Dishes and preparations

Jackfruit is commonly used in South and Southeast Asian cuisines. It can be eaten unripe (young) or ripe, and cooked or uncooked. The seeds can also be used in certain recipes.
Unripe (young) jackfruits are also eaten whole, cooked as a vegetable. Young jackfruit has a mild flavour and distinctive texture. The cuisines of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Vietnam use cooked young jackfruit. In many cultures, jackfruit is boiled and used in curries as a food staple.

Jackfruit chips
Kathal Subzee: Spicy vegetable with raw jackfruit from Uttar Pradesh or Punjab, India.
Chakka Pradaman: Jackfruit pudding from Kerala, India.
Enchorer Torkari: Curry made from unripe jackfruit from West Bengal, India.
Guzo Suke: Dry spicy dish of raw jackfruit from Mangalore, India.
Ghariyo: Jackfruit sweet dish from Mangalore, India.
Jackfuit Pappad: Jackfruit Pappad as a snack from Mangalore, India.
Chakka Varatti: Jackfruit Jam from Kerala, India.
Chakka Vattal: Jackfruit Chips from Kerala, India.
Panasa Koora: Traditional Jackfruit Curry from coastal Andhra, India.
Gudeg: traditional dish from Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.
Lodeh: traditional Indonesian vegetable dish with coconut milk.
Gule Nangka: traditional Indonesia spicy curry Indonesia.
Gatti or Gidde in Tulu where ripe jackfruit is ground with rava to form thick paste which is put on a teak wood leaf and then cooked in steam.The gidde is ready.
An optional ingredient in Sayur asam (Indonesian clear soup; the name means tamarind vegetables)
Also ingredient in Indonesian traditional Minangkabau cuisine.
Jackfruit salad: Vietnamese dish with boiled young jackfruit.
Rice and curry in Sri Lanka
The seeds can also be eaten cooked or baked like beans. They taste similar to chestnuts.

Other preparations:
Jackfruit chips
Asian ice desserts (including Indonesian & Filipino)
Turon, a Filipino dessert made of banana and jackfruit wrapped in an eggroll wrapper
Sometimes an added ingredient for cassava cake
An optional ingredient in kolak (an Indonesian mung bean and coconut based dessert).
It is thought that jackfruit is the basis for the flavour of Juicy Fruit chewing gum.
Jackfruit candy