Chakkapazham Kaalan Recipe | Kerala Jackfruit Thick Curd Dish (Sadya Special)

Ingredients for Chakkapazham Kaalan (Jackfruit Kalan):

1. Ripen (not well-ripened) jackfruit made into square pieces – 2 cups
   Salt – For taste
   Turmeric powder – ¼ small spoon
   Green chillies split into two – 5
   Curry leaves – 1 stalk
2. Coconut scraped – ½
   Cumin seeds – ¼ spoon
   Pepper seeds – ¼ spoon (soaked in water and skin removed)
   Thick curd with sour – 1.5 cups
3. Coconut oil – 1 big spoon
   Mustard seeds – 1 small spoon
   Fenugreek seeds – A pinch
   Red chilli broken into two – 1 or 2
   Curry leaves – 1 stalk
4. Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

How to prepare Chakkapazham Kaalan (Jackfruit Kalan)?

1. Mix all ingredients listed under 1 and cook by adding a little water.
2. Grind together all ingredients listed as 2 and add to the cooked jackfruit.
3.  Turn the flame off when the gravy starts boiling.
4. Now heat one big spoon of coconut oil in a pan and temper ingredients no: 3.
5. Add a little turmeric powder to it, and season the curry using this coconut oil.

Vanitha Magazine: May 1-14, 2017

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