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Chunky Avocado-Papaya Salsa
Updated May 6, 2024
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- Total Time
- 20 minutes
- Rating
- Notes
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Ingredients
- 2medium-size ripe Hass avocados, halved, pitted and cut in small dice
- 1small ripe papaya, halved, seeded, peeled and cut in small dice (about 2 cups dice)
- 1tart apple, unpeeled, or Asian pear, peeled if desired, cored and cut in small dice
- ¼cup freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1fresh red or green serrano chile, seeded and thinly sliced or minced, or more to taste
- ¼cup chopped cilantro
- 2tablespoons chopped fresh mint
- ½small red onion, diced small, soaked for 5 minutes in water to cover, drained and rinsed (optional)
- Salt to taste
Preparation
- Step 1
Combine diced avocados and papaya in a medium bowl. Add remaining ingredients and toss together. Season to taste with salt. Serve as a salad or a salsa.
- Advance preparation: This will last for a couple of hours but is best eaten shortly after assembling.
Private Notes
Cooking Notes
Is green papaya?
It’s a roll of the dice. The avocados weren’t entirely ripe and the papaya wasn’t even close. But, I added more apples and served it with steelhead, and it was good! No cilantro, thank you.
Made a few variations: used one avocado, an apple instead of papaya, a jalapeno pepper instead of serrano chile and no cilantro (I'm one of those who can't stand the stuff). Delicious and not at all runny; possibly due to the apple/papaya swap.
Delicious. Flavor very nice. Apple adds a nice crunch. I found that juice gathers in the bottom of the dish within an hour of making, which makes a salsa a little runny.
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