Breadfruit curry

By: Peter Kuruvita
From: My Feast
Serves: 6
Photographer: Chris Chen

When I lived in Vatulele in Fiji there were breadfruit trees all over my neighbourhood. I used to watch the breadfruits mature on the trees, waiting for when they were perfectly ripe, but the night before I was ready to pick them, they would disappear. Obviously I was not the only one watching the fruit ripen. After a few months of constantly missing out, I decided to write my name on a ripening breadfruit that I had my eye on. It worked. When the day came for the fruit to be picked, the locals came and told me it was ready. Unfortunately, breadfruit is difficult to find in most Western countries. It is available frozen or tinned. The tinned version works well in this curry, which makes the most of the fruit’s creamy texture and flavour.

Ingredients

Quantity	Ingredient
1 teaspoon	ground coriander
1 teaspoon	ground cumin
1 teaspoon	vegetable curry powder
1	breadfruit, peeled and cut into 3 cm pieces
100g	onion, finely chopped
	garlic, chopped
2	small green chillies, halved lengthways
1 sprig	curry leaves, leaves picked
3cm	cinnamon stick
4cm	pandan leaf, roughly torn
1/2 teaspoon	ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon	ground black pepper
1 teaspoon	brown mustard seeds, finely ground
	salt, to taste
500ml	coconut milk
100ml	coconut cream
pinch	dark roasted curry powder

Tempering

Quantity	Ingredient
100ml	vegetable oil
1 teaspoon	brown mustard seeds
1 sprig	curry leaves, leaves picked
1/2	red onion, finely chopped

Method

Place the coriander, cumin and vegetable curry powder in a small heavy-based frying pan over low heat and roast until dark brown.
Place the toasted spices and the remaining ingredients, except the coconut cream and dark toasted curry powder, in a heavy-based saucepan over medium heat and simmer for 12 minutes or until the breadfruit is tender.
To make the tempering, heat the oil in a small frying pan over medium–high heat, add the mustard seeds and curry leaves and cook until the mustards seeds pop. Add the onion and cook until so and translucent.
Add the tempered mix to the breadfruit mixture and stir to combine.
While stirring constantly, add the coconut cream and cook for 4 minutes or until just below boiling point. Do not boil. The sauce should be thick and the breadfruit so and tender. Season with salt.
To serve, transfer to a serving dish and sprinkle with the dark toasted curry powder — do not stir it in.

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