Raw Jackfruit(unripe,young) is edible? I never knew that until my MIL cooked once after marriage. I loved it the very first time when she made curry with it. I don’t know any recipes with raw jackfruit other than this, but love it a lot. The texture is so different and I love it. The cleaning process is bit messy and tedious. But everything is worth to have this curry. My MIL made this curry when I was there in Chennai last week and I clicked to post this recipe here. We call the raw jackfruit in tamil as
‘pala mouse’ . We got it fresh from the tree from Karaikudi
Mami’s house.They also picked a sweetest ripe jackfruit and it was as sweet as honey! We made curry with half of this raw jackfruit and kootu with the other half. The unripe jackfruit should be young and tender to make a delicious dish. We do get this cleaned and cut in Singapore. But sure, nothing can beat the backyard garden picked fresh one.
The recipe is similar to my
raw banana curry, only a little bit different.
Ingredients
| Raw jackfruit(young,small,tender) | 1/2 |
| Onion | 1 |
| Turmeric | 1/4 tsp |
| Salt | As needed |
To grind
| Coconut | 3 tblsp |
| Coriander seeds | 1 & 1/2 tbslp |
| Pepper | 1 tsp |
| Jeera | 1 tsp |
| Red chilli | 2 |
| Garlic | 2 |
To temper
| Oil | 2 tblsp |
| Mustard | 1 tsp |
| Urad dal | 1 tsp |
| Curry leaves | 1 sprig |
Method
- Before touching the raw jackfruit, spread 2-3 news papers, grease both your hands with generous sesame oil or use gloves. Grease the knife too with oil. This is because when we cut the veggie, it will leave a ‘milk like’ thing which is so sticky. And it leaves stains as well. So prevent the floor, your dress and everything from it. Half the veggie like this.
 - Then cut one of the half into big pieces and remove the thorny green skin part as shown. Remove the centre stalk too(thick part) and chop into small pieces.
 - Keep ready, a bowl of water with buttermilk to immerse the chopped veggie. You can also use the drained water we washed the rice (kahzhani). Boil water with salt an turmeric and cook the finely chopped veggie until soft. Will take roughly 15 minutes.
 - Mean while,grind the ingredients under to grind table with little bit of water,to a fine paste.
 - Drain the water and keep aside. Heat kadai with oil an temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table. Add onions and fry till transparent. Mix the ground paste with the cooked raw jackfruit along with salt.
 - Add it to the kadai and fry well. Keep in medium flame to ensure the curry gets roasted evenly and mix now and then. This may take some time. Say 15 minutes.
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Transfer to the serving bowl and serve as accompaniment for sambar/
rasam/
more kuzhambu. Do try this different veggie, you would love it!
Notes
- Grease your hands frequently while you are cleaning/cutting the veggie.
- Choose small, young and tender raw jackfruit. It tastes great. Bigger ones take long time to cook.
- You can add more oil at the end when you are roasting to make it turn golden.
- Add a tsp of coconut oil at the end to get a great flavor!
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