Another native plant is jackfruit. Tender jackfruit is a delicacy in India. Apart from being prepared as vegetables, curries, and pickles, its flour is also used as a cereal substitute due to its fiber and resistant starch content, lower GI and high nutritive value when compared to wheat and...
The sweet jackfruit stew is boiled for hours in coconut milk and palm sugar, making the fruit so soft and tender it falls apart with little chewing. Other spices are thrown into the mix but teak leaves give it a brown coloring. Like nasi uduk, it’s served with rice, boiled egg, chick...