Well, I am not sure how to put this, but I never thought that I would ever do this recipe! Yes, this is Jackfruit fritter, the one fruit that I am not particularly fond of, because it leaves a hint of jackfruit smell everywhere, if you are not careful. Somehow I had some jackfruit left over in my freezer from summer, which I decided to make some fritters out of them.

Jackfruit is a huge fruit, with a leathery spiky skin but has many yellow pods inside, usually crunchy but otherwise soft and slimy. There’s a stone inside every pod, which is also edible and super delicious and that is the main reason for buying this fruit! I actually bought this Jackfruit from a Bangladeshi association in Denmark, directly imported from Bangladesh. Even though I mainly bought this for the seeds, I am happy how the fruity part turned out.

To make this sweet fritters, we are gonna need the typical ingredients like flour, baking powder, sugar and oil to fry. But I will use a key ingredient for this fritters/pitha is course rice flour which makes the fritter more crispy.

Since the fruit parts was frozen, I defrosted for a few hours. Then I blended fruits with sugar and made into very fine puree.

Then in another bowl, I mixed the dry ingredients first – wheat flour, rice flour, cinnamon powder and nigella seeds. Then I added the jackfruit puree to the dry batter and stirred until very well incorporated. Luckily the amount I have chosen was just perfect that I didn’t have to add anything extra at all!

Like usual, for frying the fritters, I heated oil in a deep but small iron wok and started putting the batter in a fritters shape in hot oil. If you think the batter is runny, then you can add more flour to it.

I flipped the fritters when one side is done. The raw fritter should be sizzling like in the picture. When both sides of the fritters are golden brown, I took it from oil and put them on paper towel to soak the extra oil. How to know the fritters are done- when they stops sizzling in oil.

So this is how the crispy sweet jackfruit fritter turned out. They actually tasted pretty good and didn’t have that jackfruit hinted smell in the fritters. Its a perfect snacks for any evening or so to speak, snacks for any guest. So next time, if you can’t eat a whole jackfruit, save enough in your freezer, then you can make the fritters at any season!

Recipe: Sweet Jackfruit fritters / kathaler er pitha

Ingredients: Jackfruit – 250g (1 cup) Sugar – 50g (or according to your taste) (1/4 cup) Rice flour – 50g (1/3 cup) Plain wheat flour – 65g (1/2 cup) Baking powder – 1/2 tsp Salt – a pinch cinnamon powder – optional oil – to fry

1. Blend jackfruit into smooth paste with sugar. Make puree until sugar dissolves. 2. Mix rice flour, wheat flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl and stir in until fully incorporated. Add jackfruit puree to the dry batter and mix with batter until well incorporated. 3. Heat oil in a pan and fry taking one spoonful batter for each fritter. 4. Fry until the bottom of each fritter is golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes and then flip. 5. Strain from oil when both sides of fritters is golden brown and put them over a paper towel to soak extra oil. Serve hot with tea as an evening time snacks.