Kirla & Bikkanda Sukke / Bamboo Shoot & Peeled Jackfruit Seeds Dry Sukka

💁Ingredients

2 cups of finely chopped, fresh, tender bamboo shoot
2 cup of peeled jackfruit seed pieces
1 cup grated coconut 🥥
12 guntur red chillies + 5 Badgi red chillies
2 tbsp coriander seeds
2 tbsp urad dal
Little tamarind
Lemon size jaggery piece
2 -3 tbsp of oil
1/2 tbsp of mustard seeds
1 leaflet of curry leaves
Salt to taste

💁Method Prepping the Bamboos

The fresh, tender bamboo shoots sold in the market are peeled to remove the outer, thick layers until you reach the soft tender layer that is completely white. The remaining inner, completely white portion of the the bamboo shoot is edible.The outer layers are discarded.
The inner, tender bamboo shoots are then finely chopped.👉 Keep them in water for 2 -5 days. Change the water daily. Use these bamboo shoots on the 5 day to prepare keerla chakko.

Only the soft, inner, thin layers of bamboo are used to make this dish. All the outer, thick, layers of the bamboo are peeled off and thrown away.

Drain all the water, pressure cook the chopped bamboo shoot with peeled jackfruit seed along with salt and enough water 1 cup for 1 whistle. The fresh bamboo shoots remain crunchy even after cooking. The bamboo pieces change a little in colour. They turn from white to off-white.

After cooking the bamboo shoots, drain all the water that was used to cook them in and keep the cooked bamboo shoot pieces aside.

💁Preparing the Masala

Heat up a frying pan, add few drops of oil, urad dal, coriander seeds and red chillies. Fry them until the urad dal starts to brown and you get the aroma of fried coriander seeds, red chillies and urad dal.

Once they cool, grind them with coconut, salt, jaggery and tamarind into a coarse paste
paste, using as little water as possible.

Jaggery is added for taste so adjust the quantity you add according to your taste.👉You can even skip it if you want the side dish to be completely spicy.👈

Heat a cooking pan, add remaining oil, mustard. Once the mustard starts popping, few pieces of red chilli, curry leaves.

Then add the ground masala and simmer for a minute Once the masala gets a little dry, add the cooked bamboo shoots & jackfruit seeds pieces and simmer until it gets little dry.

Remove off heat and serve hot with rice. As a side dish. 😋😋