Jackfruit Rendang

Rendang is not a curry with a sauce; it is a curry cooked until the sauce has gone entirely, leaving spice paste clinging to the meat of the dish.

Jackfruit takes to it well because it is fibrous enough to shred and bland enough to carry the paste.

Rendang is a dry curry. It is finished when the coconut milk has split and the oil has come back out of it, not when it still looks like sauce.

Everything before that point is simmering; the last twenty minutes, when it starts to fry in its own oil, is where the flavor is made.