The great jackfruit adventure

In the market, I bought a knife dedicated to this adventure to save my one and only knife from the stickiness that is...

Josh brought home a huge jackfruit. Our Acoli friends decided that it was not quite ready yesterday, but today... today was the jackfruit day!

I am SO grateful for our Acoli friends who managed the jackfruit for me! This extremely sticky but yummy fruit is a lot of work to prepare! For Americans who are averse to any food that requires substantial work, jackfruit is NOT the fruit for you (hence why I am so grateful for our friends!).

The flesh is so very good raw, but, having some time, some friends to wrangle children while I cook, and some Acoli teenagers who are amazed at what I can do with a gas stove instead of charcoal, I wanted to try my hand at making jackfruit chips.

ALSO yummy! NOT healthy for you! A little tumeric, salt, and water thrown into the oil while frying and here's a simple but delicious way to cook jackfruit.

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Jaime and Wes said…

Mmmm - jackfruit! I'd forgotten what it was exactly (we had it a few times in Cambodia, but not frequently). I never had to cut one open - looks like a lot of work. :) I do remember it was quite tasty (never had it fried - but anything is great fried!) ;)

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