TATSY NIBBLES RTE CHAKKA VARATTY 200G

Description

Chakka varatty is what a Kerala household does with a glut of ripe jackfruit, cooking the pulp down with jaggery and ghee for hours until it turns dark and thick and keeps for a year.

It is eaten by the spoon, spread on bread, stirred into a payasam, or used as the filling for ada and appam at Onam and Vishu. Making it takes a whole afternoon and a quantity of jackfruit that is difficult to come by in the Netherlands, which is exactly why the jar sells here.

Is this a flour? No, and we would rather say so than let the category imply otherwise. It is a cooked jackfruit preserve in a jar, ready to eat. The listing sits under Flour and we have flagged it for moving.

How long does it keep once opened? Several weeks in the fridge, because the sugar and the long cooking do the preserving. Use a dry spoon every time, since water in the jar is what starts mould.

A genuinely Kerala pantry flour from the same brand, Tasty Nibbles banana powder, is on the same shelf, and the aisle it currently sits in holds the flours and ravas. Vegetarian. Keep it somewhere cool and dark with the lid closed tight, and put it in the fridge once it has been opened. Order online at Panjab Supermarket for same-day delivery across Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Leidsche Rijn, Vleuten, Maarssen, Zeist, Bunnik, IJsselstein, Vianen, and Culemborg. Free delivery on orders over 49 euros.