Every Bengali loves green jackfruit, or echor. It can be cooked in many ways, with or without meat.
You can serve this dish at a family meal or at any occasion. Once you taste it, the flavour will stay with you. Here is the recipe.
Ingredients
- Chicken, as needed
- 250g green jackfruit
- Ginger
- Garlic paste
- Green chillies
- Cumin paste
- Dried chilli powder
- Garam masala
- Bay leaves
- Ghee
- Chopped tomato
- Whole garam masala
All ingredients should be taken as needed.
Method
Boil the green jackfruit and drain off the water. Then heat mustard oil in a pan, lightly fry the whole garam masala and bay leaves, add small pieces of chicken and sauté well.
When the meat is lightly fried, add salt, turmeric, onion paste, garlic paste and tomato puree and sauté well.
Then lower the heat and cook covered. When it is well sautéed, mix in the boiled green jackfruit and sauté again.
Add a little hot water if needed. Taste to check that everything is right, then mix in ghee and ground garam masala.
Take it off the heat when it has a thick, clinging gravy. Your mouth-watering chicken bhuna with green jackfruit is ready.
Source: Jagonews24. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.
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