White Curry Jackfruit

Ingredients

# 1 kg young jackfruit, peeled and sliced into 5x5x3 cm slice. Soak the slices in plenty of cold water
# 100 g melinjo leaves
# 4 bay leaves
# 1 cm fresh galangale (lengkuas), bruised
# 750 ml coconut milk and 500 ml thick coconut milk from 1½ coconut Spice Paste Ingredients:
# 10 small shallots
# 7 small cloves garlic
# 10 candlenuts
# 1 tbs. coriander seeds
# salt to taste
# a pinch of sugar

Directions

Boil the jackfruit slices in the thin santan together with the melinjo leaves, the spice-paste, salam leaves and lengkuas until the jackfruit is tender.

Add the thick santan. Bring it to a boil, stirring occasionally. Continue simmering until done.

Makes 4-5 servings.