Jihva for Ingredients aka JFI as it is known among the food bloggers is one of the most popular food blogging events out there. JFI is the brainchild of Indira of Mahanandi, who started this event to celebrate and showcase a different natural ingredient every month. The pleasure of hosting JFI this month is all mine, thank you Indira for this opportunity!
The chosen ingredient this month is Tamarind. Tamarind is an essential ingredient in Indian cuisine and is widely used in other Asian, Latin American and Caribbean cuisines. It is also one of the main ingredients of Worcestershire sauce, a popular condiment in the Western cuisine. In other words, Tamarind is truly a universal ingredient, so I am sure there are tons of recipes out there using this very versatile fruit. The popularity of tamarind is evident from the fact that there is at least one restaurant called Tamarind something or Something Tamarind in most cities.
Tamarind is available for purchase in most speciality food stores and Asian and Latin American grocery stores in the form of paste, pulp, juice, concentrate and even as a whole fruit form when in season. I just picked up a large box of Sweet Tamarind from Whole Foods market. So there are no excuses like you can’t find Tamarind! Let’s get those creative juices flowing, you can make anything edible using any form of Tamarind.
Rules for participation
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Prepare a dish from any cuisine using Tamarind in any form and post it in your blog in the month of June. The deadline is July 1st. There is no limit to the number of entries you can contribute.
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Make sure your post includes a link to this announcement and to the main JFI page. Feel free to use one of these logos.
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Please use the entry form below to submit the details, this way none of the e-mails will get lost in spam and will also help the round up process. Please, only if you have trouble using the form, send me an e-mail with the required information. My e-mail id is maillivetoeat (@) gmail (dot) com .
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If you want me to include an image in the round up, please enter the link to the image in the form below. To get the link to the image, follow the steps below:
–If using Internet Explorer, right click on the image and select Properties. The link is shown in Address (URL) field, you can use your mouse to select and copy this URL and paste it in the field below.
–If using Firefox, right click on the image and select Copy Image Location. Now you should be able to paste this using Ctrl + V in the field below.
Please let me know if you have any questions. If you don’t enter a path to the image, I will use the first image in the post.
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Great choice for JFI Sig…
I made sumthing today ..will post and send the details tmrw.. 
Siri :(Martini):
Love the tamarind, and can’t live (=cook dal) without tamarind.
Thank you Sig for featuring this excellent natural ingredient for Jihva.
Tamarind is a favorite with all of us.. My husband loves it too :drool: ..ha ha
Excellent choice.For us everyday cooking needs tamarind…
hmmm, interesting choice! shud find something interesting to make!
Lovely choice……
tamarind is a wonderful choice, Sig! I have something for this event,shall post it soon.
Great choice… The word tamarind is enough to make my mouth water.
lovely sig..will send something in !
umm hmm … good good… will prepare southie coz of this.. and garg will have to have it…
Hey sig I know why you choose tamarind, you want all of us to try Siv’s famous :(Martini): with tamarind.
I am in as one use tamaring a lot.
Great choice
Fun theme :(Yes):
That’s super cool an ingredient! Awesome choice babe.
great choice
Lovely choice, Sig! And very neat design to send entries for the event! You are one creative gal
Love your styles of formatting
But i wont do that as I like you very much…
Tamarind is the perfect ingredient, anyway as I’m doing a traditional lunch series, I could send you one entry every day
Only if you’ll try and figure why my posts don’t appear on Taste of India
Hugs
ooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. No limit to the number of entries, right??? Love you Sig
fantastic idea, sig. gotta find something unusual for you
Count me in Sig!!!!!
:(Yes):
That’s a nice theme
:(Yes): girl, count me in!!! that a lovely, lovely pic of tamarind:)
This is amma’s most favorite ingredient. We cannot simply live wihtout this. I will be having quite some entries Sig!
Sig!!
Wowww!! Tamarind eh!! I cannot make dals or sambhar without using tamarind. I just love it!!!
Can’t wait to cook something for u now!!
I will definitely make something with tamarind, provided I find the tamarind I want. Just one look at the picture and I knew what to make…a good pick Sig!
That was a nice choice Sig.
my entries are coming right away….tamrind…i use it almost daily …u have made it easy for me
WOW AWESOME CHOICE, AND THE PICTURE IS TOO GOOD WITH THE REDDISH PULP SHOWING.
I love tamarind!!! It’s definitely one my favorite ingredients! Will try to make something worthy of this choice! :party: :(Yes):
Lovely choice of ingredient Sig and an entry form? How cool is that?!
Hey Sig,
First off lovely site and lovely pics. New to the food blogosphere; Had a question about JFI does the recipe have to be our brain child or can it be a spin off of something that our moms have cooked or something that you would find off of the net (with proper references of course) and how do you deal with duplicate dishes sent across? Hope you find sometime to answer, looking forward to the event
-Aparna
http://threemangoes.blogspot.com
P.S: Indira’s site is down hence bombarding you with all the q’s
Wow..what a nice way of announcing the event Sig. I love the cute form you created to send the entries.
Good choice Sig! I should be able to send u a bunch of entries what with us using tamarind all the time! Cute logo and smart form
Hey sig,
Thanks a bunch for answering all my questions. Will send you some recipes by the scheduled date. Hope to see see you around
-A
oh wow!! I should be able to come up with something for this…. Tamarind is used in almost all curries in south india!! love the pic, btw!
:(Yes): A beautiful choice.. The bared tamarind is making me =P~ !
Great choice. I can make a dish and send to 3 events this time!
tamarind is a great choice..you know it has been weeks i have used it!..aah finally
Hi, mailed u my entry because I cudnt submit the form…hope u got it….
Aha! What a wonderful pick. I am all set.
Sig - I just sent u my entry. Hope u received it!
Siri :(Flower):
I sent it too with first photo at Aroma post, but didn’t get any confirmation like Bee’s form. Wondering if you got it!:)
Sig- I just sent you my second entry..hope u recieved it…
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:party:
I sent my first entry
Just sent in my entry - looking forward to the round up!
i love the entry form idea! its really cool!!
have sent u mine
hi sig i sent my entry for the JFI tamarind , plz let me know if u got it or no.
Take care
sabita
Hi Sig, just sent you an entry :)..Thank you for hosting.
What a pity, I posted tamarind balls recenlty but it was in May. Anyway, I’m looking forward the round-up to see what other’s will make
Margot
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