Jack Fruit Wine Recipe / Chakka Wine Recipe

May this Christmas fill your hearts with

warmth, peace and joy! Have a Holy and a Blessed Christmas!

Hope all of you are ready for

Christmas celebrations with family and friends..... Today’s Christmas special

recipe is Jack Fruit Wine or Chakka Wine.... I got this recipe from my

sister-in-law, Vimala sometime back..... since it is difficult to get Jack Fruit /

Chakka here, or highly priced if available,

I never got a chance to try it.... On my last vacation to Kerala

there were a couple of jack fruits left over from

that season at my mom’s place..... I love chakka and I ate ripe chakka to my heart

content that day.... I even asked my aunt to make some Chakka curry/ puzukku too

with unripened chakka… Chakka curry with kadumanga pickle is heavenly! So even

after eating ripe chakka Chula/ jack fruit bulbs morning, afternoon and evening

there was a lot left over..... and she was planning to make chakka halwa.... Then I

thought about this wine recipe and told her will make some wine..... so we both

made the wine that day and by the time I left Kerala the wine was ready..... so I

took a bottle of wine from there and was waiting for the wine to age..... so here

is how we made the wine....the quantity of water and sugar depends upon the

chakka / jack fruit you use.... You may have to + or - water and sugar accordingly.....

fire. Then beat well in the mixie. This is jack fruit pulp. This should weigh

1 kg).

Make a syrup of sugar and water.

Dissolve yeast in ½ cup warm

water.

Mix yeast solution and the jack

fruit pulp with the sugar syrup and pour in to a clean sterilize bottle /

bharani.

Close the mouth of the bottle/

bharani and secure tightly with cloth tied over the mouth.

Keep aside for 15 days.

Strain and keep for another three

days.

This wine mellows with age and is

best after a month or more.

Saira, Mohan uncle and Elsy aunty

for the beautiful wooden board in the picture… Uncle made it exactly as I

wanted, Thanks a lot :)....

To my sister in law for the Jack

fruit wine recipe,

To my aunt for making the wine

for me.