Pawpaw Balls

Name: Pawpaw Balls
Yield: Makes 24
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest; 2¾ cups sugar plus additional for rolling; 4 green papayas, peeled, seeded, and grated; 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice

Preparation info

Makes
24

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

About

These sweet-tart balls of cooked green papaya remind me of all-natural gumdrops.

Ingredients

4 green papayas, peeled, seeded, and grated
2¾ cups sugar plus additional for rolling
1 teaspoon<

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Place the grated papaya in a clean dish towel and twist the towel to squeeze out about half of the juice from the papaya, roughly ¼ cup of liquid. Discard the juice.
In a large saucepan, combine the papaya pulp, sugar, lemon zest, and lime juice. Bring the mixture to a simmer and cook, stirring, until it has a jellylike consistency, about 15 to 20 minutes.