First Time Cooking Jackfruit - Jackfruit Curry

After finding the tinned Jackfruit in Tesco I thought I'd give making a curry a go. I just my regular curry recipe but instead of chicken I just used Jackfruit. I also added butternut squash to bulk out the curry as the Jackfruit was strangely cut into triangles in a circle tin... so I didn't actually get much Jackfruit! 

This recipe uses just a tin of tomatoes blended with garam masala, turmeric, cumin and ground coriander so works really well as a vegan meal too!

The texture was definitely strange and seemed to look like a melon but tore apart like, well, chicken or pork.

 

After letting the curry simmer I tried to pull apart the Jackfruit, once it was more cooked it pulled apart quite easily compared to straight from the tin. It was really strange looking at it because if I hadn't of been told, I'd assume it was chicken.  

The curry turned out okay, I found the squash made the recipe too sweet and didn't enjoy it as much. Next time I'd skip the squash but not sure how I'd bulk it out. With the pulled parts of the Jackfruit you couldn't really tell it was fruit or not. I think this would work far better in tortillas or burgers rather than a curry but at least it was attempted.

Overall I'm not really sure how the Jackfruit went down, I don't think this recipe suited the fruit. Next time I'd perhaps try chickpeas and Jackfruit with a different type of curry sauce.