Palakai kulambu/green jackfruit curry

Ingredients

• 1/2 no Green Jackfruit
• 1 no Clove
• 1/2" Cinnamon Stick
• 1/2 teaspoon Ginger/Garlic (slightly crushed)
• 1 no Cardamom
• 1 small Bay leaf
• 1 no Large Onion (sliced)
• 1 no Tomato
• 1 teaspoon Tamarind paste
• 3 nos Green chillies
• 1 sprig Curry leaves
• 1/2 Coconut (extract milk first press, second press)
• 1 tablespoon Kulambu podi
• 4-5 tablespoons Oil
• 1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon Urad dal
• Salt to taste

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Preparation

• Remove the thick outer green skin from the jackfruit. ( Take care to apply a little oil on your hands and the knife.)
• Cut the jackfruit into little chunks. Heat a kadai and add all the ingredients ,reserving the first pressed coconut milk,oil,mustasrd seeds and urad dal.
• Let the mixture come to a boil and add the remaining coconut milk. When the jackfruit is cooked , heat oil in a seperate kadai and add the mustard seeds and urad dal.
• When the mustard seeds pop add the oil to the jack fruit curry. Serve with steamed rice.