How To Cook Canned Jackfruit
If you have a pressure cooker 10 minutes is usually enough.
How to cook canned jackfruit. Shaped like a plump fava bean with the coloration of a pinto bean it tastes like a combination of lotus. I tend to make a lot of canned jackfruit recipes because i prefer to use jackfruit as a vegan meat substitute over using fresh jackfruit for a sweet recipe. Pull and cut the jackfruit to remove the stringy parts that are between the fruit this is the part that you will use to make the pulled pork.
Jackfruit in this state can be harder to break apart and will be quite sticky. If you love potatoes beans and starchy veggies you are going to love the jackfruit seed. In these kinds of recipes jackfruit is strikingly similar to pulled pork or pulled chicken.
In brine or water green jackfruit is easy to turn into a wide variety of recipes including this vegan pulled pork just sauté until tender then stew in flavorful liquid. You will need to remove the skin and outer 0 5 1 5 cms of the jackfruit. It belongs to the same family as figs and mulberries but doesn t look or taste anything like either.
Canned jackfruit is a total timesaver. Let the jackfruit cook for about 15 minutes before shredding it with a pair of forks. Jackfruit grows in parts of asia and is the largest fruit that can be found on a tree.
How to cook with canned jackfruit. I ve tried multiple brands of tinned jackfruit in brine not syrup and my favorite brand of unripe jackfruit is native forest organic young jackfruit this post is not sponsored i just really love their product. Technique recipe via more vegan blog make hummus from jackfruit seeds.
Boil the jackfruit chunks for 45 minutes or until the inner flesh is soft and a bit stringy like chicken. Simmer drained and rinsed jackfruit in a skillet along with vegetable stock sliced onion and spices like cumin paprika and chili powder. Thanks to it s awesome stringy texture unripe canned jackfruit is getting a lot of buzz for its use in vegan and vegetarian recipes such as shredded bbq tacos sandwiches and curries.