Canned jackfruit is the star of this lusciously creamy yet easy Jackfruit Curry. Quick, delicious, satisfying, and nutritious, this vegan jackfruit curry had us licking our plates!

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been wrestling with some inner turmoil. At first I tried to ignore it, hoping it would go away. But it kept on eating at me.

Well, yesterday I had had enough. I was so tired. I was done. Yesterday I gave up the fight.

And I gotta say, y’all, it’s EXHAUSTING trying to fight a vicious craving for chocolate cake!

I tried to use the fact that I was on a baking slump to talk myself out of the craving. But yesterday I saw this chocolate cake tower on Instagram and I was done!

So, yesterday, I went home during my lunch break, armed with a recipe from the interwebs, and baked a mini chocolate cake! My daughter has been avoiding eggs so I made sure it was a vegan one.

When I got home after my day job, I frosted it, and after a quick after-dinner walk around our neighborhood, my daughter and I decided to enjoy a slice.

And, y’all, this baking slump is insane!

Somehow I managed to mess up the recipe I found that had over 50-5 star reviews!

How???

I’m totally baffled!!!
Especially seeing I had a delicious ruby port to pair it with…

All I gotta say is thank God for canned jackfruit and canned beans that I managed to turn into a delicious and easy jackfruit curry. At least my curry game is still strong!

No, this curry didn’t squelch my chocolate cake craving, but, when that cake slice had to be tossed (yes it was inedible) seconds of this curry were quite satisfying.

What can I do with a tin of jackfruit?

I used canned jackfruit of jackfruit in a tin to make this flavor packed curry as I haven’t had a chance to check out the fresh jackfruit at the Dekalb Farmers Market.
I drained the liquid out of the canned jackfruit and rinsed the jackfruit chunks and let them dry off on a paper towel before I added them into this curyy.

In the summer months, most Farmers markets (and sometimes even Kroger stores) around Atlanta have a good supply of fresh and deliriously delicious jackfruit. And, during that time, my daughter and I grab us some fresh jackfruit and enjoy treats like this mango jackfruit smoothie.

But, during the rest of the year, I use canned jackfruit to make recipes like this curry and these tacos.

As with most of the curries you will find here, this is an easy one. You should be able to find all the ingredients for it at your local grocery store or Amazon, if you prefer.

And, as with most of the other curries on here – this is quite versatile. If you don’t want to use jackfruit and sub in another veggie or meat, go ahead. If you’d like to leave the beans out, that’s perfectly fine as well.

How to make a quick, healthy, vegan jackfruit curry?

By the way, if you are wondering, the creamy texture of this curry is not because of coconut milk or any other milk.

After I had sautéed the onions, ginger, and garlic, I used an immersion blender to blend all the ingredients together until creamy. No immersion blender ~ no problem. Just add the ingredients to a blender along with some canned fire roasted tomatoes. The creamy texture of this curry is a result of the blending of the onions, ginger, garlic, and fire roasted tomatoes.

After that it was just adding in some spices, jackfruit, and, beans and voila!

Dinner was done!

My daughter made some coconut roti to go with this jackfruit curry, while I made some onion roti to go with it.

Hoping you enjoy this easy curry as much as we did!

Happy Juneteenth Everyone!

I think this weekend I’m going to try and climb out of this baking slump with this chocolate cake!