Jackfruit Fritters

I usually try sweets using fruits. And now jackfruit season has just started, anyways jackfruit is my favourite, so tried this recipe and it tastes yummy with the jackfruit flavour. I love to share this recipe, since I like it very much.

Ingredients:

• Jackfruit - 4 pieces
• Palm sugar/karumbu sakkarai - 4 tbsp
• Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
• White Rava/Sooji - 1/4 cup
• Sesame seeds - 2 tsp
• Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cashew nuts 
• Peanuts
• Oil to deep fry

Method:

Cut the Jackfruit into small pieces and blend along with sugar. Grind to a smooth paste.

Take a bowl add grounded jackfruit-sugar paste, rava, sesame, grated coconut, cardamom cashews, peanuts and mix well using your hands. It looks like a dough. 

Divide the dough into small balls or fritters. Take Oil in a frying pan and put the fritters one by one. Fry in a medium flame else the fritters will get burnt. 

Now the fritters are ready and looks in golden brown colour. 

You can also prepare Banana Fritters by substituting Bananas in place of Jackfruit. But the Bananas should not be over riped. The below pic is banana Fritters. I used normal white sugar for this recipe.

Notes:

• You can use ordinary white sugar instead of karumbu sakkarai.
• You can adjust the sugar quantity according to your taste.
• You can neglect peanuts.
• You can fry the cashews in Ghee and add the fried cashews along with some more ghee to the dough to obtain a great taste.

Jackfruit Kheer

Jack fruit is my favourite fruit from childhood days. So I used to try Jackfruit recipes once the jackfruit season starts. Desserts suits well for Jackfruit and I have tried this recipe and it was soooo good and my hubby too liked it very much.

Health Benefits:

It is one of the rare fruits that is rich in B-complex group of vitamins. Jackfruit is a good source of antioxidant vitamin-C. Consumption of foods rich in vitamin C helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents.

Ingredients :

• Jackfruit - 4 pieces (chopped)
• Milk - 2 cups
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Cashews - 4 nos
• raisins - 4 nos
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Saffron strands - 1 pinch

Method:

The milk used for this recipe should be thick. 

Take jackfruit pieces, remove the seeds and chop into small pieces.

In a heavy bottomed pan add ghee and fry cashews, raisins and keep it in a separate plate. In the same pan add the chopped jackfruits and saute until it becomes soft and turns light brown in colour. At this time itself it is half cooked.

Add sugar to the jack fruits and keep stirring the mixture. It leaves water, just for few minutes close the lid, let it cook for some more time in the steam(It should be noted whether it is burning while cooking). Add hot milk with this mixture. let it get boiled for just a minute and switch off the stove.(care should be taken at this stage. jack fruit should not be cooked in milk, as it may sometimes spoil the kheer) Add cashews, raisins and cardamom powder and stir well. finally garnish with saffron strands. 

Now a delicious Jackfruit dessert is ready to serve hot or you can refrigerate and serve cool. Cool Jack fruit Kheer will be more tastier...Try it out...

Notes:

• If the milk is not thick, keep the milk in simmer and reduce the quantity, the milk will become thick. Do this work before starting to prepare the recipe.
• If there is no enough water to cook, just sprinkle the water and cook.
• Do not overcook after adding milk, as it may spoil the kheer.
• You can add any other nuts to this kheer.
• Instead of normal white sugar, you can add palm sugar.