Raw or tender jackfruit Biryani – Learn to make one pot meal Kathal biryani

Raw or tender jackfruit biryani is easy and flavorful one pot rice dish. Raw jackfruit is also called as kathal in hindi so the name kathal biryani.

This dish is a seasonal rice variety as the tender jackfruit is available in market for a very short time. This is a glutenfree recipe. In this recipe basmati rice is cooked with curd and Indian spices.

This can be enjoyed with raita made of cucumber, onion or any other raita of choice.

Raw jackfruit is rich in antioxidants, helps boost immunity and improves digestion due to high fibre content. It regulates blood sugar level and therefore it is considered as one among the superfoods.

Raw jackfruit when cooked has a meat texture. There are quite a few recipes prepared either by cooking or deep frying the raw jackfruit. I follow my own simple recipe with homemade biryani powder. Click for homemade biryani masala recipe here

How to prepare a perfect raw or tender jackfruit biryani

This is simple no frill easy to make biryani. Use good quality basmati rice. Soak the rice before cooking. This helps the removal of starch from rice and each grain cooks well.

The method to cut the raw jackfruit is described in detail in this post, click here raw jackfruit sambar

We prefer the raw jackfruit pieces in the biryani to be slightly blend with rice grains, hence I half cook the raw jackfruit separately. This step is very much optional.

Raw jackfruit pieces (uncooked) can be added directly while pressure cooking rice and masala. The other option is shallow frying the raw jackfruit pieces in oil and then mixing them with rice.

Traditionally biryani is cooked for long hours with marinated vegetables or in non-vegetarian dishes. This recipe is one pot pressure cooker method of preparing the biryani.

Recipe with step by step pictures

Heat a pressure cooker pan, add oil, shahi jeera, cinnamon sticks, bay leaf.  Also add cashew pieces and fry well. Now add chopped onion and tomato, sauté until it turns mushy.

Add ginger-garlic paste, chopped mint leaves, coriander leaves, green peas, sauté well.  Add thick curd, cook on low flame with mixing at intervals.

Next add biryani powder (homemade), red chili powder, mix well. Now add half cooked raw jackfruit, mix well. Add soaked rice, mix everything.  Add required quantity of water (approximately 5-6 cups of water), salt and pressure cook for 2 whistles. Release the pressure and serve hot with raita

The other rice varieties on blog, click below

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Raw or tender jackfruit Biryani

Subtly flavored tender jackfruit biryani made of homemade biryani powder. Raw jackfruit pieces flavored with Indian spices and cooked with basmati rice. This is a glutenfree recipe. Easy to make one pot meal rice recipe

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time40 mins

Total Time50 mins

Course: Rice

Cuisine: Indian, karnataka

Keyword: Glutenfree, Raw jackfruit, Rice

Servings: 4 people

Author: Pavithra M Adiga

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Ingredients

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• ▢ Basmati rice – 2 cups (soaked in water for 30 minutes)
• ▢ Refined oil – 2 tbsp
• ▢ Shahi jeera – 2 tsp
• ▢ Bay leaves – 2 nos
• ▢ Cinnamom stick – 2 medium sized
• ▢ Cashew nuts – 2 tbsp
• ▢ Onion – ¾ cup
• ▢ Tomato – ½ cup
• ▢ Ginger garlic paste -1 tbsp
• ▢ Mint or pudina leaves – ¼ cup
• ▢ Coriander leaves – ¼ cup
• ▢ Green peas – ¾ cup
• ▢ Curd 1 cup
• ▢ Biryani powder – 2 tbsp (homemade)
• ▢ Red chili powder – 1 tsp
• ▢ Raw jackfruit pieces (half cooked) – 3 cups
• ▢ Salt as per taste
• ▢ Water as required

Instructions

• Heat a pressure cooker pan, add oil, shahi jeera, cinnamon sticks, bay leaf. Saute well.
• Add cashew pieces and fry well. Now add chopped onion and tomato, sauté until it turns mushy.
• Add ginger-garlic paste, chopped mint leaves, coriander leaves, green peas, sauté well.
• Now add thick curd, cook on low flame with mixing at intervals.
• Now add biryani powder, red chili powder, mix well. Now add half cooked raw jackfruit, mix well. Add soaked rice, mix everything.
• Add required quantity of water (approximately 5-6 cups of water), salt and pressure cook for 2 whistles.
• Let the pressure release slowly and as the biryani cools down, gently mix and serve with raita of choice.

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Notes

Soak rice in water for 30 minutes this, this helps in proper cooking of rice grains.

When you add curd to the masala mixture, always cook on low flame, otherwise it gets burnt.

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