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Papaya

(puh PIE uh) A melonlike, pear-shaped fruit (sometimes confusingly called pawpaw). Papayas have from greenish yellow to yellow-orange skin and golden orange meat. The seed cavity has tiny black seeds. Papayas taste like a cross between peaches and melons. They are fragrant and sweet with a creamy, spoonable consistency.

Recipes

  1. Papaya -Mango Ice Cream Daiquiri

    Serve this summery honey-sweetened rum, mango juice, papaya , and ice cream beverage in tall chilled glasses.

  2. Papaya -Avocado Salad

    Crunchy jicama and walnuts pair with creamy papaya and avocado for an unusual salad.

  3. Spicy Green Papaya Salad

    For this Thai classic, Andy Ricker uses a mortar and pestle to pound crunchy raw green beans with a piquant mix of chiles, garlic, fish sauce and lime juice. He then tosses in crisp strips of unripened papaya .

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Food Blogs We Love

  1. How To Cut Papaya Chunks (Power Foods)

    Fri, 26 Oct 2012

    I love tropical fruits of all sorts – especially mangoes, papaya , dragon fruit, kiwi fruit, and lychee nuts. Perhaps it’s the exotic scent of some of them, or the luscious flesh, or the... Continue Reading

  2. Almond Breeze Tropical Sunshine Smoothie

    Fri, 8 Mar 2013

    … to get him through allergy season. So papaya , pineapple, and mango it is! I made a ..... off with a cup full of sunshine? 1/2 papaya , seeded and cubed 1/2 mango, peeled ..... your fruit is not frozen) I have eaten papaya before, but I had never used one in my …

  3. Watermelon Blueberry Salsa

    Fri, 24 Aug 2012

    … the chart. Perfect for this salsa! I also happened to have a papaya sitting there, all lonely and bored. The poor thing’s future was ..... right, the seeds! A lot of people don’t know that, but papaya seeds not only are edible (they have the most interesting peppery flavor …

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