Jackfruit - Introduction Commercial availability

The jackfruit bears fruit three years after planting and the fruit is the largest edible fruit in commerce.

In the United States and Europe, the fruit is available in shops that sell exotic products, usually sold canned with a sugar syrup. It is also obtained fresh from Asian food markets. Sweet jackfruit chips are also often available.

The wood is used for the production of musical instruments in Indonesia as part of the gamelan and in the Philippines, where its soft wood can be made into the hull of a kutiyapi, a type of Philippine boat lute. It is also used to make the body of the Indian drums mridangam and kanjira. It is also widely used for manufacture of furniture.

 
Dishes and preparations
A kutiyapi, made of jackfruit wood
Jackfruit is commonly used in South and Southeast Asian cuisines. It can be eaten unripe (young) or ripe, and cooked or uncooked. The seeds can also be used in certain recipes.

Unripe (young) jackfruits are also eaten whole, cooked as a vegetable. Young jackfruit has a mild flavour and distinctive texture. The cuisines of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Vietnam use cooked young jackfruit. In many cultures, jackfruit is boiled and used in curries as a food staple.
Sweet Jackfruit chips

    * Chakka Pradaman: Jackfruit pudding from Kerala, India.
    * Chakka Varatti: Jackfruit Jam from Kerala, India.
    * Chakka Vattal: Jackfruit Chips from Kerala, India.
    * Panasa Koora: Traditional Jackfruit Curry from coastal Andhra, India.
    * Gudeg: traditional dish from Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.
    * Lodeh: traditional Indonesian vegetable dish with coconut milk.
    * An optional ingredient in Sayur asam (Indonesian clear soup; the name means tamarind vegetables)
    * Also ingredient in Indonesian traditional Padang cuisine.
    * Jackfruit salad: Vietnamese dish with boiled young jackfruit.
    * Rice and curry in Sri Lanka

The seeds can also be eaten cooked or baked like beans. They taste similar to chestnuts.

 
Other preparations:

    * Jackfruit chips
    * Asian ice desserts (including Indonesian & Filipino)
    * Turon, a Filipino dessert made of banana and jackfruit wrapped in an eggroll wrapper
    * Sometimes an added ingredient for cassava cake
    * An optional ingredient in kolak (an Indonesian mung bean and coconut based dessert).
    * It is thought that jackfruit is the basis for the flavour of Juicy Fruit chewing gum.
    * Jackfruit candy

 
Names
The fruit is called a variety of names around the world:

South Asian names

    * Bengali: কাঁঠাল Kãţhal (National fruit of Bangladesh)
    * Bhojpuri: Katahar
    * Kannada: Halasina hannu
    * Hindi: Katahal
    * Malayalam: Chakka
    * Marathi: फणस Phaṇas
    * Oriya: Panasa
    * Sinhala: Kos
    * Tamil: Palaa
    * Telugu: Panasa
    * Sanskrit: Panasam

Southeast Asian names

    * Cebuano: Nangka
    * Indonesian: Nangka
    * Lao: Mak mii
    * Malay: Nangka
    * Tagalog: Langka
    * Thai: ขนุน Kanoon
    * Vietnamese: Mít

East Asian names

    * Chinese: 波罗蜜 Bōluómì
    * Korean: 바라밀 Baramil

African names

    * Malagasy: Finésy
    * Swahili: Finesi

European names

    * Portuguese: Jaca
    * Spanish: Jaka; Fruta de Jack


Cite: Wikipedia

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