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Papaya Salad

Delicious and healthy papaya salad for your health and wellness.

Papaya is a nutritious fruit that is very easy to digest and contributes to the digestion of other foods.  It contains small amount of an enzyme. This enzyme is capable of digesting 200 times its own weight in proteins.  Add this papaya recipe to your holistic health and wellness.

Green Papayas make a healthy delicious salad.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 small green papaya, OR 1/2 large
  • 1 green mango
  • 1/2 cup roasted peanuts or cashews
  • 1 to 2 tomatoes, cut into thin wedges or long strips
  • 3 spring onions, cut into long matchstick-like pieces
  • 1/2 cup fresh basil, leaves left whole or chopped
  • handful of fresh coriander
  • 1 red chili, sliced, seeds removed (reduce or omit, to taste)
  • Optional: 1 cup blanched green beans
  • Optional: unsweetened coconut flakes

DRESSING:

  • 1 Tbsp. Tamari sauce (or organic wheat-free reduced sodium tamari sauce)
  •  3 Tbsp. lime juice
  • 1/2 to 1 Tbsp. agave nectar/ liquid honey, to taste
  • 1/8 to 1/4 tsp. chili sauce or cayenne pepper, to taste

Preparation:

1. Mix tamari sauce, lime juice, agave nectar and chili sauce. Adjust agave nectar and chili according to taste. Set aside.

2. Brown coconut until lightly brown. Set aside.A peeled papaya being prepared for a salad that will be a great addition to your holistic health and wellness program.

3. Blanch green beans and set aside.

4. Peel mango, then shred. A simple peeler can be used.

5. One medium papaya cut in half. Remove seeds.

6. Peel the skin of the papaya, then shred.

7. Chop onions.

8. Chop basil leaves.

9. Cut tomatoes on wedges.

10. Add all ingredients above. Then combine coriander and peanuts.

11. Decorate with a little coconut on the top

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About Author:

Etta Hornsteiner

Etta Hornsteiner

Etta Hornsteiner has spent 12 years as an Educator teaching both English and Acting. Her love for fitness led her into bodybuilding competitions and later into a career as a personal trainer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada in English and minors in Sociology and Spanish, a Master’s degree in Education with emphasis in Theatre from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, a Master's degree in Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching from Maryland University of Integrative Health, and a coaching certificate from Duke Integrative Health. She is certified by the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching and the International Coaching Federation. She is the author of the Ten Guiding Lights to Health and Wholeness.

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