Jackfruit Halwa (Chakka Halwa) – Jaggery-Based
Ingredients for Jackfruit Halwa (Chakka Pazham Halwa) Recipe 1:
1. Jack fruit cut into small pieces – 250 gm
2. Coconut grated – 3
3. Rice powder – 50 gm
4. Maida – 200g
5. Jaggery – ½ kg
Water – ¼ cup
6. Ghee – As required
7. Cashew nuts fried – 100 gm
Almonds fried – 25 gm
Cardamom and cloves – 3 each
How to prepare Jackfruit Halwa (Chakka Pazham Halwa) Recipe 1?
1. Cook jackfruit in a cooker, adding sufficient water, and smash well.
2. Melt jaggery, adding ¼ cup water, and filter it if needed.
3. After taking the first coconut milk from three coconuts, make the second milk by adding three cups of water.
4. Mix 50 gm rice powder in a little second milk and pour to a heated urli little by little. Keep stirring.
5. Mix maida in the remaining second milk, and pour into the urli and keep stirring.
6. Heat itn a low flame till the content boils well, and add the jaggery solution.
7. Mix the contents well and keep stirring.
8. Now you can add ghee little by little.
9. When the jackfruit halwa is almost done, pour the first coconut milk and mix well.
10. Now add cashews, almonds, cardamom and cloves, mix the halwa well and turn the flame off.
11. Apply ghee to a plate and spread halwa on it.
12. Once it turns cold, you can cut it into desired shapes.
Vanitha Magazine: May 1-14, 2017
Jackfruit Halwa (Chakka Halwa) – Sugar-Based
Ingredients for Jackfruit Halwa (Chakka Halwa) Recipe 2:
1. Jackfruit (not over-ripen) – ½ kg (after removing seeds)
2. Sugar – 2 cups
Water – ½ cup
3. Ghee – 1 cup
4. Milk – 1 cup
5. Milk – 1 big spoon
Jalebi colour – A pinch
6. Cardamom powder – ½ small spoon
7. Cashews broken – ½ cup
How to prepare Jackfruit Halwa (Chakka Halwa) Recipe 2?
1. Steam cook jackfruit and then make a fine paste.
2. Boil water along with sugar till it dissolves completely.
3. Add jackfruit paste, ¼ cup ghee and 1/4 cup milk and stir it well.
4. Add the remaining ¾ cup of ghee in three intervals and keep stirring.
5. When the contents start thickening, mix the colour with milk and add to add to halwa.
6. Add cardamom powder too.
7. When the contents turn soft, add half the quantity of cashews and mix well.
8. Transfer jackfruit halwa to a greased tray and spread the remaining cashews on its top.
9. Using a spoon, press the halwa and level the contents.
10. Halwa should have the consistency of rava kesari, and should not turn harder.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, April 15-30, 2010
Also read: Jackfruit tales
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