Raw Jackfruit Curry

Jackfruit Curry is a very tasty and delicious gravy dish made with raw jackfruit cooked in ground coconut paste goes well with rice.Raw Jackfruit Curry recipe is explained with step by step method and photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Raw Jackfruit Curry

Ingredients:-

Raw jackfruit.        - a small portion
Onion.                    - 1 finely chopped
Green chilly.          - 2 half slit
Garlic.                    - 3 chopped
Red chilly powder. - 1tsp
Turmeric powder.   -1/4 tsp
Salt.                        - to taste

For grinding Coconut paste:-

Grated Coconut. -1cup
Green chillies.     - 2
Fennel seeds.       -1/2 tsp

For Seasoning:-

Coconut oil.       -1tsp
Mustard seeds.   -1tsp
Dry red chillies. - 2 broken into halves.
Garlic.                - 3 crushed
Curry leaves.      - 1 spring

Instructions:-

1). Grease little coconut oil on your hands, knife and cutting board before cutting the jackfruit.Cut a small portion of a small raw jackfruit and remove the outer thorny and hard skin. Chop the jackfruit into medium small pieces and immediately put them in water to prevent discoloration.

2). Pressure cook the chopped jackfruit pieces along with finely chopped onion, chopped garlic, half slit green chillies, red chilly powder, turmeric powder and little salt adding 2 cup of water for 5 whistles or until soft.

3). Soak tamarind in little water and extract tamarind juice and keep aside.

4). Grind grated coconut along with 2 green chillies and 1/2 tsp fennel seeds to a smooth paste adding little water. Keep aside the ground coconut paste.

Method:-

1). Transfer the pressure cooked jackfruit pieces and onion green chilly mixture along with cooked water to a wide bottom cooking vessel. Boil and cook for 2 minutes on low flame.

2). Add required salt into the vessel and mix well.

3). Add extracted tamarind juice into the cooking vessel and boil on low flame.

4). Add ground coconut paste into the curry in the vessel and mix with the cooked jackfruit pieces.Boil for 2 minutes on low flame and switch off the flame.

5). Heat coconut oil in a small pan for seasoning and splutter mustard seeds and saute well. Add crushed garlic and broken dry red chilly halves into the small pan and roast well. Add curry leaves into the pan and fry in oil for a second and switch off the flame.

6). Pour the above seasoning into the jackfruit curry in the cooking vessel.

7). Transfer the raw jackfruit curry to a serving bowl.

A very tasty and delicious Raw Jackfruit Curry is ready to serve hot with steaming rice.