Jack Fruit Seed Stir fry | Palakottai Podimas | Simple and Yummy Recipes

Palakottai Podimas - Jackfruit seed Podimas - Jackfruit seed stir-fry - Palakottai Poriyal

Palakottai Podimas / Jackfruit Seed stir fry is an easy and tasty South Indian recipe and makes an excellent side dish for plain rice with sambar, rasam and curd. We call this Jack fruit seed as ' Palakottai ' in Tamil.

In South India, we add jackfruit seeds to sambar, aviyal, mix veg kootu etc.... Try making sambar with jackfruit seed along with some drumsticks, that sambar will have a different awesome to it and you will definitely fall in love with it. Whenever there is Jackfruit season, I will never miss making sambar and podimas ( stirfry ) with jackfruit seeds.
For all the stir-fries, we usually add grated coconut at the end. I have not added any coconut here, if you wish and you want more quantity, add some grated coconut at the end.
For the sambar recipe with the drumstick, check this link here " Drumstick Sambar ". Add Jack fruit seeds along with drumstick and follow the same instruction as mentioned.

Ingredients

• 1 Onion, medium-sized, chopped finely
• 2 Green chillies, finely chopped
• 1/2 inch Ginger piece, finely chopped
• 15 nos of Jack Fruit Seeds / Palakottai
• 1/2 tbsp Channa Dal
• 1 tsp Mustard seeds
• Few Curry Leaves
• Salt as required
• 2 tbsp Oil

Preparation :

• Place the jack fruit seeds with 1 cup of water and a little salt in a pressure cooker. Pressure cook for 1 or 2 whistles and switch off the flame. When the steam goes down, open the lid. Drain the water, mash the seeds partially and keep aside.

• Instead of using the pressure cooker, you can also boil the jack fruit seeds in a pan till it is done.

Method :

• Heat oil in a pan, when hot add channa dal / Bengal gram and mustard seeds. Allow it to splutter.

• Add onion, ginger, green chillies, curry leaves and fry till onion turns light brown in colour.

• Add required salt and mashed jack fruit seeds. Mix well and stir-fry for a minute and remove from the stove.

• Serve it with plain rice and sambar, rasam and curd.

You can even add grated coconut at the end, mix well and serve.