The fried breadfruit recipe is a delicious, nutritious snack or side dish idea. You can serve these fries instead of potato French Fries/ Chips with other meals.
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What is a Breadfruit?
Breadfruit is a starchy round fruit, which is about 1–2 pounds (½ - 1 kg) heavy. The breadfruit tastes rather plain and can be compared to the flavor of a potato, which is rather starchy.
The fruit acts like a sponge in a way and takes in flavors easily, and that's why I like to marinate it. I learned this technique from my husband, in Goa, India.
Breadfruit commonly grows in tropical climates and countries such as in South East Asia, India, and on the Caribbean Islands, including Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and all the other smaller Islands.
Process Overview
Step 1 — Cutting the Fruit
Cut the tough peel off the breadfruit. Most breadfruits are seedless. If you have breadfruit with seeds, take out the large brown chestnut-sized seeds, which can be found at the ring around the center.
Cut the fruit into quarters and cut out the center part with the large pores as this is rather fibrous. You can choose to cut your breadfruit into larger or smaller chip-sized pieces. Don't slice too thin or too thick.
Step 2 — The Marination
In a bowl mix the marination ingredients (details in the recipe card further below). Mix the marination into the breadfruit pieces and leave to marinate for at least 30 minutes.
Step 3 — Frying the Breadfruit
Heat up a pan with oil and fry your breadfruit on both sides golden brown and crisp.
📖 Recipe
Pan-Fried Spiced Breadfruit Slices
Ingredients
- 1 Breadfruit about 2.2 pounds or 1 kg
For the marination
- 1 Teaspoon Turmeric Ground
- 1 Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper Ground
- ½ Teaspoon Salt
- ½ Teaspoon Black Pepper Ground
- Juice of ½ lime
For the frying
- ½ cup Oil fry batch wise, ¼ cup Oil first and then the rest
Instructions
- Peel the Breadfruit, then half and quarter it. Discard the fruit core. If you have a breadfruit variety with large chestnut sized seeds in the ring area, take out all the seeds too (most breadfruits are seedless and don't have that. The fruit will change color, that's alright.1 Breadfruit
- Cut the fruit into thicker slices. Not too thick and not too thin. Somewhere in between.1 Breadfruit
- Mix the marination ingredients together including the turmeric, cayenne pepper, salt, black pepper and lime juice.1 Teaspoon Turmeric Ground, 1 Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper Ground, ½ Teaspoon Salt, ½ Teaspoon Black Pepper Ground, Juice of ½ lime
- Pour the marination over the breadfruit in an extra large bowl and mix it all well together. No liquid residue will be left.
- Heat up some cooking oil in a pan and once hot add the marinated fruit slices. Fry on each side until golden brown. Use ¼ cup of oil to fry half of the batch. *see Notes½ cup Oil
- Serve with some salt sprinkled over it with a dipping sauce of your choice.
Notes
- You can choose to only fry ½ of the batch, which I do because it gets too much sometimes. I refrigerate the other half. That means half of the breadfruit slices are fried in ¼ cup of oil. If you fry all the breadfruit pieces, then use first ¼ cup of oil and add the other ¼ cup to the pan when you are halfway through frying everything.
Nutrition
Serving
Serve the cooked fried breadfruit with a dip such as ketchup, mayonnaise, or Sriracha Mayonnaise to enjoy it as a snack.
Or enjoy this as a fried side dish, the same way as you would serve French fries.
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