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2/ To eat mature jackfruit leaves, first air dry them in a dark place (so they don’t bleach). Mature jackfruit leaves have some inedible fiber. To remove this fiber:
-First cut out the main vein with a scissors
-Then cut leaf into pieces and stuff into a clean coffee grinder, shake the machine as you grind to get the finest powder
-Pour ground leaves into a fine sieve over a bowl, stir with a spoon to get all green bits out. Inedible fibers remain in the sieve.
#cooking #jackfruit #gardening

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2/ To eat mature jackfruit leaves, first air dry them in a dark place (so they don’t bleach). Mature jackfruit leaves have some inedible fiber. To remove this fiber:
-First cut out the main vein with a scissors
-Then cut leaf into pieces and stuff into a clean coffee grinder, shake the machine as you grind to get the finest powder
-Pour ground leaves into a fine sieve over a bowl, stir with a spoon to get all green bits out. Inedible fibers remain in the sieve.
#cooking #jackfruit #gardening

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A large dried jackfruit leaf cleanly cut in half with the thick center vein removed.  

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A close-up of a bundle of jackfruit leaves cut into small pieces and put into a coffee grinder. 

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A close up of a fine sieve with yellowish straw remaining after sifting out the green leaf powder. 

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3/ The jackfruit leaf powder is very gritty. I’ve tried various methods (soaking in water, salting, shio koji, salting and shoyu or vinegar). It still remained gritty.

The best softener is actually lactobacillus from live cultures in yogurt. I use vegan yogurt. Measure equal parts yogurt to leaf powder and after 40’-hr, the mix becomes melting green goop below.

You can use the goop to make noodles, baking dough, dumplings, etc. #cooking #growyourown #organic #jackfruit

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3/ The jackfruit leaf powder is very gritty. I’ve tried various methods (soaking in water, salting, shio koji, salting and shoyu or vinegar). It still remained gritty.

The best softener is actually lactobacillus from live cultures in yogurt. I use vegan yogurt. Measure equal parts yogurt to leaf powder and after 40’-hr, the mix becomes melting green goop below.

You can use the goop to make noodles, baking dough, dumplings, etc. #cooking #growyourown #organic #jackfruit

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After an hour of sitting in yogurt the jackfruit leaf powder softens and becomes a soft green batter. Pic is a close up of green gooey batter. 

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Pic is cross section of green muffin with black rack in background. It is green fluffy and moist. 

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On a wood block is a white and blue marbled dish with a very verdant green pancake. It is spread with those-made tonkatsu sauce and topped with purple strips of Okinawa spinach leaves, black strips of nori and well-browned maitake mushrooms. The green pancake is zigzagged by white coconut yogurt. 

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4/ Young leaves that are still soft and pliable don’t need to be powdered. They can be steamed, stewed, pickled, stir-fried, etc. They are a little too tough to enjoy raw but heat softens them up.

Below is sweet pickled young jackfruit leaves rolled into onigiri balls.

I don’t recommend using jackfruit leaf powder with onigiri bc it adds texture to the rice as if the rice is bruised and this is a culinary no-no. #cooking #organic #pickling #jackfruit #growyourown #jackfruit

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4/ Young leaves that are still soft and pliable don’t need to be powdered. They can be steamed, stewed, pickled, stir-fried, etc. They are a little too tough to enjoy raw but heat softens them up.

Below is sweet pickled young jackfruit leaves rolled into onigiri balls.

I don’t recommend using jackfruit leaf powder with onigiri bc it adds texture to the rice as if the rice is bruised and this is a culinary no-no. #cooking #organic #pickling #jackfruit #growyourown #jackfruit

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This is the same pic as before with the two onigiri balls rolled with sweet pickled young jackfruit leaves. 

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On the irregular round plate with a pie chart coloration of pink, navy, slate and lápiz, is a single onigiri dyed and speckled green with softened powdered jackfruit. It is sprinkled evenly with dark pink shiso flowers and sits on three red and green shiso leaves and a tiny wild golden physallis berry sits to the right next to the onigiri ball. 