Make classic fanas/kathal sabji recipe at home, as delicious as restaurent dishes. These fanas recipe is more flavourful and easy to make with delicious gravy.
- Fanas sabji, a popular dish in Indian cuisine, is made from jackfruit (known as “fanas” in marathi & gujarati).
The raw, green jackfruit is cooked with spices like turmeric, cumin, and chili powder, along with onions, tomatoes, and garlic. It’s often finished with cilantro for a flavorful, hearty vegetable curry.
I’m sure this recipe going to be family favourite. Fanas recipe is perfect option if you are planning to dinner recipe.
| ๐ฒ Cuisine | Indian |
| ๐ฐ๏ธ Preparation time | 10 M |
| ๐ฐ๏ธ Cooking time | 25 M |
| โฐ Total time | 35 M |
| ๐ฅ Serving | 4 |
| ๐ฑ Cource | Dinner |
| Equipment used | Pan, Cooker |
How to make fanas sabji
Serving person: 4 from using 500 gm Fanas/Kathal
Make flavourful water with adding salt, haldi powder
๐ Add right amount of water to cooker with adding 1.5 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon haldi powder and stir well.
Add ginger, black pepper & kathal/fanas
Next add the following ingredients:
๐ 1/2 Inch ginger
๐ 1 teaspoon black pepper
๐ 500 gm kathal
Mix well all ingredients properly.
Boil it at high flame (Only 1 whistle)
๐ Simply cook with high flame (Only 1 whistle)
๐ Cook fanas until it reach at 60%.
Separate boiled kathal/fanas & flavourful water
๐ Take out 60% boiled fanas.
๐ Separate the water & fanas.
๐ Remember, remain water will use later.
๐ Now, the time to onion tomato curry making.
Saute kathal/fanas in mustard oil
๐ Add 1/2 cup mustard oil in cooker and saute the kathal.
๐ Fry fanas until it’s get slightly brown colour. (Only for 2-3 minutes, Not too much)
Shake until kathal/fanas gets brown colour and take out
๐ After fry it, take it out.
Add all essential masala
๐ In remaining oil, add essential masala that needed for making onion tomato curry, which are following:
๐ 1 Tej patta
๐ 1 teaspoon jeera
๐ 4 choti elaichi
๐ 1 badi elaichi
๐ 9-10 kali mirch
๐ 4-5 Laung
๐ Dal chini
Saute the onions
๐ Add cutting onions
๐ Saute it for 2-3 minutes until colour gets brown.
Add ingredients: Ginger, Dhaniya stems, Sukhi mirch, Green mirch cutting, Haldi powder, Mirch powder
Then, add the following ingredients:
๐ 1 Inch ginger
๐ Coriander stems
๐ 3 Dried chillies
๐ 3 Green chillies
๐ 1 teaspoon Red chilli powder
๐ 1/2 teaspoon Haldi powder
Stir it and mix well.
Add tomato & essential masala (Salt, dhaniya powder, garam masala)
Next add the following ingredients:
๐ 2 Tomato cutting
๐ 1 teaspoon Salt
๐ 1 teaspoon Dhaniya powder
๐ 1 teaspoon Garam masala/Meat masala
Make a curry
๐ For making a curry, add fanas water which separated before, and boil it on high flame. ( 2-3 whistle)
Add fried kathal/fanas & simple water and boil again with low flame
๐ Now, the time to add 60% boiled fanas and 1 cup water. Boil it at law flame. (Only 1 whistle)
Now, Fanas/Kathal sabji is ready to serve.
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Recipe video
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Step by step process
- Make flavourful water with boiling 500 gm kathal/fanas in 1.5 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon haldi powder, 1/2 Inch ginger, 1 teaspoon black pepper.
- Boil it at high flame (Only 1 whistle).
- Take out & separate boiled kathal/fanas & flavourful water.
- Fry kathal/fanas in 1/2 cup mustard oil. Take out after kathal/fanas gets slightly brown colour and take out.
- Fry onions in remain mustard oil with all essential masala:
๐ 1 Tej patta๐ 1 teaspoon jeera๐ 4 choti elaichi๐ 1 badi elaichi๐ 9-10 kali mirch๐ 4-5 Laung๐ Dal chini (For 2-3 minutes). - Add ingredients:
๐ 1 inch Ginger
๐ Dhaniya stems
๐ 3 Dried mirch
๐ 3 Green mirch cutting
๐ 1/2 teaspoon Haldi powder
๐ 1 teaspoon Mirch powder. - Add 2 tomato & essential masala (1 teaspoon Salt, 1 teaspoon dhaniya powder, 1 teaspoon Garam masala/ Meat masala)
- Make a curry (2-3 whistle).
- Add fried kathal/fanas & flavourful water and boil again with low flame.