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In summer the winter vegetables disappear

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 12 May

In Calcutta it is summer having temperature around 38 degree celsius. The summer vegetables like ladies finger, jackfruit, pointed gourd are cooked and eaten. The winter vegetables like cauliflowers, spring onions disappeared....

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It is nice to see the jackfruits hanging from the trees

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 4 Mar

The jackfruits are really funny vegetable and fruits. When vegetable they are called enchor in bengali and eat it with potatoes and rice. When fruit they become yellow and called kanthal and is eaten leaving the seeds apart. Even...

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Rose, Mango And Jackfruit

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50162) • India 2 Feb

The "Ramayan" is one of our most sacred epics.There is a verse in it. It advises us not to make false claims. It says, there are three types of persons in the world - rose, mango and jackfruit. A rose plant bear flowers. The...

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My Yummy Jackfruit I harvest from my farm.

vilma143 @vilma143 (2915) • Dipolog, Philippines 3 Aug

I plant the Jackfruit seed five years ago. When it grown up now it bear a fruit. When I smell the sweetness of the fruit. I decided to pick and taste the juicy fruit. The Jackfruit seed is now bearing fruits more, I learned to...

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My mother and wife use waxgourd both as a paste and vegetable

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 10 Jul

The waxgourd or wintermelon is called chalkumro in bengali. They are watery like bottlegourd. My mother and wife boil them after cutting in small pieces add the seeds of jackfruit add zeera salt turmeric and make a paste. It is...

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In the forests the jackfruits are of giant size

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 23 Jun

I was just amazed to see the jackfruits grow to giant size. They were giants. They bulged out of the tree and may be the gum helped in sticking the fruit and not falling down on the ground. Heavy rain in the rain forests help the...

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Today I had jackfruit curry with rice

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 21 Apr 25

In bengal jackfruit is eaten both as a vegetable and also as fruit. Presently it is in vegetable form. We call it enchor in bengali. I had jackfruit curry with potatoes and ate it with chapatis. When it will get ripe it will be...

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Jackfruits

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 7 Mar 25

Loads of jackfruits I see on the trees. Hopefully there will be a demand Problem is to harvest them. Cleaning a jackfruit is quite cumbersome It has that sticky gum that can only be cleared by using a bit of oil on the hands...

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Today I had drumstick brinjal potato curry with rice.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 26 Jun 24

Today I had drumstick brinjal potato curry with rice. Drumstick in bengali is called danta. Also pumpkin is added in the curry. Some bengali use the seeds of jackfruit boil them and add in the curry. It tastes nice.

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In bengal once the fruit jackfruit appears choice of vegetables reduce.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 25 Jun 24

Jackfruit is called kanthal in bengal. it is used both as a vegetable called enchor and also a fruit. The fruit comes letter. Now the vegetable part has ripened into fruit. So for the people the choice of vegetables has reduced....

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In bengal jackfruit seeds are boiled and eaten with rice.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 7 Jun 24

In bengal jackruit is used both as a fruit and a vegetable. As a fruit it is called kanthal. As a vegetable it is called enchore. the seeds of the jackfruit are boiled and eaten with rice and mustard oil. It tastes lovely.

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Today I had cabbage curry and pumpkin curry.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 7 Jun 24

Today I had cabbage curry and pumpkin curry with rice. The cabbage is called badhakopi in bengali. It is cooked with potatoes. In the pumpkin curry also called kumro in bengali there was brinjal and seeds of jackfruit

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A jackfruit vegetable can be cooked in mutton style.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 6 Mar 24

Jackfruits are eaten in India both as fruits and vegetables. We eat them mostly as vegetable form. It can be cooked with potatoes onions and garlic in the same way as goat meat is cooked. It tastes like that of mutton. It can be...

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Today I had tangra fish curry and jackfruit curry.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 22 Feb 24

Today I had tangra fish curry with rice. Tangra is a river fish and is tasty. I also had jackfruit curry. Jackfruit is eaten both as a vegetable and also as fruit. As a vegetable it is cooked with potatoes and other vegetables.

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In India every part of the vegetables are cooked as food.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 21 Dec 23

In India every part of the vegetables are cooked as food. On example is the radish. The radish vegetables are used in curry. The leaves of radish are used as a spinach or saag and cooked. Radish is also eaten as salad. The other...

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Enjoying jackfruit..

Arunima Singh @arunima25 (93194) • Bangalore, India 28 Apr 23

Good morning from this side of the planet. And maybe by the time I finish writing this post and posting it, it would be noon here. It's 11:45 AM. Yay!! Friday is here. I...

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Jackfruit Turon snack

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 25 Jun 22

Last week my sister -in -law gave us jackfruit. mom shared and the others cooked another dish. The rest of it , she made like a banana turon. But inside is jackfruit and not banana. it was delicious when eaten. I often mistake...

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I like Jackfruit. The Season has started. I bought it today!!!

Rashna Gandhi @Rashnag (30597) • Surat, India 30 May 21

Hi guys, Hope you all are doing good and enjoying your sunday. I am doing good too. I had gone to market today in morning to buy some stuff. I saw Jackfruit and couldn't resist myself from buying...

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I got Jackfruit!

Shayens Abran @sweetshayens (328) 23 Nov 20

Today I got jackfruit, my favorite fruit. We usually make it as a jam, but now I will eat it raw. It's in the same family with durian, has very sweet taste and fragrance. The texture is slimy and cruchy flesh too. Experts say it...

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jackfruit does lower blood sugar level. and i have eaten a lot without guilty feeling

hotsummer @hotsummer (13919) • Philippines 29 Jul 20

I learned that jackfruit doesn't raise blood sugar and actually good to lower sugar level significantly for long term. I bought half kilo including the skin. But still there's lot of fruit inside of half kilo. Its actually one...

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