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Easy Spicy Garlic Chipotle Jackfruit Tacos. Shredded Jackfruit tacos with garlic chipotle sauce. Top w/ avocado, salsa, vegan sour cream. Vegan Gluten-free Soy-free Recipe
Jackfruit is the thing these days and starting to appear in stores that we visit. I got a bunch of cans from the Indian store this past weekend. When I told Mom, she said, you guys will never learn the the intricacies of how to peel a real Jackfruit (kathal in hindi) from scratch, remove the seeds and so on, everything you get is always packaged. I know Mom, I try to reduce all the packaging, but then I have only so much energy to spend in the kitchen, so the packaged stuff makes it convenient some days. Also, Jackfruit can become a sticky mess!
Use other shreddable things like squash, soy curls, meat subs, or use beans of choice. See this Easy Jackfruit Curry Post for availability details.
Boil the jackfruit, then cook in spicy garlicky chipotle sauce until it picks up the flavors. Serve in tacos or sandwiches, dressed with avocado or guacamole and hot sauce.
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Steps:
Boil the jackfruit for 10 minutes. Shred and keep aside. Make the chipotle garlic black pepper sauce. When the sauce smells roasted, add shredded jackfruit, salt and water. Cook until the sauce reduces.
Serve in warm tortillas with avocado, lettuce, salsa and hot sauce.
Spicy Garlic Chipotle Jackfruit Tacos
Ingredients
For the Spicy Jackfruit:
- 1 20 oz can of young green Jackfruit in brine, not ripe jackfruit in sugar syrup
- 1 small onion, thinly sliced or chopped
- 1 or 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
- 1 tbsp adobo sauce, use less or more to heat preference
- 8 cloves of garlic
- 2 Tbsp ketchup
- 1/2 tsp ancho chili powder
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 1/2 tsp oregano
- 1 1/4 cup water, divided
- salt to taste
To serve
- Soft Tacos or tortillas, vegan
- Avocado or guacamole
- shredded lettuce
- vegan sour cream or salsa
Instructions
- Drain the Jackfruit. Add to a saucepan with 3 cups of water, bring to a boil over medium heat and boil for 10 to 11 minutes. Drain, shred with a fork and keep aside. *You can skip this step and simmer the jackfruit in the sauce longer, Shred the jackfruit pieces midway during simmering when softened at Step 6.
- Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add onions and a pinch of salt and cook until translucent. Stir occasionally. About 4 minutes.
- Blend chipotle peppers, adobo sauce, garlic cloves, ketchup, ancho chili, black pepper, cumin, coriander, oregano, a with 1/4 cup of water until smooth.
- Add the blended sauce to the onions and cook until the sauce thickens and smells roasted. Stir occasionally. About 6 to 8 minutes.
- Add the shredded jackfruit, 1 cup water and salt. Mix well. cover and cook for 10 minutes.
- Stir, reduce heat to medium,low and continue to cook until the sauce reduces and the jackfruit picks up the sauce flavor. 15 minutes or more. Taste and adjust salt, heat and sweet.
- Prep the toppings.
- Heat tortillas on a skillet or grill, add jackfruit. add lettuce or sprouts or greens of choice. Add avocado or guacamole, salsa or vegan sour cream and serve,
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Yum, made it tonight, friend put the pic up on instagram. Forgot to double up the recipe for 4 people. Gotta make it again I guess. Put the leftover chipotle in adobo sauce in the freezer for the next time. Didn’t have ancho chili powder, put cayenne instead, would put less next time for a lil less heat. Weird how the jackfruit looks so much like meat. Friend says it looks like pulled pork.
Thanks for another great recipe, Richa! Can’t wait to make the jackfruit curry.
Thats awesome! yes ancho isnt as spicy and adds more flavor, while cayenne is hot!
I tried making this but found it way too spicy. What size of a chipotle pepper did you use? I’m thinking maybe mine was too big. Should I up the ketchup? Any ideas?
some peppers end up spicier than the usual. I used 2 average 2 to 2.5 inch peppers. you can add more jackfruit and cook, or add a chopped potato and water and let it sit overnight. you can also cook it with the potato for a bit. the potato should absorb some heat. remove the potato to use elsewhere. serve with cooling toppings like vegan sour cream.
Hi! I love your blog and your recipies.
I was glad surprised about the jackfruit because i learned about it with the indonisian cuisine . I liked it very much!
So i bought a can of it but it is with sugar. Can i wash it to get the sugar off before coocking it?
Love from The Netherlands! Elena
Hi Elena, that is ripe jackfruit. Ripe jackfruit is sweet like mango and is canned in sugar syrup. Use young green jackfruit packed in brine for savory recipes like this.
You can buy it in cans in syrup (for a sweet treat) or in brine (for something more savory).
All these jackfruit recipes are making me want to try jackfruit more and more! Thanks for all the awesome recipes (and photos)!
i’ve been wanting to make jackfruit for about a year! these look so good. love chipotle in anything though haha. i’ve never heard of my mom making jackfruit though, so ill have to ask if she or her mom ever made it (shes from Delhi )
my mom used to make a kathal subzi. maybe there is a different name she used?