Chakka Varattiyathu Recipe with step by step pictures. This is a unique recipe made with ripe jackfruits and cooked in jaggery.
Chakka Varattiyathu
This halwa is one of my all time favourite. But we don't 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 sent 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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Ingredients for Chakka Varattiyathu
- Jackfruit / Chakka - 6 cups
- Jaggery - 1.5 cups grated
- Ghee - 4 to 5 tbsp
- Water - 1.5 cup
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.
How to Make Chakka Varattiyathu
- 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 ½ 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 stirring, it will get dark in color 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.
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Chakka Varattiyathu Recipe | Chakka Varatti Recipe | Jackfruit Preserve
Ingredients
- 6 cups Jackfruit / Chakka
- 1.5 cups grated Jaggery
- 4 to 5 tbsp Ghee
- 1.5 cup Water
Instructions
- Take jaggery and ½ 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.
Chakka Varattiyathu Recipe Step by Step
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Sheba
Mouth watering..I love chakka varatiyathu
Rathna Rosy
Lovely... Pass this plate of halwa to me...
suresh
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.
suresh
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.
Rev. Godson
This ill try when I come to Kanyakumary next week.
Anonymous
Six cup of jackfruit means approximately how many jackfruit
Aarthi
@Anonymousaround 50 to 60 jackfruit
Javad
Godddd!!! This is heavenly. Your precise recipes makes cooking so easy. It turned out exactly like in your pictures. Thank you!!!! 😛
Sarika Suman
Looking so good...i wanna try the recipe
Anonymous
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.
Shamim Nilofar
Awesome recipe aarthi its already drooling so am not gonna eat jackfruit gonna prepare this yummy halwa
Shamim Nilofar
Awesome recipe aarthi its already drooling so am not gonna eat jackfruit gonna prepare this yummy halwa
Sabreena
Thankyou...the recipe was easy to follow and the dish is superb
Sue
Good recipe, thank you. I made a small quantity and it came out well!