Delicious Jackfruit shortbread cookies with cardamom great combo for your tea/coffee or milk.
Jackfruit is one of my favorite fruit; you can call it as my weakness too. Whenever I see them I will buy them. It is huge fruit about 15-20 pound for a small one. I think I injected my weakness to my hubby too. He also joins me in buying one nowadays. Normally he will ask do you want this, will you finish it like that. I learned the technique looking for a good ripe jackfruit from a Philippine woman in Hong Kong Market. She told me to look for the same size eyes all over, and then it is a good ripe fruit just like the pineapple. This time I wanted to try something different with Jackfruit, so tried these Jackfruit shortbread cookies with cardamom. It is so delicious.
My love for jackfruit is not translated into my kids, they are not fans, and daughter will at least try a piece of fruit, but joins in cutting, separating fruit and seeds. Here is the post on how to cut the jackfruit. My son doesn’t even bother to check what is happening. Entire jackfruit is for both husband and wife. I tried almost all the traditional recipes with Jackfruit. I tried jackfruit payasam/ pudding in two ways. First one is with preserved jackfruit; other with fresh fruits. I have also made jackfruit preserve or Chakka varatti, and Chakka unniyappam, a sweet made with rice flour and jackfruit. Then made two version steamed rice parcels calls chakkaa elayappam with preserve and then grinding with fresh jackfruit, rice, jaggery (raw Indian sugar).
I have more traditional dish that I want to make with jackfruit, that is kumbilappam for that I need a cinnamon tree leaves, which I can find it here. So it won’t happen. Even thought of growing the plant but it won’t survive the winter here. I also tried jackfruit ice cream.
Then I decided to make jackfruit cupcakes, cakes and muffins. However my jackfruit was getting low and only ½ cup chopped ones with 3 more jackfruit pieces are left. So decide to try this shortbread cookies, I got the base recipe from this book “The New Sugar & Spice: A Recipe for Bolder Baking: by Samantha Seneviratne which I reviewed here. Added the chopped jackfruit along with it and baked at 325°F for 18 - 20 minutes. If you like ripe jackfruits which taste like a cross between a banana and a pineapple then these Jackfruit shortbread cookies are for you; never look back to any other shortbread cookies. I promise, here come the recipe.
Delicious Jackfruit shortbread cookies with cardamom, goes well with cup of tea/coffee or milk.
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup/164g All purpose flour
- ⅓ cup/ 46g Confectioners’ sugar
- 2 tablespoon/ 30g Brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon/2g/20 cardamom pods
- ½ cup chopped jackfruit
- ⅔ cup /151g butter ( soften at room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 F
- In a kitchen-aid mixer bowl, add all purpose flour, confectioner’s sugar, brown sugar, cardamom, and salt and mix well
- To this add soft butter and vanilla extract and mix until everything combined well.
- To this add chopped jackfruit pieces and mix again.
- Remove it from the bowl and make it into a log and warp with plastic wrap and freeze for about 15-20 minutes.
- When you are ready to bake remove the dough from the freezer and cut it into ½ inch thick slices
- Place it in cookie sheet about 2 inch apart and bake at 325F for 20 minutes or until it top golden brown color and sides becomes browner in color.
- Remove from the oven and set aside for 10 minutes in cookies in the cookie sheet and then cool completely and store it airtight container.
Notes
Shortbread cookie base is adapted from here
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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.
kim says
Just tried these with fresh jackfruit. So yummy, but definitely needed to grease the cookie sheet.
Mullai Madavan says
Jack fruit in cookies is totally new to me, would love to try some! I wished i lived closer to you....
Winnie says
Lovely cookies!! I love cardamon but never added it to cookies. I'm definitely going to try
Shobha Rawal says
Lovely and different cookies.... Perfect for tea time.
Hema says
The cookies look so perfect and delicious, should have smelled delcious too..
Hadia says
The cookies really sound so good, Swathi. I love the addition of jackfruit. Pinning and tweeting.
Tricia says
I've never heard of jackfruit, but these cookies look great! I would love to try them!
Akhil says
Great to see a cool dish make from the humble Jackfruit ! University of Sydney has now found Raw Jackfruit to be effective in reducing high blood sugar level and reversing the diabetic condition.
Just in case you missed you can find a lot more recipes to experiment here:)
http://jackfruit365.com/recipe.html
marudhuskitchen says
never thought jackfruit can be infused in a cookie ...love this short bread
kushi says
WOW! Cookies with jackfruit sounds so interesting. I will try as soon as it is available where I stay. Bookmarked!
Mayuri Patel says
I am not a fan of jackfruit but the cookies surely look so tempting. An innovative recipe.
Rafeeda says
Totally love this idea of jackfruit bites in shortbread! Truly innovative...
Suja Manoj says
Definitely worth a try, adipoli aayitundu.
beena says
Wow superb. Will try
babitha says
great swathi, will try
Rani Vijoo says
Wow! Very interesting recipe with jack fruit. Cookies look perfect and delicious!