This Chakka kuru Manga curry/Jackfruit seeds and raw mango curry is one of typical curries in my hometown Kerala, India. This curry is mostly made during the summer months when jackfruit and mango are available in plenty. After buying a whole jackfruit from the Hong Kong market, I had lots of jackfruit seeds. I was planning to make this curry for long time. However since raw mango is really expensive, hubby always give me a questioning look do you want this? I told him I really need it this time and bought it. Then coming home, I made Chakka kuru Manga curry. Even though its name is complicated it is really simple curry.
I want to share something other than this curry with you. I am a person who loves to drive like a bus driver who follows the route in same direction every day. Today my habit of following the same route got disrupted. Yes there was major accident in the road, police close entire 3 line traffic in one direction and rerouting to another way. With no choice as I have to drop my kids to school I followed rest of cars in front of my vehicle. After driving for a few miles, I lost the sense of direction as I was in an area that I was not familiar with. Finally I turned car into an auto spare parts store and asked them how to get major highway. Guys in the store told me to follow turn left and go. I thought since I came this far, give it a shot to check where is my daughter’s school. When I put the address on Google map it indicated that it will only take 8 minutes to reach the school. Then for last shot I followed the route which map shows and reached her school after 1 hour of driving around. Normally it would take about 25 minutes of driving. I was contacting hubby in the meantime through the phone. Finally he gave a complement saying with this episode you know how to get back if you are lost. For me it was not a fun experience still I learned something. Yes every day is something interesting to learn is it?
Coming back to the curry, it is really easy; first you need to half cook jack fruit as it needs more time to cook. You can do it either pressure cooking them for 1 whistle or for about 30 minutes. Then once again cook both jack fruit ( chakka kuru) and manga( raw mango) together for some more time. Finally add spicy coconut paste and finish the cooking with seasoning. This is really delicious curry goes well with a bowl of rice and some side dish. Give it try it is easy one.
Delicious chakka kuru manga curry/ Jack fruit seeds and raw mango curry cooked in spicy coconut gravy.
Ingredients
- 15 Jackfruit seeds
- 1 green mango
- 1 green chili
- ½ cup coconut
- 3 red chilies
- ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 3 small onion/ pearl onion
- ½ teaspoon salt or to taste
- 3 cups water
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 2 sprigs of curry leaves
Instructions
- Cook jack fruit seeds/ chakka kuru with little turmeric, ¼ teaspoon salt and 1 cup of water
- for about 25 minutes or until it is half cooked.
- Then once it cools enough to touch remove the brown skin from the jack fruit seeds and cut into pieces and set aside.
- In a small sauce pan add cooked jack fruit seeds and chopped raw mango pieces, one chopped green chili , rest of turmeric and 1 cup water and cook until mango pieces and jack fruit pieces cooked well.
- In the mean time grind coconut, garlic, cumin seeds and 2 red chilies and ½ cup water into fine paste.
- Once the jack fruit and mango pieces are cooked
- add the ground coconut spice paste and add rest of the water cook for another 5 minutes.
- In a small pan add coconut oil, mustard seeds, halved red chili, curry leaves and chopped pearl onion and fry until mustard seeds pop, add this seasoning into the curry.
- Enjoy the curry with a bowl of rice.
Notes
Copyright ©2015 Zesty South Indian Kitchen by Swathi(Ambujom Saraswathy) All Rights Reserved
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Choc Chip Uru says
What a delicious colour, I want to try this curry as soon as possible 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Sundari says
Thats an awesome combo!! Lovely!!
Sona says
Delicious chakka kauru curry...
julie says
love this combo,yumm with rice
Suja Manoj says
Yummy and tempting cuyyr..adipoli
Jean | DelightfulRepast.com says
Swathi, I love mango but have never had jackfruit. I'll have to try to get my hands on some! This sounds intriguing.
Sathya @Mykitchenodyssey says
Never combines raw mango with jackfruit seeds..Mom used to make seeds stir fry ..Really yummy curry
tigerfish says
This is an interesting curry. I have never tried anything like that before. Thanks for sharing.
beena says
My favorite . Love it
The Yummy Lounge says
great recipe...looks delicious...
Nalini Somayaji says
classic and traditional yummy chakka kuru manga curry ....with a bowl of rice and a little ghee on the top up with this curry...yum yum yum ..
Rafeeda says
That is a delicious combination...
veena says
interesting combo.. I love anything with jack fruit seeds