How To Prepare Cutlet From Jack-Fruit Seeds ?

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                                                                                    Jackfruit is one of the biggest fruit in the world and  in my state it is counted as favorite one.
We call it as " Panasa " It is usually found during summer time and rainy season.

I don't know about other place, but in my Odisha state it is not only eaten raw but also we prepare curry usually when it is in baby stage. Yes jackfruit passes through 3 phases which we call it as " Panasa Bayasa "

These 3 phases are :

1. Early Stage - when it is about to grow
2. Baby Stage ( 2nd phase) - It is grown but without seed
3. Final Stage / Mature Stage - During this time, it is seen fully grown with seeds. 

Hence in my state Odisha, we use 2 and 3 phase of jackfruit to prepare curry.

Jack Fruit with Seeds
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Today I am going to explain you how to prepare Jack-fruit cutlet with its seeds :

Jack Fruit Cutlets
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Jack Fruit Cutlets
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Take out all the seeds from Jackfuit which is fully grown. 
Now before carrying out the final process, we need to boil jackfruit seeds properly which is very important part of this dish.

Boiled Jack Fruit Seeds
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Steps to boil jackfruit seeds :

1. Take a boiling pot.
2. Put all the jackfuit seeds in it.
3. Add enough water so that all the seeds are well inside the water.
4. You can add pinch of salt, so that it increased the boiling process and make the seeds more soft.
5. Put the pot on burner and boil it for almost 30-40 minutes in slow heating. 
6. In the final time of boiling keep checking the softness of the jack-fruit.
7. Drain the water and let the seeds dry for sometimes.
8. Now peel out the outer skin of the jack-fruit seeds. Be-careful as the outer skin is very slippery and it may get inside your nail while peeling out.
9. Once it is over now its time to prepare other part of the curry.

Preparing Paste :

For this we need a small or medium pan where we can make a paste for our boiled seeds.

Now follow the below steps to prepare the paste :

1. Add 2 spoon full of turmeric powder
2. Add 2-3 spoon full of red-chilli powder
3. Add ginger+garlic paste 
4. Add either chicken powder ( for non-veg people) or sabji/curry powder ( for veg people) : 1-1+1/2 spoon full 
5. Add boiled jackfruit seeds in it.
6. Now start mixing all these till everything get well mixed add little water to make the paste more thick.. make sure your paste is thick only otherwise while deep frying your result will not be good.
7. Leave the mixture for 1/2 hour with covered.
8. This cover creates a vapour inside the pan and a kind of taste is generated.
9. Separate each seed paste with enough paste from each other on a plate.

Frying Jackfruit Seeds Paste :

Now since everything is ready, its time to prepare the cutlets :

1. Put a fry pan on the burner
2. Add enough amount of refined oil
3. Let the oil heat for sometime 
4. Start putting the above prepared seed mixed with paste carefully in the heat oil.
5. Fry till the paste turned into golden colour.
6. Take out the fried one on a clean plate.

Here it is your jackfruit cutlet is ready to serve. You can serve to your family members, friends with either tomato sauce, chutney, coffee/tea. 

It is healthy, tasty and delicious cutlet and its good for health hence old people can eat it without any doubt :)

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