With ingredients from papaya, you can transform them into delicious vegetarian dishes. The article in the kitchen below will guide you through 2 ways to cook vegetarian papaya soup with straw mushrooms and fragrant wild betel leaves.
1. Vegetarian Papaya Soup with Straw Mushrooms
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Preparation
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Medium
Ingredients for Vegetarian Papaya Soup with Straw Mushrooms Serves 4
Green papaya 200 gr Straw mushrooms 70 gr Carrot 50 gr Green onion 20 gr Seasoning powder 1 tablespoon Salt 1/2 teaspoon Cooking oil 1 tablespoon
Tips for Choosing Fresh Ingredients
Tips for choosing fresh papaya
- You should choose medium green papaya; do not choose papaya that is too young as it will make the soup bitter.
- Do not choose ripe papaya; slightly ripe papaya when cooked will have a sour taste and lose its flavor.
Tips for choosing fresh straw mushrooms
- Choose straw mushrooms that are round and still in bud form. Do not choose those that have fully bloomed.
- Black straw mushrooms are always tastier than white straw mushrooms.
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How to make Vegetarian Papaya Soup with Straw Mushrooms
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Prepare the ingredients
Peel the papaya, cut it in half, remove the seeds, slice it into pieces about 2cm thick, and then cut them in half. Carrots are cut into flower shapes and sliced 1cm thick.
Clean the straw mushrooms by cutting off the stems, rinse briefly, then soak in diluted salt water for 15 minutes to remove the smell, then drain.
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Sauté the papaya
Place a pot on the stove, add 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, then add 20g of sliced scallions and sauté until fragrant.
Next, add the papaya, add 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and sauté for about 2 minutes until the papaya is aromatic.
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Simmer the papaya with straw mushrooms
Add 700ml of water to the pot and simmer the papaya for 20 minutes.
After simmering the papaya, add the carrots and straw mushrooms to the pot, simmer for an additional 10 minutes. Finally, season with 1 tablespoon of vegetarian seasoning, stir well, and turn off the heat.
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Final Product
The brown papaya soup with straw mushrooms after completion will have a delicious sweet broth along with nutritious carrots and straw mushrooms, soft and sweet papaya.
2. Vegetarian papaya soup cooked with wild betel leaves
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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Medium
Ingredients for Vegetarian papaya soup cooked with wild betel leaves Serves 4 people
Papaya 300 g Wild betel leaves 50 g Oyster mushrooms 150 g Soft tofu 1 piece Leek 1 stalk Seasoning 20 gr (Sugar/salt/oil)
Tips for Choosing Fresh Ingredients
Tip for Choosing Fresh Papaya: Choose pinkish papaya (the flesh should be slightly yellowish) to make the soup sweeter and more visually appealing.
Tip for Choosing Good Tofu
- A good piece of tofu is always off-white; if it is yellowish or golden, it contains gypsum. The more yellow the tofu, the more gypsum it contains.
- The tofu should feel light and soft when picked up. If it feels heavy, firm, and a bit hard, or is too square, you should pass on it.
- Buyers should also pay attention to the smell of the tofu. Real, pure tofu has a characteristic fragrant smell, while tofu containing gypsum either has no smell or a faint smell of lime.
How to Prepare Vegetarian Papaya Soup with Betel Leaves
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Prepare the Papaya
Peel the papaya, cut it in half, remove the seeds, slice it into pieces about 1cm thick, and then cut them in half.
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Prepare Other Ingredients
Slice the scallions thinly, and cut the betel leaves into small strips. Tear the oyster mushrooms in half or into thirds.
Cut the soft tofu into 1cm cubes.
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Cook papaya soup with Vietnamese wild pepper leaves
Add 2 tablespoons of oil to the pot to sauté the shallots, when the shallots turn golden, add the oyster mushrooms. Season the sautéed mushrooms with 1 teaspoon of seasoning, 1/3 teaspoon of sugar, and 1 liter of water.
When the water is about to boil again, add the papaya. Continue to season with 1.5 tablespoons of seasoning, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and 1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate.
When the water boils again, add the soft tofu. When the soup is boiling, add the Vietnamese wild pepper leaves and turn off the heat, then ladle the soup out to enjoy.
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Final Product
A unique combination with a fresh and rich flavor encapsulated in every tablespoon of the papaya soup with betel leaves. The fragrant and crunchy betel leaves combined with the soft and sweet ripe papaya make it both delicious and nutritious.
The benefits of papaya for health
- In the spring and summer, eating papaya helps to clear the mind, moisten the lungs, cool down, and detoxify. In the autumn and winter, eating papaya helps to moisten dryness, warm and nourish the spleen and stomach, support the liver, moisten the lungs, stop coughing, and reduce phlegm.
- Ripe papaya is available all year round and is good for health in any season.
- In addition, papaya also has beauty benefits for the skin, used in cosmetics; people use ripe papaya, remove the skin and seeds, puree it to make a facial mask that helps treat acne.
- Green papaya cooked with all types of animal meat makes the meat tender. In our country, mothers who breastfeed often eat pig trotters stewed with green papaya to increase milk production.
Some notes when eating papaya
- Pregnant women eating papaya may cause miscarriage: For pregnant women, ripe papaya is considered safe and nutritious, but green papaya can increase the likelihood of uterine contractions due to the latex secreted from the papaya.
- Not safe for infants under 1 year old: Papaya contains a lot of fiber, and if infants eat a lot of papaya, it may cause them to have loose stools, leading to diarrhea and dehydration. If they do not rehydrate sufficiently, it can cause constipation.
- Some people should not eat papaya: People with high blood pressure, stomach pain, jaundice, those with allergic predispositions, poor digestion, or those with blood thinning… should not eat papaya regularly.
- Do not eat papaya seeds: Papaya seeds contain a toxic substance called carpine, so it is absolutely not advisable to eat papaya seeds. Eating a large quantity of papaya seeds may cause you to have heart rhythm disturbances, leading to central nervous system weakness.
- Do not eat papaya when having diarrhea: You should not eat papaya when you are experiencing diarrhea as it may lead you to severe dehydration.
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Wishing you success in making 2 ways to cook vegetarian papaya soup above!
*Images and recipes referenced from Cooky.vn, suckhoedoisong.vn and the YouTube channel Mon Ngon Moi Ngay.
