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Going for Jack

Yesterday, our family friend sent me a link..... http://panasamwonders.blogspot.com.
It's a blog dedicated to the jack fruit.

The jack season is round the corner. Soon, households in the Malnad, Udupi, Mangalore, Kerala,.... will be making their favourite jack fruit dishes. First, tender jackfruit palya . Later on, dosa , varieties of dishes, curries, chips,... And, finally, the ripe fruit - as itself, and, in dosa, idli, payasam,... Alongside, the raw fruit will be preserved in brine and as papad. The ripe fruit will also be preserved as jam, papad,...

With so many time tested recipes, it's not surprising that there is such a huge demand for processed jack fruit, both, within the country and abroad. The farming community in India has woken up to this demand. Though in its infancy, the processing/ marketing industry is rapidly growing thanks to the efforts of a group of committed people - through jackfruit melas, print media, blogs,...

Not exactly my favourite fruit. But, I support the view that what is popular and grows abundantly without extra care/ investment should be marketed - to supplement the agriculturist's income.

Here's wishing the cause well... :)
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  1. Nanda Kishor B16 January, 2011

    :) nice one..

    please visit my wordpress blog too.
    manglurmani.wordpress.com

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  2. Arun Shimoga17 January, 2011

    Madam, your write up on jack fruit is interesting. I remember in one of the jack fruit melas held in Sagar, Shimoga district, a competition was held wherein the participants were asked to prepare as many dishes as possible from jack fruit. More than 80 dishes were prepared from jack fruit - including the 'kadubu' made using the leaves. First prize went to a lady from a village near Sagar. She prepared pheda from the jack fruit seed. Later I was fortunate enough to have lunch in her home a couple of years later when I happened to attend a discussion on traditional and ancient agri practices and the organic farming. Being a bad eater, I could not enjoy all the dishes she had prepared. She had served nearly 10 varieties of dishes made of jack fruit that day for lunch.

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  3. Soumya19 January, 2011

    @ Nanda Kishor, thanks.
    I called on ಮನದ ಮಾತು just now. It is quite good... Best wishes :)

    @ Arun sir, thank you.
    10 varieties out of jack for one meal! That lady deserves to be champion!!
    'Peda' from the seeds is a dish that I hadn't heard of till now. I have eaten 'Holige' made out of the seeds - long ago.. the sheer labour involved in making the dish has made it quite obsolete.
    Haven't seen 'Krackjack' biscuits in the market for a long time, but, powdered jack seeds were among the ingredients used to make them.

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  4. Arun Shimoga19 January, 2011

    Madam, I did not know that krackjack has jack seed powder. I thought, like in other biscuits, here too rice or wheat bran is used.
    'Manada maathu' is good.

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  5. Soumya21 January, 2011

    Not as main ingredient...it is one of the 'secret' ingredients.
    Turns out that Ms.Champion aka Geetakka, knows more than 300 recipes out of jack! I hope she documents them/ writes a book,....

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  6. Arun Shimoga21 January, 2011

    Wonderful.

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  7. Sandhya21 February, 2011

    Jack fruit growers may be happy / amused to know that the Exotic Fruit Club in the US offers to deliver ONE good quality fruit for a price of nearly $100 (as reported at panasamwonders.blogspot.com).

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