Cooking jackfruit seeds

Removing the skin and cutting of jackfruit seeds is a tricky and time consuming job if you don’t know the trick.

One method, when they are fresh, is to pressure cook it for 5 to 7 minutes, drain and spread on a plate to dry. If they are wet, you won’t be able to remove skin as the seed will be very slippery. After some time, cover with another plate and invert the whole thing so that the lower wet sides are now on top and let it dry again. Now it is easy to remove the outer skin with a knife and then they are cut.

Second method: If you can dry the seeds for a couple of days, the outer skin will become loose and can be easily removed using a knife. Now pressure cook them for about 8 minutes. Cool, open the pressure cooker, drain the seed and cut.

Thirdly, you can roast the seeds on a thava or thick bottomed pan for sometime and then on cooling the skin can come off easily.