Papaya harvesting

Nata and Komang just harvested some of our Papayas. If they are very young, we use them to make a most delicious vegetable dish. They have to be green and they taste a bit like asparagus. When they begin to gently yellow a bit, they are harvested as a fruit, placed in a dark corner to turn bright yellow the outside. These special Balinese papayas have an orange fruit flesh. It kernels , crushed and bitter tasting,are a known natural medicine for any kind of liver ailments.

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Papaya Salad

Papaya Salad

• 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated #lime
• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 2 tablespoons honey
• fresh hot chilis, minced to taste
• 3 cups matchstick-cut or julienned green #papayas
• 1/2 cup very thinly sliced sweet onion
• 1/2 cup pea shoots, cut into 3-inch pieces, or bean sprouts
• Freshly ground pepper, to taste

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Fruit from the organic garden

Cacao fruit

Here at Jiwa Damai we grow various fruit in the extensive permaculture garden.

And this is how the ripe cacao fruit looks inside.

Inside of ripe cacao fruit

We also have several papaya trees.

Homegrown, organic papaya