Jackfruit Curry (Vegan)
Jackfruit curry is an amazing curry that is delicious in flavor and meaty in texture. It's an easy curry recipe.
Servings: 4 Servings
Ingredients
- ½ kg Jack fruit Peeled & Diced
- 4 Onion Diced
- 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste 10 - 12 garlic cloves + 1 inch ginger
- 1 Green Chilli or as spicy you need
- ¼ cup Refined oil for pan frying jackfruit & currry sauce
- 1 tsp Salt as per taste
Ground Spices
- 1½ tsp Kashmiri Chilli Powder or paprika ½ - tsp
- ½ - 1 tsp Red Chili powder or cayenne pepper ¼ tsp
- 2 tbsp Coriander Powder
- ½ tsp Turmeric Powder
- ½ tsp Garam Masala
- ½ tsp cumin powder
Whole Spices
- 1 tsp Cumin seed
- 4 - 6 Black Pepper
- 4 Cloves
- 3 - 4 green cardamom
- 1 Bay Leaf
- 1 tbsp Coriander Leaves
Instructions
- In a blender, blend onions, ginger garlic paste, green chillies, cinnamon stick ½ inch, black pepper, cloves, cardamom, and cumin seed into fine paste.
- Heat one frying pan or kadai on high flame.
- Pour 8-10 tbsp oil to it. Shallow fry diced jackfruit or till they are half cooked around 60 - 70% and starts turning golden brown.
- Once done, remove fried jackfruit from pan.
- Remove if excess oil is left or add oil if no oil left in pan after frying.
- Once the oil is hot, add one bay leaf to the pan. Keep the flame on low.
- Then add ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder & ¼ teaspoon chilli powder. This will give rich red color to the gravy.
- Then immediately add onion paste.
- Sauté for 5-6 mins on medium flame till onion paste leaves oil on sides and cooked completely.
- Then add coriander powder, ground cumin, Kashmiri chili, red chili powder, and turmeric powder.
- Stir them all nicely mixing the spices to the onion paste.
- Cook the masala well for 3 - 5 minutes, stirring inbetween.
- Season with salt as per taste.
- Once the masala is cooked and release oil on the sides of the masala, add fried jackfruit to it.
- Toss to coat the jackfruit and sauté for 3 mins on low flame, stirring occasionally in between.
- Then add 1 - 1½ cup of water to it and cover with a lid.
- Simmer for 10 - 15 mins on medium-low heat.
- Check. the doneness of the jackfruit using a fork or knife. If the fork easily moves through it and the jackfruit turns tender enough, that shows it's cooked perfectly.
- Turn off heat when the curry base is also cooked well with nice tender melt in mouth jackfruits.
- Garnish it with freshly chopped coriander leaves. And serve hot.
Notes
If you don't want to shallow fry the jackfruit, steam them for 7 - 8 minutes.