Jack Fruit Payasam
Jack Fruit Payasam is an authentic traditional dish prepared with chakka, one of the native fruits popular in Kerala. Jack Fruit Payasam requires very few ingredients and is a lip smacking variety dish, a favorite with kids as well as elders. Jack Fruit Payasam is unique and special with jackfruit jam blended with jaggery and coconut milk. Jack fruit or Chakka is nutritious, providing vital nutrients essential for body. Jack Fruit Payasam is one of the easiest of dishes that can be easily prepared at home. You can explore a well detailed Jack Fruit Payasam here.
Ingredients
- 300 g Jackfruit jam Chakka
- 250 g Jaggery Sharkkara
- 2 nos Coconut
- 50 g Ghee
- 15 nos Cardamom Elakka
- 50 g Raisins Onakka munthiri
- 50 g Cashewnuts
- Coconut chips A little, Thenga kothu
Instructions
- For preparing Jack Fruit Payasam, first grate the coconuts and prepare thick coconut milk(2 glasses), thin coconut milk(3 1/2 glasses) and very thin coconut milk(5 glasses).
- :- To prepare this dish, it's necessary to use only ripe jackfruit. Hence, make sure that you get some good varikka chakka.
- Cut open the jackfruit and take the ripe pieces from it.
- Beat it in a mixer grinder.
- Mix this with jaggery and cook it in a vessel.
- Add ghee in between.
- :- This is how you prepare the jackfruit jam.
- When the jackfruit and jaggery is fully cooked, add the very thin coconut milk and allow it to boil.
- Wait for the water content to get reduced.
- Add the thin coconut milk and allow this to boil and get reduced.
- Mix the powdered cardamom with the thick coconut milk and pour this into the Urali.
- :- Do not allow it to boil.
- Lower the flame and heat it through.
- Fry the chopped coconuts in the remaining ghee.
- Add the raisins and cashewnuts and fry them, till they turn brown.
- Add the fried ingredients into the Jack Fruit Payasam.
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