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Fried Breadfruit | Breadfruit Rava Fry

Breadfruit rava fry is a traditional Goan recipe, in which breadfruit is sliced, marinated with spice powders, coated with rava and shallow fried. This breadfruit fry is served as aside dish in the Goan cuisine. Breadfruit also known as neerpanas or neerphanas is available during the summer season. Konkan is in Karnataka call this recipe as jeev kadgi phodi or jeevkadgi podi.
Course Appetizer, Appetizers, Side Dish
Cuisine Goan, Indian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Author Raksha Kamat

Ingredients

For frying:

  • 1/2 breadfruit/neerpanas/jeevkadgi
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoon oil for frying

For the coating:

  • ½ cup rava/semolina
  • 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt

Instructions

  • Wash the breadfruit and cut into halves. Then cut the halves into quarters. Using a peeler or knife, peel the breadfruit and remove the central core. Then cut the breadfruit into slices.
  • Apply chili powder, turmeric powder and salt to the breadfruit slices and keep aside for 5-10 minutes. (refer to “for the coating” section in ingredients for quantity).
  • In a small plate, mix rava, turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt and keep aside. (refer to “for the frying” section in ingredients for quantity).
  • Coat the sliced breadfruit in rava.
  • Heat a frying pan and spread 1 tablespoon oil on it.
  • Arrange the rava coated slices on the frying pan one by one.
  • Spread 1-2 tablespoon oil on top of the rava coated breadfruit. Cover and cook.
    In between, sprinkle 1 teaspoon water by hand over the breadfruit slices, cover and cook to speed up cooking.
  • After 10 minutes, flip to the other side and fry for 10 more minutes.
  • Check whether the breadfruit is cooked by poking in the centre with a knife or spoon. If it is soft and it gets cut easily then it’s done.

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Notes

  • Breadfruit slices can be cut of any thickness. If cut thin, then fry breadfruit for lesser time as compared to when sliced thick.
  • Do not slice breadfruit more than 1 cm thick.
  • In between, sprinkle 1 teaspoon water by hand over the breadfruit slices, cover and cook to speed up cooking.