the seafood recipes. 

i can't speak for all northindian cuisine as my knowledge is limited. in our homes, imli is used whenever anything has to be made slightly sour. We have used it as variations to amchur or lemon. i know it's the main ingredient of marathi dish amti, which is the variation (or mother?) of sambhar. Whenever we make kaddu it's with tamarind and jaggary and methidana or sweet neem for bitter. Another example is saunth for dahi bada. Sometimes in chhole dish. Will list more when i remember. 

and wait, now the imli chutney is awful? i love it.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:i have eaten plenty of northindian food. many restaurants in andheri and vt station and a few dhabas we used to frequent. i like punjabi food just fine, but can't have it every day. granted i haven't had much northindian food outside punjabi food.

now maharashtrian cuisine i like very much. i can have it every day and won't bore of it.

eta: was written in response to another post which has since been removed.