How can I prepare Jack fruit to simulate the texture of pork?
The best fake meat I've ever had was in Srilanka. 10 years ago I traveled to the Kandy mountains in Srilanka, where I had the most extraordinary non-meat stew. Jack fruit, potatoes, long onions, a strange circular bitter eggplant veggie thing, and other stuff I can't remember. This was stewed with cow bones on a open fire for several hours in a cauldron sealed with banana leaves and topped with a rock. Ok, the flavor did come from cow, but the texture of the meat was truly meat! If I didn't know that it was jack fruit I was eating, I woulda sworn it was pork!
Does anyone know how to make this?
Best Answer
I believe you, as I've had "pulled pork" jackfruit before at a restaurant. I haven't made it myself, but here's a recipe.
The essentials seem to be to use canned, brined jackfruit, rinsed clean and squeezed free of water, then slow cooked for about an hour. This recipe calls for "pulling" the jackfruit apart with a couple of forks, but this may be different from the texture you experienced in that stew--perhaps you'll get this texture that way, or perhaps you'll need to slow cook it for longer without pulling?
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How do you give jackfruit a meat texture?
Since it has such a neutral flavor, the jackfruit will take on the flavors of whatever you cook it in! To make it taste like taco meat, simply shred the jackfruit to create a pulled meat texture, then saute it with onions, garlic, and taco seasoning.Can you use ripe jackfruit as a meat substitute?
Jackfruit is a very large tropical fruit often used as a meat substitute. It packs some nutritional wallop, and the fact that you can cook, chunk or shred it like chicken or pork makes it a go-to main ingredient in many vegetarian and vegan dishes. Its flavor is neutral, and it takes to all kinds of seasonings.How do you cook jackfruit for meat?
InstructionsDoes jackfruit taste like pork?
The jackfruit texture is not dissimilar to a banana, mango, or pineapple in terms of being dense and fibrous. But the taste is quite distinctive. Some say it's sweet, and some say a jackfruit has a flavor similar to pulled pork, especially when cooked.What is Jackfruit? How to make Jackfruit into Vegan Pulled Pork
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