Raw Papaya Recipes

PAPAYA 

This versatile fruit can be used as a vegetable when raw and can be eaten as a ripe fruit too.
The pulp, skin as well as the seeds are used for various purposes. 

As Children when a papaya was cut open we were forced to eat atleast 2 tiny bitter seeds..Hmmm...No choice there(which we generally gulped it down our throat with water !)..But now I know the ringworm theory behind it ..

  
Ripe Papaya has to be eaten within 20 mins fo peeling and cutting it so that maximum nutrients will be absorbed by the body

Don't miss out on the skin of the ripe papaya, rub it all over your face and wash it in tap water after 20 mins .

GREEN PAPAYA DAL

The easiest way to eat Green papaya is by adding it to any yellow dal 

Peel and chop the raw papaya
Add it to any yellow dal while cooking
Mash this veggie in the cooked dal itself.It blends so well with the dal that kids wont even get to know :) ( Tricks of a health freak mom! )

 

Green Papaya chutney:

Ingredients :
1 small Green or Raw Papaya
10-15 leaves coriander, finely chopped
1 table-spoon fresh lime juice
3-4 green chillies, slit
a pinch of asafoetida
1/4 t-spoon Jeera
1/4 t-spoon mustard seeds
1/2 table-spoon oil
1 t-spoon sugar
salt to taste

Method:

• Peel papaya and coarsely grate it.
• Take a medium size pan and heat oil in it. After a minute add cumin and mustard seeds, asafoetida and turn the heat to low. When the mustard starts splutter, add grated papaya and green chillies. Cook for 3-4 mins. on low heat.
• Then add the remaining ingredients, stir well and cook papaya chutney untill papaya gets the blend of all the spices and it gets tender. Usually it takes 10 mins. Stir occasionally. Turn off the heat
• Let the Green Papaya chutney gets cool at room temperature. Then transfer it to the glass bowl.
• Serve papaya chutney with pulao or sabzi roti...Its yummyyy