Papaya Chi Wadi

Name: Papaya Chi Wadi
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon ground roasted cumin; ½ teaspoon ground turmeric; ½ cup (50 grams) besan (chickpea/gram flour); 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice; 1 cup (60 grams) chopped fresh cilantro; Pinch of baking soda; 1 teaspoon plus 1 quart (800 ml) vegetable oil; 1 teaspoon chaat masala (spice mix for chaat; 1 teaspoon table salt; ½ teaspoon red chile powder; 1 small ripe papaya; 2 green chiles, stemmed and chopped; 2 or 3 fresh cloves garlic, chopped; ½-inch (1-cm) piece fresh ginger, chopped

Steamed papaya dumplings

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

How to Cook Indian

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-

Asia
India
Maharashtra
Snack
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

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