This is a simple dish with the ingredients easy to find, but very attractive and quite famous of the Ede people. Crushed Papaya of the Ede People has many ways of processing such as crushed papaya with bitter eggplant, crushed papaya with ambarella, with tamarind, pounded with yellow ants…
But in general, it is combined between additional ingredients with papaya to create the dish with sour, spicy and crunchy sweet taste.
Papaya have just getting yellow, is cut into thin, small, long slices
From the ingredients that grow wild on the hill or home garden, the Ede people process many unique and delicious dishes. Besides bitter eggplant, papaya is also a popular ingredient and is present in many delicious dishes of the Ede people. The pounded papaya dish is like a salad, loved by the Ede people form old to young.
Papaya must choose a fruit that has just ripe, slightly turn on yellow, but hard is the best. The fruit will have less latex and taste sweet when processed. Beside of papaya is the main ingredient, salt and chili are indispensable. The sour ingredients can be ambarella, tamarind, lemon, passion fruit, yellow ant salt, sour-soup creeper...Fragrant vegetable can be cilantro, lemon leaf, green leaf...
Ripe tamarind has a sweet and sour taste that is often used in pounded papaya
This dish, after processing, is ready to eat. Since the papaya will lose its crunch if staying for a long time. Therefore, the preparation is quite simple and fast. The papaya is peeled, washed, cut around the papaya with a knife, then cut into thin slices, long strands as usual cutting ingredients for salads. After cutting, soak in diluted salt water for a few minutes, take out to drain. Green and ripe chili should be removed the stem, put in a bowl, add salt and seasoning and crush. Then, adding all small pieces of fragrant vegetable into crushed salt mixture.
Continuing, the Ede People put the acidic ingredients into the pounding, it can be tamarin, passion fruit, ambarella…The sourness and aroma of the pounding ingredients together with chili salt create special aroma. This flavor soars to the nose stimulates the senses, increasing the craving until running saliva. Finally, the stage of pounding papaya, the papaya has been cut into small pieces and put into the bowls. Ede people will use mortar to pound slightly until all of ingredients are mixed well together. At this time, can add a little bit of spice to taste well.
Attractive sour papaya dish of the Ede people
Crushed and sour papaya has become a famous specialty of Ede people. The Ede people consider this dish is an indispensable part of daily cuisine. In the free time, Families gather together, people gather together to make this pounded papaya salads. Beside the sour, spicy papaya dish, the whole family sat around to eat and enjoy, talk about life stories...just like that, from ages, this dish became a bond in each family member and Ede community.
Source: baodaknong,org.vn, Đ.H translated