I have a strange relation with papaya . I love it and at the same time hate it . It is the raw papaya that I love , the ripe one has to be sweet , then only it gets my love , else can’t bear .
While buying veggies I picked this raw papaya to make my favorite Thai Papaya Salad . I couldn’t use it right away , so when I peeled the papaya , it was no longer raw , it was not sweet either . I really didn’t know what to do with it !
Since I had my prep work done for the salad I simply dumped everything in the mixy, yes even the papaya ! Gave it a quick blitz and my chutney was ready .
Trust me it had the same taste as of Thai salad , just that I made it spicy as I served it with Varagu Arisi Idlis , but the chutney can be served with Dosa’s or pakoras or eat spoonfuls of it .
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Papaya Chutney
Ingredients
2 cups ripe papaya
2 green chilly
1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp tamarind extract
1/2 cup peanuts
Salt to taste
Method
Peel the papaya, cut into chunks.
To your mixer grinder add all ingredients and pulse a few minutes till everything is well incorporated and turns into a smooth paste .
Note
Taste the chutney and adjust all ingredients according to taste.
If the papaya is bland you might require more sugar . And accordingly you will require tamarind and chilly .
Papaya Peanut Chutney
A pleasant chutney made with papaya with Thai flavors.
Ingredients
- 2 cups papaya grated or chopped
- 2 green chilly
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp tamarind extract
- 1/2 cup peanuts
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Peel the papaya, cut into chunks
- To your mixer grinder add all ingredients and pulse a few minutes till everything is well incorporated and turns into a smooth paste .
Notes
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Very interesting Vaishali..surely must try…I guess you used the unripe papaya right..
Yes , it was unripe , but heading to get ripe .
That’s a twist in the unusual chutney: somehow unripe papayas don’t suit my family so never got to taste this.
Thats an interesting combination.. will try
An unusual chutney Vaishali. Looks so nice and now waiting for a tasteless papaya to make it 🙂 Wonderful idea.
That is an awesome spin Vaishali! We love both the ripe and unripe papayas out here…With the same ingredients I made sabji except that the papaya is grated.
Awesome now will wait for the rains to uproot some neighbours papaya plant. She will distribute the love. Strangely we never get raw papayas in the market.
I am funny with papaya also – I like green papaya as in Thai green papaya salad but I don’t like ripe papaya because of the mouthfeel – it has a dry aftertaste I don’t like same with persimmon however I like things flavored with ripe papaya as in juice, ice cream, jam, etc. However, this chutney sounds amazing!
Thats a fantastic chutney, never tried papaya and peanut together in chutney. And those idlies are calling me. Too tempting.
Very interesting chutney. Got to try it definitely.
Never tried a chutney with Papaya.. absolutely delicious!!
I have never used papaya in chutney. This looks nice to try.