Breadfruit rava fry is a traditional Goan breadfruit recipe, in which breadfruit is sliced, marinated with spice powders, coated with rava and shallow fried. This breadfruit fry is served as a side dish in the Goan cuisine. Breadfruit also known as neerpanas or neerphanas is available during the summer season. Konkanis in Karnataka call this recipe as jeev kadgi phodi or jeevkadgi podi.

Let us see the benefits of breadfruit:

There are plenty of health benefits of breadfruit. It is packed with antioxidants and nutrients and is high in carbohydrates and rich in vitamins and minerals. Breadfruit helps lower cholesterol, fights infection, and promotes healthy hair and youthful skin. It is also a diabetic friendly food as it contains good amount of fibre.

What are the ingredients used to make breadfruit shallow fry or neerpanas rava fry?

Breadfruit: I have used half medium sized breadfruit in this recipe. Use fresh, green, unripe breadfruit to make this Konkani style jeev kadgi podi recipe.
Flour: Rava or semolina is used for coating the spiced breadfruit slices before frying them.
Spices: Spice powders like red chili powder and turmeric powder are used in marinating the breadfruit slices and are also added to rava while coating the slices before frying them.
Oil: Any type of cooking oil can be used in shallow frying the breadfruit slices.

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How to make delicious Goan style breadfruit rava fry:

Wash the breadfruit and cut into halves. Then cut the halves into quarters. Using a peeler or knife, peel the breadfruit and remove the central core. Then cut the breadfruit into slices.
Apply chili powder, turmeric powder and salt to the breadfruit slices and keep aside for 5-10 minutes. (refer to “for the coating” section in ingredients for quantity).
In a small plate, mix rava, turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt and keep aside. (refer to “for the frying” section in ingredients for quantity).
Coat the sliced breadfruit in rava.
Heat a frying pan and spread 1 tablespoon oil on it.
Arrange the rava coated slices on the frying pan one by one.
Spread 1-2 tablespoon oil on top of the rava coated breadfruit. Cover and cook.
In between, sprinkle 1 teaspoon water by hand over the breadfruit slices, cover and cook to speed up cooking.
After 10 minutes, flip to the other side and fry for 10 more minutes.
Check whether the breadfruit is cooked by poking in the centre with a knife or spoon.
If it is soft and it gets cut easily then it’s done.

Here are some uses of breadfruit:

Breadfruit seeds and fruits are used in cooking, but apart from cooking it is having other benefits. The roots of breadfruit tree along with leaves and latex is used to make medicine.

How to eat a breadfruit?

Eat breadfruit after it is cooked. You can boil, roast or grill it. Discard the outer green covering and middle core, chop the breadfruit into small pieces and use it to make delicious stir fries like breadfruit subzi , curries, pulao or make breadfruit shallow fry.

Breadfruit vs jackfruit

Some people always confuse between breadfruit and jackfruit. Though both look similar in appearance, they are 2 completely different fruits. Let us see some differences between the two. Breadfruit and jackfruit are completely different in appearance from inside.

Breadfruit interior is starchy cream to yellow texture similar to potato and cannot be eaten raw. Jackfruit on the other hand has yellow bulbs which can be eaten raw. Also, jackfruit has spikes on its outer skin whereas breadfruit may or may not have spikes. Another difference is breadfruit is a vegetable, but jackfruit is a fruit. Read more about the differences here – https://highkitcheniq.com/jackfruit-vs-breadfruit/

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Fried Breadfruit | Breadfruit Rava Fry | Jeevkadgi Phodi

What are the ingredients used to make breadfruit shallow fry or neerpanas rava fry?

How to make delicious Goan style breadfruit rava fry:

Here are some uses of breadfruit:

Breadfruit vs jackfruit