- Hi friends!
Hi friends, it's Sam, and today I'm gonna make
my favorite Six-Ingredient Pulled Jackfruit.
You know what I think of when I think of barbecue?
Fruit, yeah. I know, bizarre.
Now if you are new to jackfruit,
jackfruit is actually a fruit.
It's this enormous fruit that grows on trees,
it's got this kinda weird skin
and has these little yellow pod things.
It's a pretty cool fruit.
And when you eat it ripe,
it's actually quite sweet and delicious,
but when you eat it young and green,
it is savory and starchy, so it's really cool
'cause you got a lot of play there.
Now one of the coolest things about jackfruit,
is that when you cook it as a young, green jackfruit,
it kind of like pulls apart
and has these little fibery strands,
and it looks and tastes just like pulled pork.
Yeah, I know, the pigs are pretty happy about that one.
So obviously it's a lot healthier because it's a fruit,
but it's also super easy to prepare, super delicious.
I have brought this to barbecues before
and fed it to meat eaters and carnivores
and vegetarians and vegans and everyone loves it.
There's never a scrap left,
and everyone thinks it's meat, which is kind of funny.
It's one of those fun recipes I love pulling out of my hat
and serving to the most anti-vegan people,
'cause it always blows people's minds.
Da-licious.
Now that you guys actually voted
for this recipe on Instagram,
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which was super fun,
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Oo, fun.
All right, so let's get makin'
my Six-Ingredient Pulled Jackfruit.
Now the first thing
you're gonna need for this recipe is jackfruit.
I know, shocking, you're shocked.
(laughs)
So when you are looking for jackfruit,
you wanna make sure to get
the young, green jackfruit in brine or in water.
Do not get the ripe jackfruit in syrup.
It's a totally different thing, it won't work,
it'll be gross and sweet and not good at all,
and it won't get this cool, stringy texture.
I'm lucky enough that my local grocery store
carries this in the Asian section, but if not,
you can try out Asian or Indian grocery stores.
It'll be there, or I'll pop a link down below
where you can order it off of Amazon.
Open up and drain 'em and rise them a bit.
This is what it looks like, I, oh, it's dripping.
I know it's kind of bizarro looking,
but that's what it is, what can I tell you?
You can see there's some pieces
that are already pulling apart like pulled pork.
Oo, this is an ugly piece.
The jackfruit has this kind of core area,
and then there's this fibrous top,
so what you wanna do is cut up the core area,
and keep as much of the fibery bit at the top.
So slice that along the core,
it's hard to hold a camera and chop at the same time.
And this way you'll get the best texture possible.
So my jackfruit is all chopped up.
Let's hop over to the stove now
and start cookin' up this jackfruit.
All right, let's turn this sucker on.
Medium-high heat, and add a tablespoon of olive oil.
Beautiful.
And if you know me, the first thing we're gonna do
is saute some garlic and onions,
'cause what else do you do?
So when the oil is hot, add your sliced onions and garlic.
And when they have started to brown, add in the jackfruit.
Yeah.
Get in there.
Now add in a quarter cup of vegetable broth or water.
And cover it up.
Vegetable broth obviously has a little bit more flavor,
so that'll be better, but honestly it's only a quarter cup
so water will be just fine.
So now that it's covered, just let it cook for 8-10 minutes,
until the jackfruit has softened.
All right.
Oo, steamy, I love it.
So after you cook it, it'll look something like this.
I know it does not look very exciting yet.
Trust me on this.
So you just wanna make sure it's nice and tender now.
And now, this is the trick.
Take a potato masher, and mash this up.
(makes creaking noises)
Is that what they do in Psycho?
Never actually seen that movie so,
just referencing pop culture.
You just lightly mash it,
it's gonna break apart all of those little pieces
and become pulled and stranded.
Stranded? It's not gonna be stranded.
Stranded on a desert island?
- Hello?
- And it's gonna get that pull, the amazing texture.
Yeah, gorgeous.
If you're finding that this is hard to do,
just put the lid back on
and cook it for a couple of more minutes.
It just means it's not tender enough yet.
Isn't that crazy? It looks so cool.
It really looks kinda meaty and weird.
So at this point, kinda bland still,
so we need to take it to the next level.
Are you ready for the next level?
Can you handle the next level?
Let's begin, let's start the next level.
So grab yourself a large baking sheet
and let's pop all of this jackfruit on the baking sheet.
Not wasting any of this precious goodness.
Spread that out.
And then take some barbecue sauce and pour it all over.
♪ Da-licious ♪
And now just mix it up a little.
Spread that barbecue sauce in there.
Saucy.
Da-lish.
And now just pop it in the oven to bake.
So it's really important to put it in the oven to bake
because this is going to dry it out a bit.
It's gonna cook that barbecue sauce in,
it's gonna get sticky and delicious,
and it's really gonna be what takes it from kind of squidgy,
to amazing, delicious, gorgeous texture.
Yes, so do it, bake it, delicious.
I made this barbecue sauce.
It's the recipe from my cookbook, My Favorite BBQ Sauce,
but you can definitely buy a store-bought barbecue sauce
if you prefer.
Just check the ingredients,
'cause some barbecue sauces contain honey or fish.
I know, weird.
So I pulled my jackfruit out of the oven.
I love when I cook it
until some of the little bits get even a little bit burnt.
I find it really makes the texture pretty cool,
and then just to kinda re-moisten it up again,
I add another little bit of barbecue sauce and stir that in.
And now it's all done and ready to serve.
I'm gonna serve this up as a sandwich,
but really you can do whatever you want
with this pulled jackfruit.
You can throw it in a burrito, on a taco,
other places that you might wanna put it too.
(laughs) So yummy.
Piling up a generous serving of this jackfruit,
and then I made just a quick little coleslaw
I'm gonna pop on top.
You definitely don't have to do that if you don't want to.
Pickles, however you wanna serve this up,
is the way you should serve it up.
Yeah, did you see that?
Did you see how good that looked?
Isn't that crazy?
Can I just remind you that this is a fruit?
So cool.
This is gonna be messy.
Are you ready?
Let's take a bite.
Hair out of the way.
This is serious stuff.
(mumbles)
Mm!
That is so good!
Goin' in for more.
Super, super, duper, delish.
If you are someone who loves barbecue,
I highly recommend you try this recipe.
So yummy, so satisfying, I love it, so exciting.
Hi Chickpea, hi-five, up high.
Yeah, good girl, you're so good.
If you give this recipe a try,
let me know how it turns out in the comments below.
I hope you love it as much as I do.
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for another fuss-free vegan video next Wednesday.
I'll see you next time.
Bon Appetegan!
Oh, hello there.
(laughs)
Oo, falling over.
Jackfruit, jackfruit, jackfruit, jackfruit!
Um, what am I gonna do, what am I gonna say?
La la la la la.
Hi.
(inhales deeply) Catching my breath.
(laughs)