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I want to show you a delicious and curious vegan ingredient for your snacks, lunch and dinners: the jackfruit meat.
Jackfruit is a big, sweet and succulent fruit(oh really?). It's very common in tropical sites, like my country Brazil.
Yeah, it grows over your head, be careful!
It's like this inside, when mature. This is yellow, sweet and scented. Do you want bite it?
"But, WHAATT!? How can we make a salty ingredient with a sweet fruit?"
So, we will use a GREEN jackfruit, a immature fruit. It's not sweet. The taste will be define by the spices. How spices do you like?
The green jackfruit is like this.
The jackfruit is divided in 4 parts: the skin, she seeds, the buds and the fibers. The skin is useless. The buds, when the fruit is mature, are the sweet part than the peaple usually eat. The fibers and the seed usually are not consumed.
But, the green jackfruit meat is made of the fiber,
This is how the green jackfruit meat looks when prepared.
You can use in a loot of dishes:
Season for farce breads and tacos.
A creamy stroganoff with mushrooms.
Baked jackfruit meat with barbecue sauce. It's incredible!
This is a popular snacky in my country: coxinhas. So, this is a vegan version! Delicious like the original.
Has a lot of alternatives to use this wonderful ingredient.
"So, how can I prepair this?"
First, you need a tottaly GREEN fruit. It's half mature, look for another.
1 - Wash the jackfruit .
2 - Cut it in various parts to fit in a pressure cooker. It is not necessary to remove the skin yet.
3 - Put the pieces in the pressure cooker, take to the stove. After the cooker pick up pressure, cook it for 50 minutes.
4 - Take away the pieces of the cooker. Let cool.
5 - Remove the skin, the seeds and the buds. You can use a knife to facilitate the work. The jackfruit is basically the fibers between the skin and the buds. (you can eat the buds ands seeds, save this and put in the refrigerator)
6 - Use the jackfruit meat in your dishes! =)
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