How to make tamarind pulp

Ingredients:

Tamarind - lemon size
Salt - as required
Jaggery - 1 tsp
Water - 1 cup

Method:

1) In a vessel, add water and allow it to boil.
2) When water starts boiling add jaggery , salt, Jaggery and allow it to boil for 5 mins.
3) Cool this mixture and squeeze the pulp from the tamarind.

Note:

1) Sugar or dates syrup / paste can be substituted for jaggery.
2) As the pulp is too thick enough, water can be added or less amount can be added to Sambhar, rasam etc.,

3) Jaggery can be optional when boiling. Only tamarind salt and Water can be used for boiling and extracting pulp.