Papaya Chi Wadi

Steamed papaya dumplings

Preparation info
  • Makes

    12

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Sanjeev Kapoor

Published 2011

  • About

I discovered this snack when I moved to Mumbai and began exploring the local Maharashtrian food. Up until that time, I had thought of ripe papaya as only a table fruit.

Ingredients

  • 1 small ripe papaya
  • 2 or 3 fresh cloves garlic, chopped
  • ½-inch (1-

Method

  1. Wash, peel, and seed the papaya, and grate it into a large bowl.
  2. Put the garlic, ginger, and chiles in a spice grinder with 1 tablespoon water and grind to a paste.
  3. Add the paste to the papaya, along with the chile powder, turmeric, cumin, salt, lemon juic