lunch with stir-fried papaya flowers mixed with small shrimps

Papaya flowers have many benefits for our health, such as facilitating digestion, lowering blood sugar levels and also reducing inflammation, so it is not surprising that many Indonesians like papaya flowers. Indeed, the nature of papaya flowers is a little bitter, but if we know how to process them, papaya flowers will no longer be bitter. Do you want to know how to process papaya flowers?

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As an Indonesian, there are indeed many food menus available here, although papaya flowers sound unpleasant and bitter, but if processed correctly, the bitter taste of papaya flowers becomes a very delicious vegetable, especially here I cook papaya flowers by stir-frying them with small shrimp, as we know shrimp are very sweet when mixed with any vegetables.

Okay, today I have papaya flowers at home, which I picked directly from the tree. It so happens that behind the house there is a papaya tree that doesn't bear fruit, it only has flowers. It's true that papaya trees that don't bear fruit have abundant flowers, which we can use for our favorite vegetables.

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Materials used

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300 grams of papaya flowers
150 grams of shrimp
1 tbsp tauco
15 red chilies
15 green chilies
1 tomatoes
3 cloves of shallots
2 cloves of garlic
1 stalk of kedondong leaves

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Manufacturing procedure

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First, I chopped the red chilies, green chilies, shallots, garlic and tomatoes, I put them together on one plate, then I prepared the shrimp and papaya flowers that I had cleaned.

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Next, I boil water in a pan, then I put in the papaya flowers, I boil them until they are cooked, and I also put in 1 stalk of kedondong leaves, I boil them together with the kedondong leaves, previously I had washed the kedondong leaves clean.then I cover it so that it cooks perfectly, while waiting for the papaya flowers to cook, I heat a little cooking oil to saute the spices

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I sauteed the chili seasoning, after the chilies wilted, then I put in the shrimp, cooked for a while, then I put in the tauco, salt and a little water, then I cooked again until the shrimp were cooked.

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Next, I saw that the papaya flowers were ripe, I washed the papaya flowers again with clean water, then I squeezed them so that all the boiled water came out, and I also threw away the kedondong leaves, then after that I put the papaya flowers into the stir-fried shrimp, I cooked them until the papaya flowers were evenly mixed with the spices, until they were absorbed.

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RESULTS

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by cooking like this, the papaya flower is not bitter at all, it tastes very delicious and savory, why do I put kedondong leaves into the boiled papaya flower, yes, that's the key so that the papaya leaves are not bitter, I add the boiled papaya flower water, I squeeze it out until it's all gone, then I wash the papaya flower again with clean water.

So, if you like papaya leaves, try my recipe, a recipe for papaya leaves that is not bitter. I guarantee you will be addicted to the taste, because it is not bitter at all when cooked this way.

Thank you very much for those who have taken the time to read my post this time, I hope this post is a little useful for the readers, and see you in my next post and I also really hope for the support of all friends, so that what we want while we are here we can make it happen

_{All these photos are taken by @Ryanaa herself, taken using a Realme phone Type RMX3630}

Thank you 🙂🤗

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