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Jack fruit dishes
recipe book
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Documented by Priya.H Guided by Mrs .Radhika Prasad Kerala Statae Institute Of Design Chandanathope 2020 4
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to thank Kerala State Institute Of Design and Mrs. Radhika Prasad ,the course coordinator for giving me the opportunity to take recipe book as my subject for our publication design course ,her guid helpfull throughout my process. i would also like to thank my family for supporting me, with out you non of this would indeed be possible. I would like to extend my gratitude towards to all relatives ,friends and other who shared the recipes and the their support ,either morally physically ..... Thank you
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CONTENT
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Jackfruit chilli
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Jackfruit seed fry
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Jackfruit cutlet
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Jackfruit shake
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Jackfruit steamed cakes
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Jackfruit rice fritter
32-35
Jackfruit Chatni
36-39
Jackfruit Payasam
40-43
Jackfruit Halwa
44-47
Jackfruit seed shake
48-51
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CONTENT
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Jackfruit fritter
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Jackfruit vadai
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Jackfruit unda
60-63
Jack fruit Pappad
64-67
Jackfruit icecream
68-71
Jackfruit puttu
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Jackfruit juice
76-79
Jackfruit sweet Halwa
80-83
Jackfruit curry
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Jackfruit pickle
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jackfruit chilli 13
jackfruit chilli Preparation: Step 1: Marinate jack fruit pieces with ingredients from 2 to 7 add enough water to coat well. Step 2: Deep fry them in hot oil on medium flame until crispy and done . Step 3: Fry some curry leaves and green chilies in the same oil and garnish it on top of fried jack fruit. Step 4: Serve warm and enjoy the crispy bites.
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Ingredients: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Raw Jackfruit chopped-2 cup Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp Kashmiri chilly powder-1 1/2 tbsp Corn flour-2 tbsp Flour (maida)- 1 1/2 tbsp Salt-to taste Garam masala-1/2 tsp (optional) Oil-for deep frying Curry leaves-few Green chilly-few
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jackfruit seed fry 17
jackfruit seed fry Preparation: Step 1: Clean the Seeds Remove the thin white filmlike skin and keep aside. Step 2: Cut the Seeds. Step 4: Cook the Seeds. • Place the seeds in an open utensil, add 2 pinch salt and water till the seeds are immersed. Cook for 15-20 mins till the seeds get soft. • You can also cook in a pressure cooker. Pressure cook for 2-3 whistles Step 4: Drain and Keep the Seeds Aside. Step 5: FryHeat a pan with oil. 1. Add mustard seeds and let it crackle. 2. Add urad dal, curry leaves and cook.
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Ingredients: • • • • • • • • •
Jackfruit seeds - 1 Cup Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp Urad dal (black lentil) - 3/4 tsp Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp Sambar powder - 2 tsp Chilly powder-1 tsp Curry leaves - 1 sprig Oil -2 tbsp Salt - to taste
3. Put on low flame and add sambar powder, turmeric powder, chilly powder, salt and stir. 4. Now add the cooked jackfruit seeds and mix everything well. Let it cook for another 5 min. 5. Serve hot.
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jackfruit cutlet
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jackfruit cutlet Preparation: Step 1: Cube and boil raw jackfruit in little salted water.Discard water.Boil 1 potato and mash it with the jackfruit.Also add freshly ground bread slices.Add turmeric,red chilli powder,meat masala, garam masala, chopped coconut,gramflour (besan),salt and sugar to taste,ginger garlic paste,chopped green chillies and mash all.Heat 2 tbsp oil and fry chopped onion. Then add the mashed lump and toss till dry and well fried.Sprinkle raisins and chopped coriander and toss. Step 2: Make cutlets out of the fried mix.Make a semi thick batter of cornflour and maida.Dip one cutlet in it and toss in breadcrumbs.Allow it to set for an hour in fridge.Then fry the cutlets golden brown.Serve with any dips of your choice or hot and sweet tomato sauce
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Ingredients: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
1 small bowl cubed raw jackfruit 1 potato cubed 2 tbsp gramflour 1 onion chopped 1 tsp ginger paste 1 tsp garlic paste 1 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder 1/4 tsp turmeric 1/2 tsp garam masala 1 tsp meat masala 1 tbsp chopped coconut chips 1 tbsp raisins 3 green chillies chopped 1 tbsp chopped coriander 1 bowl breadcrumbs 2 sliced bread crumbs 4 tbsp cornflour and maida To taste salt and sugar 1 cup oil
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jackfruit shake
jackfruit shake Preparation: step 1- Chop the jackfruit. Remove the seeds. Add the chopped jackfruit in a blender jar. step2- Add the coconut milk and powdered jaggery. step 3- Blend till smooth and then add the ice cubes and 1/4 cup water. step4- Blend again with the ice cubes. For a thinner consistency you can add some water. step5- Serve jackfruit shake immediately.
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Ingredients: 1. 250 grams ripe jackfruit or 1.25 cups chopped jackfruit 2. 200 ml thick coconut milk, about ¾ to 1 cup thick coconut milk 3. 2 to 3 tablespoon powdered jaggery or add as required 4. ¼ to ½ cup water or as required 5. 6 to 8 ice cubes (optional) 6. 1 to 2 tablespoon finely chopped jackfruit for garnish (optional) 7. 6 to 8 chopped cashews for garnish (optional)
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jackfruit steamed cakes
jackfruit cakes Preparation: step 1- Soak 1 ¼ cup raw rice for 5 hours and then pound it into fine rice powder. step 2- Sieve to get fine. Then roast ground rice powder in medium flame until entire moisture is removed step 3- You will be able draw a line clearly with rice powder if it is dried well. If you want you can pulse them once more to get uniform texture. I skipped that part. step 4- In blender puree the jack fruit and set aside. step 5- In a small bowl add jaggery and ¼ cup water until it melted completely. step 6- Then strain for impurities. step 7- Bring back to heat and add the jackfruit puree and cook until it thickened about 3540 minutes. step 8- To this a roasted rice powder and coconut and cardamom powder. step 9- Mix everything into dough. step 10- Cut banana leaf into small squares, and slightly wilt them in open flame, that way it will be easy pliable. 30
Ingredients: 1. 20 Jack fruit (you will get 1 ¼ cup jack fruit puree) 2. 1 cup Jaggery( Raw Indian sugar) 3. 2 cup roasted rice flour 4. ½ cup water 5. ½ cup fresh grated coconut 6. 5 cardamom pods( seeded) 7. Ghee for brushing banana leaves
step 11- Then brush the banana leaves with ghee step 12- and place small round dough in the center step13 - and spread it into in ½ inch circle. step14 - Fold it into two then fold once again to form a wrap. step15- Place it in a steamer and cook for 15-20minutes step16 - or until banana leafs color changes. step17 - Once it is cool enough to touch remove the wrapper and enjoy with hot tea.
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jackfruit rice sweet fritter
jackfruit fritter Preparation:
1. skewer Grind ripe jack fruit into a fine puree without any water and set aside. 2. Melt Jaggery with ¼ cup of water and sieve with a strainer, to remove impurities if any are present. 3. If you want you can fry the coconut pieces into ghee and add to the rest of ingredients, I skipped that part. 4. In a bowl add jack fruit puree, melted and strained jaggery, 5. rice flour, coconut pieces, ghee, baking soda, crushed cardamom 6. and water to make a thick pancake batter. Keep it aside for 30 minutes 7. Heat oil in appakara (similar to Aebleskiver Pan and when it ready (around 365F) 8. add batter to the mold.
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Ingredients: 1. 2 cup Rice flour Both store bought or homemade is fine 2. 1/2 cup Jaggery 3. 15 Ripe Jackfruits pieces made into puree about 1 cup 4. 2 Cardamom crushed 5. ½ cup Coconut pieces you can reduce the amount of coconut or you can skip it if you don’t like it 6. 1 teaspoon Ghee/clarified butter 7. 6 cardamom or ¼ teaspoon cardamom powder 8. 1/2 cup Water 9. Peanut oil: for frying
9. As one side ready (after 3 minutes) turn and cook the other side also (4 minutes). Remove it from the appakara when a comes out clean. Repeat the process until the entire batter is finished.
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jackfruit chatni
jackfruit chatni Preparation: step1. Roasted the seeds in tawa step2. Cover it with lid step3. When it will be little tender.switch of the flame step4. After cooling.take out the skin step5. Crushed it with any heavy things step6. Now add chopped onion green chilli salt and mustard oil step7. Mix it nicely
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Ingredients: 1. 2 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
water 1 cupcoconut grated As needed Dry seeds of jackfruit 1 chopped onion 1 Green chilli 1 tsp mustard oil salt
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jackfruit payasam
jackfruit payasam Preparation: 1. Slice some coconut and chop it finely. Keep aside. Slit and open the jack fruit. Take out the seed and a thin skin over it. Finely chop the fruit. 2. In a pan, heat 2 tsp of ghee, roast cashew nuts until golden. Keep aside, fry raisins in the same ghee until it bloats, set aside. Fry coconut bits until golden.
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Jackfruit(pala sulai) – 6 Jaggery – 3/4 cup Coconut milk, thick – 1 cup Ghee – 4 tsp Cashew nuts – 5 Raisins – 10 Coconut, chopped – 2 tbsp Cardamom – 1, powdered Dry ginger powder – A pinch Cumin seeds, roasted & pow– a pinch
3. In the same pan, add remaining ghee and sautee the chopped jackfruit until soft in medium or low flame. Say for 2 mins. 4. Transfer to a heavy bottomed vessel and add 1 & 1/4 cup water. Cook in low flame or medium flame until soft.
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5. In another pan, boil little water just to immerse jaggery. Heat until the jaggery melts. Filter it in the cooked jackfruit.
7. Add thick coconut milk and boil for 2-3 minutes in low flame. Add dry ginger powder, cardamom powder and roasted cumin seeds powder. Mix well.
6. Add more water if needed and simmer for 5 minutes. Let it boil well and get thick.
8. Once thick, lastly add the ghee roasted nuts, raisins and coconut bits. Mix well.
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jackfruit Halwa
jackfruit varatti Preparation:
step1. Deseed the flesh pieces of the jackfruit and chop them into small pieces. step2. Pressure cook the chopped jackfruit pieces with one cup of water for 6-8 whistles or until soft. step3. Ground this cooked jackfruit in a mixer grinder to a paste and let it cool to the room temperature. step4. In a heavy bottomed pan or in wide vessel like “Uruli� transfer jackfruit paste and allow all the water to disappear stirring occasionally. step5. Meanwhile melt the jaggery with one cup of water to get a thick syrup. step6. Pour the melted jaggery syrup to the cooked jackfruit and stir continuously till it becomes thick and sticky. 46
Ingredients: 1. Ripe Jack fruit flesh : 2 kg /6 cups (finely chopped) 2. Jaggery : 1 kg /3 cups or according to the sweet requirement 3. Water : 2 cups 4. Ghee : 1/2-1 cup 5. Dried Ginger Powder /Chukku : 1 tbsp 6. Cardamom Powder /Elakka : 1/2 tbsp
. step7. Add ghee little by little and stir continuously over medium-low heat until you get a dark brown colored thick jam (Note : Stir continuously to prevent it from sticking to the vessel, If you think this is sticking to the bottom of the pan then add more ghee.) step8. Add the dried ginger powder and cardamom powder. step9. Remove from fire and let it cool to the room temperature. step10. Store in an air tight container and Enjoy!!
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jackfruit seed shake
jackfruit shake Preparation: step 1-Once the jackfruit seeds have cooled down to normal temperature, add them into the blender along with sugar and one quarter of the milk. step 2- Blend till smooth and then add the ice cubes and 1/4 cup water. step3- Blend again with the ice cubes. For a thinner consistency you can add some water. step4- Serve jackfruit shake immediately.
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Ingredients: 1-Jackfruit seeds: 1 cup (peeled and cooked) 2-Milk: 1 packet (boiled and cooled) 3-Boost: 2 tablespoons (any energy drink will work) 4-Sugar: 3 table spoWWon
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jackfruit fritter
jackfruit fritter Preparation: 1. Remove seeds and cut into two pieces. 2. Take a bowl and mix maidha,egg,sugar,cardamom powder,salt and enough water to make a smooth semi thick batter. 3. Dip the jackfruit piecesin the batter. 4. Heat oil and deep fry them until a nice brown colour. 5. Delicious jackfruit fritters are ready now...serve it with a cup of hot tea.
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Ingredients: INGREDIENTS 1. Ripe jackfruit as needed,seeds removed 2. Maida - 1 cup 3. Egg - 1 4. Sugar - 3 tbsp 5. Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp 6. Salt(pinch) 7. Water as required 8. Oil for deep frying
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jackfruit vadai
jackfruit vadai Preparation: 1. Wash and soak dal in water for one hour. 2. Cut the palakottai into 2. Peel the outer thin white skin. Pressure cook palakottai in enough water with 2 pinch salt till soft. I cooked for 3 whistles. Drain water completely and transfer to mixer jar or food processor. 3. To this, add ginger piece and grind it to a smooth paste without adding any water and transfer to a mixing bowl. 4. Drain and grind the channa dal to a smooth paste without adding any water and transfer to the mixing bowl. You can first grind the palakottai and then grind the chana dal in the same jar. 5. Chop the onions, green chili, curry leaves finely and add it to the ground pastes. 6. Add fennel seeds, salt, mix well and make small lemon sized balls and keep it ready.
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Ingredients: Ingredients: 1. 1 cup 2. nos 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Chana dal or Kadalai paruppu Palakottai or jack fruit seeds - 20 Onion – 1 Green chili – 2 Whole dry red chilies – 3 Fennel or Aniseeds – 1 tsp Ginger – 1/2 inch piece Curry leaf – 1 sprig Salt – to taste Oil – to deep fry
7. Heat oil in a deep frying pan and when it is hot enough, take each ball, flatten slightly between both your palms and gently drop into the hot oil. Cook 3-4 vadais at a time and do not fill the whole pan with the fritters. Cook till golden brown and drain on a kitchen paper. 9. Palakottai Vadai is ready. 10.
Serve hot with tea or coffee.
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jackfruit seeds sweet
jackfruit unda Preparation:
Ingredients:
1. Peel the jackfruit seeds and take off parts of the brown skin.
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2. Put into a pressure cooker with water upto its level and cook for 8 to 10 whistles on medium flame. Switch off and allow it to cool completely. 3. Drain the jackfruit seeds into a bowl. Mash well till smooth. 4. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well. In case the mixture is sticky, add a little roasted rice flour to adjust. 5.
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Roll them to balls and enjoy!
20 jackfruit seeds 1 cup grated coconut ½ cup sugar A good pinch cardamom
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jackfruit pappad
jackfruit pappad Preparation:
Ingredients:
step 1 -Cut and clean the raw jack fruit. Remove the seeds and all extra unwanted portions. Please note that the jack fruit should not be tender and should not be ripened also. It should be about to get ripened.
1- 1 medium sized raw jack fruit 2- 4 - 5 green chili or 2 tsp red chili powder 3- 4 tsp cooking oil 4- Salt as per your taste
step 2 -Steam cook the raw jack fruit until soft. It will take around 30 minutes step 3 -Now crush green chili and salt in the grinding stone. You can do it using a mortar-pestle also. You can use any spices of your choice. step 4 -Next add in steam cooked raw jack fruit and mash it well using a wooden pestle. Mash it really well. Wet your fingers and make lemon sized balls.
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step 5 - press it smoothly by using roty maker by apply oil in boyh sides if roty maker step 5- Allow to dry on the sun set heat.next day flip on the oanother side.let it dry foe 3-4 days,and enjoy!!
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jackfruit icecream
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jackfruit ice creame Preparation: step1- Take jack fruit in a blender step 2- Add sugar step 4- 3Puree till smooth
Ingredients: 1. Cream - 2 cups 2. Jack Fruit - ½ cup + 4 tblsp chopped 3. Sugar -1/4 cup 4. Sweetened Condensed Milk - ½ cup
step 5-Take cream in a bowl. step 6-Whisk till thick. step 7- Add in condensed milk. step 8- Whisk well. step 9- Add jack fruit pulp step 10- Mix well step 11- Add jack fruit pieces
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step 12 -Mix well
step 14-Freeze overnight.
step 13-Wrap it and freeze
step 15- Scoop and serve
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jackfruit puttu
jackfruit puttu Preparation:
Ingredients:
step 1 -Cut and clean the raw jack fruit. Remove the seeds and all extra unwanted portions. Please note that the jack fruit should not be tender and should not be ripened also. It should be about to get ripened.
1- 1 medium sized raw jack fruit 2- 4 - 5 green chili or 2 tsp red chili powder 3- 4 tsp cooking oil 4- Salt as per your taste
step 2 -Steam cook the raw jack fruit until soft. It will take around 30 minutes step 3 -Now crush green chili and salt in the grinding stone. You can do it using a mortar-pestle also. You can use any spices of your choice. step 4 -Next add in steam cooked raw jack fruit and mash it well using a wooden pestle. Mash it really well. Wet your fingers and make lemon sized balls.
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step 5 - press it smoothly by using roty maker by apply oil in boyh sides if roty maker step 6- Allow to dry on the sun set heat.next day flip on the oanother side.let it dry foe 3-4 days,and enjoy!!
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jackfruit Juice
jackfruit juice Preparation:
Ingredients:
1. Cut your jack fruit into open pieces.
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2. Pluck the soft yellow banana like shape flesh. 3. Place in a juicer, I used a manual juicer. Squeeze the fruit. Then dilute with water and lemon since it’s too sweet.
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1/2 jack fruit 1/2 lemon 2 cups water
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jackfruit Halwa
jackfruit Halwa Preparation:
Ingredients:
1. Pressure cook the jackfruits with 1/2 cup water for 2-3 whistles.
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2. Melt jaggery by adding 1/2 cup water.once boiled filter this. 3. Transfer the cooked jackfruits along with water to an Urali or big nonstick pan.cook till all the water dries up (often stirring)and the mixture looks soggy. 4. Now add the melted jaggery to this & cook on medium heat often stirring sothat it doesn’t burn. 5. Once all water dries up add 1 tablespoons ghee/dalda/oil and cook.once the ghee is absorbed and the mixture doesn’t turn smoothly while stirring,add another tbsps of ghee.
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3 kg Jackfruit (ripe)1/2 kg Jaggery 2 tsps Cardamom powder 4 - 5 tbsps Ghee -
6. Continue adding ghee & stirring till you get to the stage when a small portion is thrown to the wall  doesn’t sticks to the wall but falls down. 7. When you think it’s almost done add the cardamom powder to this. Once done remove the mixture to a greased steel plate. smoothen the top with the back of a spoon. 8. Once cooled cut the halwa into squares.
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jackfruit curry
jackfruit curry Preparation: 1. When we cut Jack fruit , a thick “milk” oozes from it. This is sticky in nature and stains. So without forgetting ,before cutting rub generous amount of coconut oil to your hand and grease the cutting knife too. 1. Cut the raw jack fruit into half and later into medium size long pieces. Remove outer thorny green skin and the center stalk part. 2. Cut the clean jackfruit into small pieces and put them into water immediately,else they will dis color. Leave it in water for 5 mins. You can observe that the water would be little brownish now. Discard that water. 3. Heat oil in a kadai/pan. Add in mustard and fenugreek seeds and let them splutter . Add curry leaves , green chillies and saute for a min . Add some sliced onion ‘s , ginger - garlic paste and saute till translucent .
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Ingredients: 1. 250 gms raw jackfruit / halasina kayi 2. 1 medium size onion sliced 3. 1 medium size tomato chopped 4. 4-6 flakes Garlic crushed 5. small piece Ginger finelly chopped 6. 2 nos Green Chilli 7. few Curry Leaves 8. 2-4 tsp Coconut Oil 9. 1 tsp Mustard 10. 1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds methi 11. 1/2 tsp Turmeric Haldi 12. 1 tsp Coriander powder / Dhania powder 13. 1 tsp Chilli Powder 14. 1/4 tsp Pepper powder 15. 1 tsp tamarind / kokum 16. 1 cup coconut milk 17. small piece Jaggery 18. Salt to taste
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jackfruit curry Preparation:
4. Add tomatoes and saute till mushy . 5. Now lower the flame and add in chilli powder , pepper powder, coriander powder , haldi and salt . Saute this on low heat for around 2-3 mins. 6. Add raw jack fruit pieces and saute for 1-2 mins 8. Finally drizzle in a tsp of coconut oil on top 9. Raw jack fruit curry is ready . Enjoy with rice
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Ingredients: 1. 250 gms raw jackfruit / halasina kayi 2. 1 medium size onion sliced 3. 1 medium size tomato chopped 4. 4-6 flakes Garlic crushed 5. small piece Ginger finelly chopped 6. 2 nos Green Chilli 7. few Curry Leaves 8. 2-4 tsp Coconut Oil 9. 1 tsp Mustard 10. 1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds methi 11. 1/2 tsp Turmeric Haldi 12. 1 tsp Coriander powder / Dhania powder 13. 1 tsp Chilli Powder 14. 1/4 tsp Pepper powder 15. 1 tsp tamarind / kokum 16. 1 cup coconut milk 17. small piece Jaggery 18. Salt to taste
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jackfruit pickle
jackfruit pickle Preparation: Step 1 Apply oil to a knife and peel the jackfruit. Further cut it into oneinch cubes. Step 2 Pressure cook the pieces till two whistles are given taking care that they remain firm and do not get mashed. Break green chillies with hand. Add sea salt and crush. Step 3 Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, coriander leaves, crushed green chillies with sea salt and cook for two minutes. Add cooked jackfruit cubes, turmeric powder and cook for five minutes. Add lemon juice and vinegar and stir. Remove from he Step 4 Put into sterilized glass jar and store.
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Ingredients: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1 cup 9. 10. 11.
Jackfruit 1 kilogram Green Chillies Green chillies 15 Sea salt 1/2 cup Oil 1 cup Cumin seeds 2 tablespoons Mustard seeds 2 tablespoons Fresh coriander leaves chopped Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon Lemon juice 3 tablespoons Vinegar 3 tablespoons
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This book is about simple and delicious food items that can be made from jackfruit. Jackfruit is becoming one of the most popular items in the menu of peoples who are looking to lead a healthier lifestyle. The sole purpose of the book is to regain the traditional food habits and culture which are forgotten by us. Jackfruit has a wide variety of dishes which are unknown to many of us. So, I hope this book can help a few of us to enjoy and have a taste of these versatile, sustainable, and delicious vegan ingredients for every occasion.