As Food: Fruit is eaten like a vegetable; cooked, boiled, fried, etc; seeds are also cooked like a vegetable.
As Medicine: Ripe fruit helps improve body strength; sap helps heal wounds and swelling near wounds; ripe fruit helps control bleeding in wounds.
Cooking Method: Fruit is eaten like a vegetable; cooked, boiled, fried, etc; seeds are also cooked like a vegetable.
Preservation / Curing Technique: Can be made into jam.
Does Require Another Plants to be cooked together: No
Souring Agents Required: N/A
Nutritional & Medicinal Benefits
Nutritional Benefit: Rich in fiber, vitamin C and potassium.
Medicinal Benefit: Helps improve body strength, heal wounds and swelling, and control bleeding in wounds.
Tribal Wisdom
Tribal Wisdom: Ripe fruit helps improve body strength; sap helps heal wounds and swelling near wounds; ripe fruit helps control bleeding in wounds.
Recipes / Usage
Tribal Recipe / Usage: Jackfruit sabji:
In a bowl, take 15 pieces of raw jackfruit, soaked in salt water to prevent discoloration. Add ½ cup curd, spices, and marinate for 30 minutes. Fry marinated jackfruit in 2 tbsp oil. In another pan, heat 2 tbsp oil and sauté spices, onion, and ginger garlic paste. Add more spices and tomatoes, cook well. Mix in fried jackfruit, add water, cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Finish with garam masala and coriander.
