Delicious sweet pudding made with fresh jackfruit, with touch of coconut and milk.
Next week is our harvest festival Vishu; it is on April 15 th2015. It is one of the traditional festivals celebrated all over Kerala, South India my home town. I makes elaborate feast and celebrate with full zing usually. This year as it coming on working day, I will be making few dishes and a paysam (sweet pudding) along with traditional ritual of seeing Vishukani in the early morning on that day. Usually both chakka (jackfruit) and Manga (mango) is available in plenty during vishu time. So variety of dishes is made with them. I tried this Chakka Payasam/Jackfruit pudding last weekend as I bought some fresh jackfruit from Hong Kong Market.
Only after Vishu, rice is planted so that it will get ready for another festival in 4-5 months. Around this time the Cassia plant ( Cassia fistula,golden shower tree) is in bloom with its beautiful golden flower just in time for Vishu and it will be another year for it to bloom again. On Vishu we starts the day with Vishu Kani which means seeing fruits, books, gold, money, rice and vegetables in a vessel kept near the Krishna idol in puja room ( worshipping room) very early in the morning with the belief that the coming year will be prosperous. Once Kani is done then Vishukaineetam (money) is given by the elders to younger ones in the family; it symbolizes the importance of sharing.
I have to try few traditional Vishu recipes on my list, of which I have tried Kaniyappam, Vishu kanji, Mampazha Kalan. Now in the list to try is another version of Vishu Kanji , Vishukatta etc. If time permits I will try that too.
I have tried ChakkaPpradhaman / Jackfruit pudding earlier, but it is made with jackfruit preserve/ chakka varati. However this recipe uses fresh jackfruits also it has specialty of adding milk in coconut milk pasyasam. Yes when we make pradhaman, we don’t combine both milk and coconut milk usually. But this one is slightly different. I found this recipe in Vanitha magazine.
If you can grab some fresh jackfruit make sure to try this one delicious. Here comes the recipe.
Delicious sweet pudding made with fresh jackfruit, coconut milk and milk.
Ingredients
- 10 pieces of Jackfruit (about 250g)
- 2 ½ cup water
- ½ cup Jaggery ( Increase to ¾ cup Jaggery if you like more sweetness)
- ¼ cup sabudana/sago
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1 cup milk
- 3 tablespoon coconut pieces
- 14 whole cashews
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon roasted cumin powder
- 2 cardamoms
- 1 tablespoon ghee
Instructions
- Melt jaggery in 1 cup water and strain for impurities and set aside.
- Soak sago pearls for 2 hours and
- cook with ½ cup water until it become translucent and wash it in the running water for few times and set aside.
- Grind the jackfruit into fine puree.
- In a thick bottomed pan add pureed jackfruit, cooked sago pearls and strained jaggery water and cook for about 15 minutes.
- To this add ½ cup of coconut milk + 1 cup of water ( Randam pal) and cook until it reduce in volume.
- Once it is reduced a bit, add ½ cup thick coconut milk and bring it to boil, to this add cardamom powder and cumin powder.
- Then finally add milk and bring to boil.
- In the mean time, heat 1 tablespoon ghee and fry coconut pieces and cashew nuts until it become golden brown.
- Once it is done add entire coconut pieces, cashew nuts along with ghee into the payasam.
- Enjoy as much you want.
Notes
Copyright ©2015 Zesty South Indian Kitchen by Swathi(Ambujom Saraswathy) All Rights Reserved
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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.
Gloria says
payasam looks very yummy Swathi...i just love jackfruit and im going to try this .
maha says
though jack fruit is available here,i dont knw hw to clean n cook it..n its costly too.but this payasam making me hungry n forcing me to buy it..hope one day i vl do this kind of post..Hahahaha 🙂
julie says
This is interesting payasam,i have alaways seen chakka payasam with chakka varetti..Happy Vishu dear !!
Hadia Lebanese Cuisine says
What an awesome recipe, Swathi! This is somthing totally new to me! Love your clear step by step by recipe! Looks so good! Pinned and tweeted!
sona says
Chakka payasam is absolute favorite.. looks really delicious and tempting..
Gourmet Getaways says
Wow, we bet this pudding is sooo fragrant and has that lovely jackfruit flavour. We will try this one really soon!!!
Julie & Alesah
Gourmet Getaways xx
padma says
Sound so interesting and i'm drooling here:)..Great share dear:)
indu srinivasan says
delicious yummy payasam
Mullai Madavan says
Jack payasam is very tempting, luv to try sometime. Nice presentation too!
Susan@LunaCafe says
What an interesting dish and informative post. I've never tried jack fruit so this will be an adventure for me. 🙂
Hema says
Payasam looks so delicious, looks very tempting..
Sundari says
Yummy and inviting payasam!!
traditionallymodernfood says
Love this payasam,looks so delicious
nusrath jahan says
Payasam with Jack fruit is something new to me. ....looks delicious☺
Chitchat says
All I can say is just Awesome, awesome and awesome. Picture perfect payasam. Appreciate the illustrative clicks.
Nalini Somayaji says
inviting , delicious Jack fruit payasam...perfect festival food ..
Ritu ahuja says
Lovely pudding. Yum yum 🙂
farin ahmed says
Such an inviting, delicious and yummy payasam.. love tat big bowl
marudhuskitchen says
lovely flavourful payasam
Magee's KitchenWorld says
Creamy, Colorful and delicious!