Chakka Pradhaman

Ingredients

• • Jackfruits (ripe) - 1 cup
• • Coconut - ½
• • Jaggery (grated) - ¾ cup
• • Ghee - 1 ½ teaspoons
• • Cashew nuts - 1 tablespoon
• • Cardamom powder - ¼ teaspoon

Method

• 1. Grate coconut, grind with little water and take two extracts. Mix both extracts together.
• 2. Remove inner seeds from jackfruit and chop into very small pieces.
• 3. Heat one cup water in a vessel. When it starts boiling, add jackfruit pieces and cook till it becomes soft.
• 4. Add jaggery and coconut extract.
• 5. Mix in reduced flame till jaggery melts completely.
• 6. Fry cashew nut in ghee. Add cardamom powder to hot ghee and mix with payasam.
• 7. When good smell comes from payasam, remove from fire.