SOME USE DISHES MADE PAPAYA

Vegetable of papaya: peel off the rind of a raw papaya and cut it in to half to extract out all the seeds from it. Now wash the peaces thoroughly in the lukewarm water. Now take a thick bottomed fry pan, put in ghee
(desi ghee or some good quality of refine oil) and allow it to boil a byte. Now cut an onion to fine pieces and put it in this oil or ghee. When onion turns red, then slip in the pieces of papaya with whatever spice you wish to cook it with. But don’t add to much of chilies or amchoor, etc. otherwise the medicinal value of this vegetable will destroyed. Now put in the pan a little of water and try to mesh the papaya pieces a bite with the help of a spatula or karchul. Add a little of water and cover the pan. Now allow it to cook itself. Stir it occasionally till done.

This vegetable is ideal to help cure oil sort of stomach ailments. Should you like you can add potatoes, brinjals, tamatoes, gourd, etc. in this vegetable to improve its taste. Those who don’t it onion may season the vegetable with asafetida and cuminseeds.

Pickle of papaya: take about 2 kgs. Of papaya. Peel off the rind and shell out its seeds. Now reduce it to small pieces and spread it under the sun for about 2 to 3 hours. Continue keeping them in the sun til the water them dries up. Now take 100 gms. Of mustard seeds, 50 gms.ground cuminseeds, 25 gms. Roasted cuminseeds, 100 gms. Ground red chillies, 5 gms. Roasted asafetida add all of them together. Pour in a little of mustard oil so that the mixture is well mixed. Now cover the pieces of Papaya with this Masala, and put them in a glass jar under the scorching sun. Occasionally shake the jar. After three days of keeping it in the sun, pour in enough of the mustard oil so that the pieces of Papaya are fully sunken in the oil. Now close the opening of the jar and keep it again in the sun for 20 to 25 days. Keep it lying in the open so that it gets the cooling effect of the dew. Just shake the jar a little every day. After twentyfive days the pickle will be ready. It lasts for a long period and is a very effective whether of the appetite.