Raw jack fruit keema Matar (Green peas)

• Servings: 4
• Preparation time: 15 minutes.
• Cooking time: 20-25 minutes.
• Total time: 40 minutes.

As you know jack fruit is called super food. It has so many vitamins and minerals and especially raw jackfruit is powerful anti diabetic medicine. The recipe ‘jackfruit keema Matar’ can be eaten by diabetic as it has plenty of fiber too.

Ingredients:

• Peas: 1 cup (150-200 gm.)
• Raw jack fruit: 150-200 gm
• Mustard oil/cooking oil: 3 tablespoon
• Fresh cream: 3 tablespoon
• Onion: 100 gm
• Cumin seed: 1 teaspoon.
• Salt: 1 ½ teaspoon (as per taste)
• Red Chilli powder: 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon
• Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
• Garam masala powder: half teaspoon
• Ginger: 2 inch piece
• Garlic: 4-6 flakes
• Green chilli: 1 no.
• Tomato: 1 no. (Medium size)
• Red chilli: 1 no.

Preparation:

Peel and cut Jackfruit:

1. Jackfruit with the help of knife and chopping board (Rub with oil the chopping board, knife and your hands so that sticky milk of jackfruits can be easily removed), put jackfruit slices in a bowl filled with water (otherwise it will turn dark brown as it contains lot of iron), mince the jackfruit with mixer grinder, keep aside.
2. Chop onion, tomato and green chilli, keep aside.
3. Make paste of ginger, garlic, keep aside.

Method:

1. Heat oil in a pan; add cumin, whole red chilli, sputter for few seconds, add chopped onion and green chilli; fry it in high flame for couple of minutes or till it gets translucent, add keema (minced raw jackfruit) and ginger garlic paste, continue to fry; cover and cook on low flame for about 8-10 minutes on low flame or till it half done.
2. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and salt, stir fry and cover and cook on lower flame for couple of minutes; add tomato and again cook on lower flame till tomato gets messy in appearance.
3. Add peas and fresh cream, fry for couple of minutes; reduce to the flame low, cook till vegetables are done.
4. Add Garam masala powder, put off the flame, ‘raw jackfruit keema Matar’ is ready to serve with Dost Paratha, Chapati or any meal.

Raw jack fruit keema Matar (Green peas) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.