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jackfruit

🥗Healthier: young green jackfruit

💰Cheaper: canned jackfruit

Canned jackfruit is often more accessible and budget-friendly.

soy sauce

🥗Healthier: tamari

💰Cheaper: coconut aminos

Tamari is gluten-free and coconut aminos is lower in sodium.

Introduce the jackfruit and explain its uses as both a raw vegetable and ripe fruit.

Mention the weight of jackfruit, stating it can be over 100 pounds.

Describe the importance of cutting the jackfruit correctly, starting with cutting the stem.

Apply vegetable oil to the knife to prevent stickiness from the jackfruit's resin.

Make the first cut deeper, about three-fourths of the blade into the jackfruit.

Cut the jackfruit lengthwise or use a spiral method to cut into the fruit.

Check the ripeness of the jackfruit by making a small incision to see the meat inside.

Continue cutting spirally downwards to remove the fruit from the exterior.

Pull out the jackfruit flesh, noting that it contains seeds that can be boiled or roasted later.

Collect the discarded parts of the jackfruit as you go along.

Snip off any remaining attachments to the stem to fully extract the fruit.

Explain the two methods of cutting jackfruit: spiral and lengthwise, and suggest taking pictures for food styling.

Encourage teamwork in cutting the jackfruit to make the process easier.

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