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Preparation
45 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
This Tet holiday, treat your family and guests to this delicious chewy jackfruit candy. TasteVN will share a very simple and tasty recipe for making this candy. Let’s get cooking right away!
Ingredients for Jackfruit Candy For 10 people
Ripe jackfruit 900 gr Lime 3 fruits Sugar A little White sesame 1 tablespoon Peanuts 150 gr Cooking oil A little
How to choose sweet jackfruit
- For dried jackfruit, you should choose ripe, yellowish jackfruit; do not choose overly soft jackfruit as it will affect the quality of the dish.
- To select good jackfruit, you can taste a bit. Good ripe jackfruit will have a sweet and creamy taste, not fibrous or strange.
- Good ripe jackfruit is usually heavy in hand. Tree-ripened jackfruit has a strong and characteristic aroma. Jackfruit that has been injected with chemicals usually does not smell as fragrant as tree-ripened jackfruit.
- Good tree-ripened jackfruit typically 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 close spacing of spikes, it is still young and has been artificially ripened.
- Good tree-ripened jackfruit will have little sap and no white sap when cut. When jackfruit is injected with chemicals, the sap will be white and flow a lot when cutting due to the chemical effects.
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How to make Jackfruit Candy
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Prepare and blend the jackfruit
Buy ripe jackfruit, peel it, remove the seeds, and then cut it into small pieces with a knife. Put the jackfruit into a blender and blend until smooth.
Tip: If you don’t have ripe jackfruit, you can buy fresh jackfruit, peel it, remove the seeds, cut it small, and put it in a plastic container to refrigerate for 2 – 3 days to ripen.
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Marinate the jackfruit
Add 500g of sugar to the blended jackfruit and mix well.
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Cook the jackfruit
First, squeeze the juice from 3 lemons.
Place a pan on the stove, add the jackfruit mixture and bring to a boil, then add the lemon juice and stir well over medium heat for 45 minutes until it turns brownish-yellow.
Then, reduce the heat and continue stirring for another 25 minutes until the mixture thickens.
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Roasting candy
Spread the jackfruit mixture evenly on the baking tray, turn on the top heat for the oven and roast for 15 minutes at 120 degrees Celsius.
After 15 minutes, take the tray out, mix it well, then spread it evenly on the tray again, and put it back in the oven for another 1 hour and 30 minutes at 120 degrees Celsius.
Tip: If you don’t have an oven, you can use a stove to stir-fry over medium heat for 45 minutes, then stir-fry over low heat and stir continuously until the mixture becomes very thick.
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Completion
Add 1 tablespoon of toasted sesame and 100g of toasted and shelled peanuts to the jackfruit candy and mix well.
Line a new tray with a piece of plastic wrap, then spread some cooking oil around the surface, and evenly spread the jackfruit candy on it, then let it cool for 5 hours.
Finally, use a knife to cut the jackfruit candy into pieces as you like to finish.
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Final Product
The delicious and attractive jackfruit candy has a sweet and mild flavor, enjoying it during the festive days with family is just perfect!
How to Store Jackfruit Candy
- You should wrap the candy tightly to limit its exposure to air to preserve it for more than 3 weeks of use.
- You can also place the candy in a jar and seal it tightly for storage.
How to Separate Jackfruit Segments Without Getting Sap on Hands and Knife
Avoid Getting Jackfruit Sap on Your Hands
- To minimize sap sticking to your hands, rub a little cooking oil on your palms before preparing the jackfruit.
- You can also dip your hands in rice before or after handling jackfruit because the rice bran will help wash away the sap on your hands.
- Using a lemon to rub on the sap area will also effectively remove it.
- Additionally, you can use a little kerosene to wash off the sap or chew some raw peanuts and apply them to the sticky sap areas to remove it.
Avoid Getting Jackfruit Sap on the Knife
- You should place the knife in the freezer; this will prevent sap from sticking to the knife and make the sap that has adhered to the knife harden and easy to peel off.
- Additionally, you can use a plastic bag to remove the sap or use a cloth dipped in kerosene (or cooking oil) to wipe off the sap on the knife.
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With the recipe that TasteVN has shared above, hope you will successfully make this delicious jackfruit candy!
*Refer to images and recipes from the YouTube channel Delicious Meals Every Day
