Preparation
20 minutes
Difficulty
Easy
Jackfruit is a delicious ingredient and can be used to make many snacks or incredibly appealing desserts. TasteVN suggests you the recipe for making crispy fried jackfruit right at home. Let’s get cooking right away!
Ingredients for Fried Jackfruit Serves 4
Peeled jackfruit 600 gr Crispy flour 100 gr All-purpose flour 100 gr Chicken egg 1 piece Coconut milk 3 tablespoons Sugar 1 tablespoon Turmeric powder 1 teaspoon (optional) Salt 1/2 teaspoon
How to choose ingredients
How to choose delicious jackfruit
- For dried jackfruit dishes, you should choose ripe, golden jackfruit, not overly soft jackfruit as it will affect the quality of the dish.
- To choose delicious jackfruit, you can taste a little. Ripe, delicious jackfruit will have a sweet and rich flavor, not fibrous or strange-tasting.
- Good ripe jackfruit usually feels heavy in hand. Ripe jackfruit has a fragrant and distinctive smell. Jackfruit that has been injected with chemicals often does not smell as good as naturally ripened jackfruit.
- Good ripe jackfruit usually has a brownish-yellow skin, the spikes are no longer sharp and the distance between the spikes is usually far apart. If the jackfruit has green skin, sharp spikes, and the spikes are close together, it is still unripe and artificially ripened.
- Good naturally ripened jackfruit will have little sap and no white sap when cut open. When jackfruit is injected with chemicals, the sap will be white and flow a lot when cutting due to the effects of the chemicals.
How to make Fried Jackfruit
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Preparing jackfruit
After buying jackfruit, remove all the skin and seeds inside, you can keep the large and ripe jackfruit fibers.
Cut the jackfruit segments in half to make it easier to fry and prevent the jackfruit from becoming mushy, do not cut them too small.
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Mix the batter
Put all the flour and cornstarch into a large bowl. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1/2 tablespoon of salt and mix well.
Next, add 3 tablespoons of coconut milk and crack in 1 egg. Use a whisk to mix the mixture thoroughly.
Add about 100ml of filtered water and continue to beat until the mixture thickens, then let the batter rest for about 10 – 15 minutes.
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Fry the jackfruit
Place a pot on the stove and add enough oil so that it is about 1/3 – 2/3 full, then heat it until boiling; the oil should be enough to submerge the jackfruit pieces.
Dip each piece of chopped jackfruit into the batter, depending on your taste, you can adjust the amount of batter for a crispy or less crispy texture.
Carefully add each piece of jackfruit coated in batter into the pan and fry until they are golden brown, and the dish is complete.
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Final Product
Fried jackfruit according to this recipe will give us an incredibly attractive dish. The outside is coated with crispy golden batter, while the inside is sweet and aromatic. Let’s get into the kitchen right away to make this unique dish for the whole family.
How to separate jackfruit segments without getting sap on your hands and knife
Avoid jackfruit sap sticking to your hands
- First, you can apply a little cooking oil to the palms of your hands before cutting or separating the jackfruit segments. This method will help reduce the stickiness of the jackfruit sap on your hands.
- You can also dip your hands in rice before and after cutting the jackfruit or separating the segments. Rice bran will help wash away the sticky jackfruit sap on your hands.
- Additionally, you can use a lemon to rub on the cut jackfruit and your hands or knife; this method is also very effective.
- Other folk methods include using kerosene to wash off jackfruit sap or chewing some raw peanuts and applying them to the sticky sap to remove it.
Avoid sap sticking to the knife
- You can cool the knife in the freezer refrigerator, this will prevent jackfruit sap from sticking to the knife and make the sap residue hard and easy to peel off.
- Additionally, you can use a plastic bag to remove jackfruit sap or use a cloth soaked in oil (cooking oil, kerosene,…) to wipe the sticky sap off the knife.
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It’s really simple to make this delicious and unique fried jackfruit, isn’t it? Let’s get cooking right away, TasteVN wishes you success!
*Refer to images and recipes from: YouTube channel Delicious Food
