Pineapple & Tamarind Mixer

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Up your mixed drink game with this sweet & sour mixer that will refresh and delight your tastebuds. Make the components ahead of time from fresh ingredients and keep them in the fridge to stir up this tasty drink in a jiffy.

Prep Time: 60 min

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 2 cups fresh pineapple juice

• 165mL hot water

• 45g tamarind pulp

• 100mL maple syrup

• 1/4 cup fresh lime juice + 1 whole lime

• 1 tsp Tajin

• Crushed Ice

  
  

Directions

Prepare Pineapple Juice

1. Dice up a pineapple and blend fruit. Strain through a mesh sieve to collect 2 cups of pineapple juice. Set aside.

Prepare Tamarind & Maple Mixture

1. Add 1/2 cup of hot water along with tamarind pulp into a measuring cup. Let the tamarind soften and break up for about 15 min in the hot water, agitating and stirring.

2. Strain through a mesh sieve and reserve the liquid in a jar.

3. Return the tamarind chunks in the strainer to the measuring cup and add an additional 40 mL of water. Stir and agitate the mixture to extract as much flavour from the tamarind as possible.

4. Strain again through a mesh sieve and reserve the liquid in a jar.

5. Add 100mL of maple syrup to the tamarind juice and set aside in the fridge to cool.

Prepare drink

1. Slice a lime into wedges and use a wedge to wet the rim of a rocks glass.

2. Coat the rim with Tajin.

3. Add crushed ice to the glass.

4. For one drink add 1/2 cup pineapple juice, 1/4 cup tamarind mixture & 1 tbsp lime juice. Stir and serve with a fresh slice of lime.

   
   

Zhuzh it up!

• This drink is great as an anytime Mocktail, but add a bit of tequila or mezcal to bring it to the next level

• Fresh ingredients for this make it best, but in a pinch a carton of pineapple juice and bottled lime juice with make due.

This amazing recipe was adapted from the Pineapple and Tamarind Cooler by Gregory Gourdet on Food&Wine