Jackfruit Paayasam: Ingredients: Ripened Jackfruit Pieces 2 Cups; Coconut 1; Grinded Jaggery 1 and a 1/2 cups; Ghee-25 gms; Cashewnuts-10; Cardamom-5.
Method: Take a Vessel and pour 2 cups of water and heat it.
When it boils drop the Jackfruit peels in it and allow it to boil.
Take the coconut, Chop and grind it with little amount of water.
Take the coconut milk separately from the coconut extract obtained.
Grind the residue again with some more water and take the coconut milk and keep it aside(for the second time).
When the jackfruit is fully boiled, add the grinded jaggery and boil it for some more minutes.
Then add the coconut milk obtained at the second time and boil it for 20 minutes, when it smells nicely add the coconut milk taken first and switch off the flame.
Fry the Cashew nuts, Cardamom in ghee and finely cut a few pieces of coconuts and pour into the delicious paayasam.
It will be very tasty and is an inviting sweet dish.
It is very famous in Kerala.
Jackfruit Barfi: Ingredients: Chopped Jackfruit pieces-1 bowl; Milk Powder-1 cup; Sugar-1 cup; Ghee-1/2 cup; Cardamom powder-little amount Method: Take the milk powder kept in the cup, add wanted amount of hot water in it and mix it well without any hard balls of milk powder.
Grind the jackfruit pieces in the mixer until it is fully grinded.
Put the sugar in a copper bottom pan, add some hot hot water and boil it till it becomes like a thin string(when a little portion of it is taken out).
Add the milk, finely crushed/grinded jackfruit pieces and mix it well till it becomes thick.
Then add the ghee kept little by little and the cardamom powder.
When it does not stick to the sides and bottom of the pan take it out, add some more ghee and spread it in plate.
allow it to get a little hard and then cut it with a knife into smaller pieces.
Jackfruit barfi is now ready to serve as well as eat!