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Chakka Varattiyathu Recipe / Jackfruit Halwa Recipe

April 15, 2015 By Aarthi 14 Comments

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This halwa is one of my all time favourite. But we dont make this often, because we dont have jackfruit tree in our home. But my aunt has that in her house, so whenever there is a ripe fruit in that tree, she sents half of that large fruit to our home. Most of the time we eat it as it is, if the fruits are too sweet. But sometimes the fruit wont be that sweet, so it need some help and it would be transformed into this or payasam.

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This sweet is pretty easy to make, each people have their own way of making it. My aunt used to chop the fruit finely and cook them in jaggery syrup and make this. But i find that very time consuming, because you have to spend quite a long time separating the fruits from the rough jack fruit. So this is how i do it. It is easy and and delicious.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 1 hour
Makes : 2 cups


Ingredients:

Jackfruit / Chakka – 6 cups
Jaggery – 1.5 cups grated
Ghee – 4 to 5 tblspn
Water – 1.5 cup

Method:

Take jackfruit and 1 cup of water in a pressure cooker. Cover and pressure cook for 3 whistle, simmer the flame for 10 mins. Turn off the heat.

Now transfer this mix to a kadai.

Take jaggery and 1/2 cup of water in a sauce pan, heat so the jaggery is melted. Strain this and add to the jackfruit mix.

Now heat this on high heat and let the mixture gets thick.

Keep cooking them and keep stiring, it will get dark in colour and very thick.

Add ghee at this point and keep mixing them,

At a stage it will leave the sides of the kadai like a halwa.

Turn off the heat and let it cool.

Serve.


Notes:

1)This will keep good for more than a month in fridge.


Pictorial:
Separate the fruist from the jackfruit
Take them in a pressure cooker
Add a cup of water
cover and pressure cook
now the fruits are completely cooked
take them in a kadai
Now take some jaggery in a sauce pan
Add water to it
Heat so the jaggery is melted
strain them
this is the jaggery syrup
Pour it in
Mix well
Keep cooking them
it will start to get thick
Now the excess water has evaporated
You have to keep cooking it for 15 mins or so, till it reaches this consistency..Keep stiring and mashing them
Add in ghee at this point
keep cooking them..I added around 4 tblspn of ghee
At a point the mixture will leave the sides of the pan..this is the right consistency
Serve
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Filed Under: Diwali, Festival, Halwa, Indian Sweet, Kerala, Onam, Onam Recipes, Recent Recipes, Sweet, Tamil New Year Recipes

About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Sheba

    April 16, 2015 at 8:12 am

    Mouth watering..I love chakka varatiyathu

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  2. Rathna Rosy

    April 20, 2015 at 1:52 pm

    Lovely… Pass this plate of halwa to me…

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  3. suresh

    April 26, 2015 at 12:16 pm

    We had a jackfruit that was not very ripe but we had to cut it as it was getting spoilt. Bit of googling got me to your site. I followed your instructions and made this halwa. It does not have the same colour as yours but it is extremely tasty. Actually, I am not sure how this is supposed to taste because we never had it before. In any case, scored lots of brownie points from wife☺. Thanks a lot for the recipe. I will come back to look for more.

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  4. suresh

    April 26, 2015 at 12:16 pm

    We had a jackfruit that was not very ripe but we had to cut it as it was getting spoilt. Bit of googling got me to your site. I followed your instructions and made this halwa. It does not have the same colour as yours but it is extremely tasty. Actually, I am not sure how this is supposed to taste because we never had it before. In any case, scored lots of brownie points from wife☺. Thanks a lot for the recipe. I will come back to look for more.

    Reply
  5. Rev. Godson

    May 4, 2015 at 6:59 pm

    This ill try when I come to Kanyakumary next week.

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  6. Anonymous

    May 5, 2015 at 1:10 am

    Six cup of jackfruit means approximately how many jackfruit

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  7. Aarthi

    May 6, 2015 at 11:41 am

    @Anonymousaround 50 to 60 jackfruit

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  8. Javad

    May 27, 2016 at 3:38 am

    Godddd!!! This is heavenly. Your precise recipes makes cooking so easy. It turned out exactly like in your pictures. Thank you!!!! 😛

    Reply
  9. Sarika Suman

    June 3, 2016 at 2:18 pm

    Looking so good…i wanna try the recipe

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  10. Anonymous

    August 13, 2016 at 9:46 am

    Thank you for sharing the recipe. Since we have jackfruit in abundance, I tried the recipe today. The color turned out exactly like in the pics. It was lovely taste. A
    recipe to keep and share.

    Reply
  11. Shamim Nilofar

    October 30, 2016 at 7:12 am

    Awesome recipe aarthi its already drooling so am not gonna eat jackfruit gonna prepare this yummy halwa

    Reply
  12. Shamim Nilofar

    October 30, 2016 at 7:13 am

    Awesome recipe aarthi its already drooling so am not gonna eat jackfruit gonna prepare this yummy halwa

    Reply
  13. Sabreena

    July 28, 2018 at 2:29 pm

    Thankyou…the recipe was easy to follow and the dish is superb

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  14. Sue

    August 7, 2020 at 1:52 pm

    Good recipe, thank you. I made a small quantity and it came out well!

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