Grilled pawpaw salad recipe

Grilled Pawpaw Salad Recipe

Grilled Pawpaw Salad Recipe

By: Meg Thompson

Pawpaw contains papain, an enzyme that works to digest protein. Your gut will love this salad!


Servings

1

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • ¼-½ pawpaw, peeled, seeds removed & sliced into thick slices
  • Melted coconut oil
  • Sea salt & ground black pepper
  • ½ red capsicum, julienned
  • ¼ cup red or white cabbage, shredded
  • 2 tbsp pepitas
  • Handful coriander leaves
  • Juice ½ lime
  • Extra-virgin olive oil, to taste

Method


  • Brush pawpaw with a little coconut oil and sprinkle over a little sea salt and black pepper.
  • Place on griddle pan and cook on medium-high for a few mins, until you achieve some nice grill marks. Flip over and repeat. If you don't have griddle pan, use frying pan.
  • Combine all other ingredients, squeeze over lime juice, drizzle over olive oil and pinch sea salt and mix well.
  • Cut pawpaw into bite-size pieces and lay on top.

  

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Meg Thompson

Meg Thompson

Meg Thompson is a practising naturopath, cook, mother, writer and passionate wholefood enthusiast based in Melbourne. Meg’s interest in health, food and the role of food as medicine has shaped her career and lifestyle. Following an early career in psychology and education, she completed studies in naturopathy, nutrition and herbal medicine and now runs a successful clinical practice. Meg works from a philosophy that food is much more than something to fill our bellies, but a source of nourishment, deliciousness, education, ritual and celebration, best shared with those we love.

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