Jackfruit Soup / Palapazha Rasam

Rasam is always my favorite. After searching in net, got the recipe from Ramani's recipes and thought to give a try. It was really very delicious. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients

• Jackfruits - 5 to 6
• Thuvar dhal water - 1/2 cup (Optional)
• Mustard Seeds - a pinch
• Tomato - 1 (cut into pieces)
• Tamarind - 1/2 lemon size
• Dry Red Chillies - 2 to 3
• Rasam Powder - 2 tsp
• Curry Leaves - few
• Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Pepper seeds - 1/5th tsp (crushed) 
• Asafoetida - a pinch
• Coriander leaves - few
• Oil - 1 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tsp
• Salt - as per taste
• Water - 4 cups
• Turmeric - a pinch (Optional)
• Sugar/Jaggery - 1/2 to 1 tsp (Optional)

Method

• Pressure cook the toor dal (Thuvaram paruppu) with 3 cups of water adding a pinch of turmeric and keep aside.
• Soak the tamarind in 1 cup of water for 10 to 15 min and extract the water alone.
• In a kadai or pan, add oil, mustard seeds and cumin seeds, red chillies, curry leaves and fry for a min. 
• Add the Jackfruit pieces and add ghee and saute well or till they become little soft.

• Now add the tomato pieces or crushed tomato.
• Now add in the tamarind water, dal water, salt, pepper powder, rasam powder, Asafoetida and if needed add 1 more cup of water and cook in medium flame.
• When it starts boiling, add in the sugar/jaggery(optional) and coriander leaves and switch off.
• Serve the hot and have Jackfruit rasam with rice and papad.

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Jack fruit Kheer | Palapazha Payasam | Payasam Recipes | Easy South Indian Payasam Recipes | Kheer Recipes

This Jack fruit payasam or Jack fruit kheer is a new dish for me, which I got from here. It was really quick, easy and tastes wonderful. I just loved the taste.  I just used the same recipe, with little change of adding fried cashews, jack fruit and raisins, as I loved the crunchiness of the jack fruit and the cashews. Here we go for the recipe - Jack fruit payasam.

Ingredients

• Jackfruits (ripe) - 6
• Milk - 2 cups
• Coconut Milk - 1/4 cup
• Grated Coconut - 2 tsp
• Sugar - 1/4 cup (Increased or decreased as needed)
• Cardamom - 2 to 3 (crushed)
• Cashews - 10 to 15
• Saffron - a pinch

Method

• Soak cashews for 10 min in warm milk.
• Cut the jackfruit and cook in little water.
• Take one jackfruit and cut into small pieces which is used later.
• Now grind the remaining jackfruit in little milk and make into a smooth paste and keep aside.
• Now in the same mixie, add the soaked cashews and grated coconut and little milk and grind to smooth paste.
• Now in a heavy pan, add cashew coconut paste, jackfruit paste, sugar, coconut milk and remaining milk and allow to boil.
• Meanwhile, fry the 1 tsp cashews and raisins in ghee and transfer to the boiling payasam.
• Add the cut jackfruit and give a stir. (this step is optional)
• Add the crushed cardamom and saffron, garnish and serve hot or cold.

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Flavors of South India by simply.food