Chakkakuru Manga Curry

I have a major major taste bud for chakkakuru (jackfruit seeds).  This is one of my father’s DNA transfered to me.  Even today my grandmother at the age of 85, if she comes to know that her son is coming to visit her. She will sit and scrape all the chakkakuru seeds and make some delicacy out of it.

All my relatives and mallu friends know this liking of mine.  So anyone coming from Kerala to visit us in Gurgaon would get me minimum 2 kg seeds.  I treasure it as gold in my refrigerator.

This is one of the recipes I make with Jackfruit seeds.  You can have this as a chare kootan with rice i.e. a nice accomplishment with rice.

Ingredient  

Green Mango – 1no. (cut into medium size pieces)

Jackfruit Seeds ( Chakkakuru) – 2 cups
Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp
Salt – as per taste

For the paste

Green chilli – 2 nos
Grated coconut – ¾ cup
Turmeric powder – ½  tsp
Jeera – ½ tsp
Garlic – 3 nos

For Tempering

Mustard seeds – 1tsp
Whole red chilly – 2 nos
Shallots (sambar onion ) – 4 nos (chopped into long strips)
Curry leaves - a spring
Oil – 1tsp

Method

1.      Remove the outer cover and the brown covering  of the jackfruit seed. Cut into 4 lengthwise strips and clean it nicely

2.      Cook this seeds in the cooker with  ½ tsp. turmeric and little salt for a whistle and 10 more min.
3.      To this add the mango  and cook for another 2 whistle
4.      Grind coarsely all the ingredients for the paste
5.      Mash this mango and jackfruit mixture.
6.      To this add the paste and mix well.
7.      Let this come to low boil.
8.      Switch of the heat and keep aside
9.      Heat oil in another pan.
10.  Allow mustard seed to splutter.
11.  Add red chilly, shallot and curry leaves and fry until they are brown.
12.  Pour this seasoning over the curry.