I am very excited about this post! A few months ago I saw on Chow Vegan bbq pulled jackfruit, a vegan version of bbq pulled pork! I thought it looked wonderful and I have been dying to try it. All I needed was to get hold of some young jackfruit, which was very easy, I got it from Salamat [Asian Supermarkert] for very cheap. But since it is Crhistmas and everything bbq jackfruit seemed like a summery dish. So I decided to cook it in red wine gravy! The results?? A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. It came out like a very tender, velvety, moist meat, that almost melts in your mouth yet it doesn’t taste like meat of course-It is a fruit after all! It is very good served with with rice and I think it is an appropriate new years eve dish! I hope some of you decide to make this on a special dinner because I promise your non-vegetarian friends will be very impressed! It is meat free, soy free, gluten free, wheat free and fat free [besides the gravy]! It is actually just a fruit that has a meaty texture, and in India they use it in savory dishes for its texture [so we are not the first that thought of this!]. Just make sure you buy the young green jackfruit in brine, not the yellow ripe one in syrup!
Ingredients
-2 cans young green jackfruit in brine/2 κονσέρβες άγουρο πράσινο jackfruit σε νερό
-1 onion/ 1 κρεμμύδι
-2 tbsp olive oil/ 2 κ.σ. ελαιόλαδο
-2 cloves garlic/ 2 σκελίδες σκόρδο
-1/2 cup red wine/ 1/2 κούπα κόκκινο κρασί
-1/3 cup soy sauce/ 1/3 κούπας σάλτσα σόγιας
-1 tbsp margarine/ 1 κ.σ. μαργαρίνη
-1 low-salt vegetable stock cube/ 1 κύβο ζωμό λαχανικών με χαμηλή περιεκτηκότητα αλατιού
-1 tbsp dark brown sugar/ 1 κ.σ. σκούρη μαύρη ζάχαρη
-1 cup water/ 1 κούπα νερό
-1 tbsp corn flour/ 1 κ.σ. κορν φλουρ
This is how the uncooked jackfruit looks! Cool huh?
First drain jackfruit from brine and wash with water. Chop onion and in a big pot saute the onion with olive oil. Add the jackfruit and crushed garlic and saute more on high heat for 2-3 minutes. Add the red wine to deglaze, then add soy sauce, dark brown sugar, margarine and veggie stock cube. Stir well and add 1 cup of water and let boil for 5 minutes. Cover the pot and reduce heat on medium and let it simmer until the jackfruit is tender and falls apart. That will take around 40 minutes. Dissolve cornflour with some water and add it to the pot. Bring to boil again, stirring continuously and remove from heat, stirring until the gravy thickens. This makes 4 servings, and needs to sit for a few hours to develop the taste so you can even make it the night before your big dinner! Enjoy!
*Note: I suggest you use the low-salt stock cube because there is a good amount of soy sauce in the gravy that makes it very salty, or you can use low-sodium soy sauce and add salt to taste.
Πρώτα στραγγίζουμε και ξεπλένουμε με νερό το jackfruit. Ψιλοκόβουμε το κρεμμυδάκι και σε μια μεγάλη κατσαρόλα το σωτάρουμε στο ελαιόλαδο για 2 λεπτά. Προσθέτουμε το jackfruit και το σκόρδο τριμμένο και σωτάρουμε σε υψηλή φωτιά για άλλα 2-3 λεπτά. Ρίχνουμε το κρασί για να ξεγλασσάρουμε, προσθέτουμε τη σάλτσα σόγιας, τη μαύρη ζάχαρη, τον κύβο λαχανικών, και τη μαργαρίνη και ανακατεύουμε. Προσθέτουμε και μια κούπα νερό, αφήνουμε να βράσει για 5 λεπτά και μετά χαμηλώνουμε σε μεσαία φωτιά, κλείνουμε το καπάκι της κατσαρόλας και αφήνουμε να σιγοψηθεί μέχρι να μαλακώσει τελείως, για περίπου 40 λεπτά. Θα είναι τόσο μαλακό που θα διαλύεται με ένα πιρούνι. Τότε διαλύουμε το κορν φλουρ σε λίγο νερό, το προσθέτουμε στην κατσαρόλα, το βάζουμε να πάρει μια βράση ανακατεύοντας συνεχώς και απομακρύνουμε από τη φωτιά συνεχίζοντας το ανακάτεμα μέχρι να πήξει λίγο η σάλτσα. Η συνταγή κάνει 4 μερίδες, και σερβίρετε με ρύζι της επιλογής σας ή πατάτες φούρνου. Αφού το ετοιμάσουμε είναι καλύτερα να το αφήσουμε κανένα 3ωρο να μαριναριστεί μέσα στη σάλτσα του. Ακόμη καλύτερα μπορείτε να το ετοιμάσετε την ημέρα πριν το γιορτινό σας τραπέζι! Καλή όρεξη!
*Σημείωση: Χρησιμοποιήστε κύβο λαχανικών με χαμηλή περιεκτηκότητα σε αλάτι γιατί η σάλτσα σόγιας εχει ήδη αρκετό αλάτι, διαφορετικά βάλτε σάλτσα σόγιας με χαμηλή περιεκτικότητα σε αλάτι.
I just can’t get over how much that looks like meat! I’ve never tasted jackfruit, but this is so intriguing I may have to go seek out some of the canned variety. What a great recipe!
I know it is amazing!I cant get over it either, seriously. And it is just a fruit!
I haven’t ever seen a vegetarian ingredient look so much like meat! You have inspired me to try making savory jackfruit when I head off to Singapore soon as I’m sure it is abundant there. Maybe my Mom will finally realize that vegetarianism doesn’t mean eating solely raw celery
Wow that looks amazing. I’ve never tried jackfruit either but I am so going to. Well as soon a I can find some.
This looks really delicious! I will have to give it a try.
i saw remember seeing this recipe on vegan dad, i think, and always wanted to make it!!! i bought a can of jackfruit and syrup and realized that it wasn’t the right kind. i ended up dehydrating them and they were so gross!! haha
i need to find the green ones because i just have to make this. i miss the taste of pulled pork a lot!
I’m always surprised by the lengths that vegetarians/vegans will go to faithfully reproduce “mock” meat dishes. They put down others for eating meat (meat is murder, save the sea kittens, etc.) yet they live in a meat eating world and they still want to fit in. To me, this dish says “Hey everybody! I’m not really a freak! Look at the fake meat dishes I can make! You’ll love it, I swear!”. As a meat-eater, I would NOT want to be subjected to your fake meat dish. If I’m a guest in your home, I’d be way more impressed if you stepped out of your vegan world for a moment and said, “I know you’re an omnivore, so I made you this delightful coq au vin! I will sit here and eat my fake meat while you enjoy some real meat”.
Isn’t that what YOU expect when you visit a friend? You expect them to come up with some creative way to feed you because of your restrictive diet?
Well, MeatLover with the fake e-mail, I am glad you mentioned this because I want to clear things up for you and any-who that this may concern. I love to cook and I think it is fun to make alternatives to meat as I like to refer to them, because there is nothing ‘fake’ about them and they don’t really taste like meat either, they just taste good. Now about this specific dish, it is not even lengthy, complicated or processed at all. It is just a cooked fruit, that happens to resemble the texture of meat without me doing anything on it, I swear! In India they have been using it [young jackfruit]for many years in savory dishes because of its texture. Plus, I probably need 1/3 of the time you need to make a similar meat dish. It’s is fun, delicious and cheap, without animal products in it, so why the hell wouldn’t anyone eat it? However there are some people that become vegetarians/vegans and love meat as a food, but don’t like the idea of eating dead carcasses that clog their arteries. And to be honest, I would not cook meat to feed my guests, because I would have to buy it which means financially support the meat industry. And when I am a guest at someone’s house I don’t expect them to have any ‘special’ dish for my restricted diet. I just eat whatever, like a salad. I am not preachy about veganism nor I care about what other people choose to eat.
But obviously from what you wrote to me you think not eating meat makes you a freak, you judged me because of what I choose to eat, so I don’t know why I bother replying to you. Maybe it is your attitude pissing me off.
Wow, yours came out great! It looks delicious! and nicely plated too!
god meatlover, you’re such an idiot!
Shut up, MeatLover, you complete and utter moron! If you are offended by vegetarianism so damn much WTF are you even doing at vedgie-wedgie.com? We like being vegetarians! Mind your own f**king business! Retard!
I stopped eating animals in 1961 and I just ate whatever everybody else was eating but left the meat out. That was not a very satisfying way to eat but I love animals and did not want to cause pain and suffering. Now in the 21st Century there are so many wonderful vegan options! Vegans are re-inventing the way the world will eat in the future. About vegan meats. I consider them to be the *real* deal. Corpse food is fake food. I think the vegan meats were divinely inspired. Buddhist monks invented them over a thousand years ago. They add variety to meals and can help meat eaters go vegan. Gotta get some Jackfruit now! Thanks for the recipe!
This looks soo good. I’ve seen a raw version of pulled pork using trumpet mushrooms, but they have been even harder to come by than young jackfruit so I haven’t gotten around to trying it yet. I am making this version right now (at the simmering stage!) and let me say it smells amazing!!!!
My partner is an omnivore (though looking to cut out some animals for environmental reasons) and LOVES pulled pork sandwiches so hopefully this will be an encouraging replacement!!!
I have just gone vegan for health reasons. See Dr Neal Barnard’s Program for reversing Diabetes. Eating vegan has really helped and I do not seem to miss meat because I am reaping huge health benefits.
That being said, anything that resembles barbecue deserves to be given a chance. I will post again after I make it.