corner view~favorite dish

My favorite dish these days is something I learned to make two years ago.  I don't even know what it is called.  An Indian monk taught me as he cooked in my kitchen, several dishes going at the same time, all recipes his grandmother taught him.  We call it "Swami's Papaya Dish."  Here is the recipe, in my style, which isn't too accurate with measurements:

3 hard as a rock green papayas

2 whole onions

1 green jalapeno pepper

brown mustard seeds

olive oil

tumeric

salt

Prep:

Chop all onions into small pieces, peel and remove seeds of papayas.  (Seeds will be white, not dark colored.)  Shred papayas through food processor, so it resembles cole slaw. 

Creation:

Cook mustard seeds in oil over medium/high heat until they begin to pop.  Then add chopped onion and more oil, brown this together, stirring occasionally, over medium heat.  Add 1/2 thinly sliced pepper (this is optional, this will make it hot).  Add papaya, and more oil, enough to make it moist, 2 tsp of tumeric and shakes of salt to taste.  Add a tiny bit of water if you want.  Cook til everything is soft.  Serve with rice and plain yogurt.  Be careful not to faint, it's so good.

Addendum:  If you can't get hard green papayas, ones that are slightly ripe work, but the dish will be sweeter. This is also delicious.

I plan to make this tomorrow, I will try to post "after" photos soon.  I have papayas growing on our property, perfectly green!   Below is them a month ago.  They are bigger and more plentiful now.  I'm so excited.  This papaya plant was a volunteer from my compost bin.  It's more like a tree. 

   

  Closeup of papayas a month ago.  They are rounder now.

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