The tamarind chutney used for North Indian chaat (street food snacks) is a sweet-sour-spiced reduction that combines tamarind with jaggery, ginger, cumin, and chilli into a condiment of extraordinary complexity. It is served at room temperature alongside other chutneys (green coriander-mint chutney and yogurt) — the three chutneys together representing the three-flavour complement to fried snacks: sour-sweet, sharp-fresh-herb, and cooling dairy.
- Tamarind water (concentrated) reduced with jaggery until thick and syrupy - Ginger (fresh grated), dried ginger, cumin, chilli, chaat masala added during reduction - The consistency: thick enough to drizzle from a spoon in a slow, heavy flow — not pourable, not set - [VERIFY] Alford and Duguid's specific chaat chutney recipe.
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