Papaya, belonging to the family Rosaceae, deciduous shrubs or small trees. The bark is often flaky, with distinctive traces. Leaves elliptic-ovate, serrate, young leaves abaxially tomentose.
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Papaya (Chaenomeles sinensis) alias wood pear, light skin papaya. Belong to the Rosaceae, papaya genus. Deciduous shrubs or small trees. Native to northern China, currently cultivated throughout.
Morphological features
Deciduous shrubs or small trees. 5-10 meters high, bark gray, flaky peeling, new bark smooth yellow-brown. Branchlets purplish red, with spiny branchlets. Leaves oblong-ovate, sparsely obovate, 5-10 cm long, 3.5-8.0 cm wide, apex acute, margins spinose-aristate sharply serrate, apices glandular punctate. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, red or white, 2.5-3.0 cm in diameter, opening at the same time as the leaves or slightly later, fragrant. Fruit like a melon, long ellipsoid, 10-15 cm long, dull yellow, woody, fragrant. Flowering in April, fruit ripening in September-October.
Common species and varieties of the same genus
1. Begonia papaya, also known as hairy-leaved papaya, wood peach. It is a species of the same genus. Deciduous small trees.
2. Wrinkled-skinned papaya AKA Sticky Begonia, wild papaya. For the same genus. Shrubs two meters high.
3. Japanese papaya is a species of the same genus. Dwarf shrubs. 1 meter high.
Adaptive environment
Temperate species. Adaptable, light-loving, also tolerate semi-shade, cold-resistant, drought-resistant. The soil requirements are not strict, in fertile, well-drained clay, loam can grow normally, avoid low-lying and saline land.
English name FRUCTUS CHAENOMELIS
Alias stick to the stem begonias, iron foot pear, wrinkled papaya, Xuan papaya
Source of this product for the Rosaceae plant stick to the stem begonias Chaenomeles speciosa (Sweet) Nakai's dry nearly mature fruit. Summer and autumn fruits are harvested when green and yellow, scalded in boiling water until the outer skin gray-white, half longitudinal dissection, sun-dried.
Method of preparation: wash, moisten or steam, cut into thin slices, and dry in the sun.
Traits of this product is oblong, more longitudinal dissected into two halves, length 4 ~ 9cm, width 2 ~ 5cm, thickness 1 ~ 2. 5cm. the outer surface of the purplish-red or reddish-brown, with irregular deep wrinkles; section of the edge of the inward curling, flesh reddish-brown, the center part of the concave, brownish-yellow; the seeds are flat and long-triangular, and more shedding. Texture hard. Gas slightly fragrant, taste sour.
Identification
Take 1g of this product powder, add 70% ethanol 10ml, heating reflux 1 hour, filtration, filtrate according to the following method.
(1) Take 1ml of filtrate, evaporate, add 1ml of acetic anhydride to dissolve the residue, pour it into a test tube, add 1-2 drops of sulfuric acid along the wall of the tube, and a purplish-red ring will be shown at the junction of the two liquids; the upper layer of the liquid will appear brownish-yellow.
(2) Take drops of filtrate on filter paper, wait for drying, spray aluminum trichloride solution, after drying, placed in the ultraviolet lamp (365nm) under the observation, showing blue fluorescence.
Acid, warm. Attributed to the liver and spleen meridians.
Functions: calming the liver and relaxing the tendons, harmonizing the stomach and resolving dampness. It is used for dampness paralysis and constriction, soreness and pain in lumbar and knee joints, vomiting, diarrhea and cramps, and foot edema.
Dosage: 6-9g.
Store in a cool and dry place, moisture-proof and moth-proof.
Remarks (1) the treatment of rheumatism and paralysis pain is generally used for the majority of people with lumbar and knee pain, often used with tiger bone and so on. For the treatment of vomiting and diarrhea, the important medicine. Used for summer dampness and cholera, vomiting and diarrhea to the tendons of the disease, can be equipped with Job's tears, jellyfish sand, Huanglian, Cornu Cervi and other medicines used together. In addition, this product is also for the treatment of swollen and painful feet, can be used with Cornus officinalis, perilla, betel nut. It can also be used for dyspepsia.
Excerpt from Chinese Pharmacopoeia
Papaya and Fish Tail Soup
Ingredients
750 grams of papaya, 600 grams of grass carp tail, 1 teaspoon of salt, 3 slices of ginger, 1 tablespoon of oil.
How to make
1) Remove core, skin and cut papaya into pieces.
②Start a frying pan, add ginger slices and sauté whale tail.
3 papaya into the pot, with 8 bowls of water Fort roll, and then scooped up 2 bowls of boiling water poured into the pot, and has been pan-fried fish tails with a few moments of cooking, and then the fish tails with the soup back to the Fort, with the heat of the pot for 1 hour, under the salt to taste, you can drink.
Description
Women's post-partum weakness, if not properly regulated, it will be loss of appetite, lack of milk. To nourish and benefit the qi, it is best to drink papaya fish tail soup, because whale tail can tonify the spleen and benefit the qi, with papaya soup, it has the effect of lactation and stomach, the most suitable for postpartum women to drink.
The green papaya has a convex shape and a smooth skin. When ripe, the skin turns from green to orange, and the flesh is reddish-orange, with small, round, smooth black seeds in the center.
Fry the grass carp tails first, then use two bowls of boiling water to cook for a few moments, before pouring back into the Fort with a gentle fire, which will make the soup milky and more delicious.
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Papaya Fresh Milk Juice
Raw materials: papaya 360g, two cups of fresh milk, sugar moderate, crushed ice moderate.
Methods: Take fresh ripe papaya, remove the skin, core, cut into large pieces. Put the papaya pieces, fresh milk, sugar and appropriate amount of crushed ice cubes into the juicer, break it into thick juice, and drink it.
Effects: Moisturize the skin and nourish the face.
Note: It is not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach.
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Papaya, peanut and jujube soup
Ingredients
Papaya 750 grams, peanuts 150 grams, jujube 5, tablets of sugar 3 / 2 pieces.
How to do
1) Peel, core and cut papaya into pieces.
②Papaya, peanuts, jujubes and 8 bowls of water into the pot, put the sugar, until the water rolled to the fire after boiling for 2 hours to drink.
Description
Babies grow up eating human milk, the body will be stronger and healthier. However, some women will suffer from lack of milk when feeding their babies due to insufficient milk after delivery. To increase breast milk, you can boil papaya, peanut and jujube soup to drink, which has a significant effect on increasing breast milk.
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Papaya Mousse
Ingredients: one medium-sized papaya, 2 spoons of fructose, 200 grams of low-fat yogurt, 1 tablespoon of watercress powder, 1/4 cup of pudding juice, and three medium-sized passion fruits.
How to do it
Peel the papaya and cut it into pieces, mix the papaya pieces, fructose, and yogurt, then add the powdered watercress to the orange juice in hot water and melt it (or heat it up in the microwave oven for 20 seconds), then add the orange juice (mixed with the powdered watercress) and the passion fruit to the papaya. and passion fruit into the papaya "mixture", stir well, pour into four glasses, and put in the refrigerator to chill on the line!
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Papaya and soybean pig's foot soup
Ingredients: papaya, a pig's foot, soybeans, green onions, ginger, a little wine.
Methods:
1. Scrape the skin of the pig's foot and cut it into pieces, and scald it with boiling water to remove the fishy.
2. Boil a pot of boiling water and put onion, ginger, cooking wine, soybean and pig's feet in a small fire stew for 2 hours.
3. Peel and deseed the papaya, add it to the ingredients in Method 2 and simmer for another half hour.
4. Turn off the heat when the soup is done, put it into a bowl and sprinkle a little salt on it before serving.
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Papaya Stir-Fry Sliced Beef
Ingredients: 1 papaya, 3 taels of beef, 3 tablespoons of soy sauce and cooking wine, 3 tablespoons of oil
How to make it:
1. Marinate the sliced beef with soy sauce and cooking wine for half an hour. p>2. Deseed and dice papaya;
3. Heat oil in a frying pan and stir-fry the marinated beef for 40 seconds over high heat;
4. Remove the beef from the pan and strain the oil back into the pan;
5. Stir-fry the diced papaya for a couple of minutes in the oil;
6. Serve the papaya on a plate with the slices of beef on top of the papaya.
Suggestion: You can use cooked papaya to stir-fry hot in the oil, but do not need to stir-fry too long.
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Papaya and scallop cup
Ingredients: papaya, scallop, ham, soup, salt and monosodium glutamate.
Method:
①Wash the papaya, cut, remove the flesh and seeds. Scallop with high soup with heat treatment to mature.
②Put the soup into each papaya, add scallop, ham, a little salt and monosodium glutamate, steamed on the polygonal steam for 40 minutes, plate on the table.
Features: soup fresh, fragrant nose, papaya sticky, scallop tender, beauty
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Papaya Chicken Soup
Materials: chicken thighs 1, medium-sized papaya half, 1 tablespoon of berries, 3 slices of angelica, wine and water in moderation.
Methods:
1, chicken thighs hot, papaya peeled and cut into chunks spare.
2, all the ingredients into the electric pot stew about 40 minutes can be.
Papaya is the most commonly used breast things, with the blood and blood Angelica and berries, not only can be red moist skin, but also has the role of making the breasts sharp, is a bottom fat refreshing but slightly sweet taste of the soup.
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Papaya Milkshake
Ingredients:
150 grams of papaya, 200 c.c. of milk (about 1 cup), vanilla ice cream (1 carton), 1 tsp. of sugar (can be added or not)
Preparation:
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1. Peel and cut papaya into pieces.
2. Put it into a juicer and add 200 c.c. fresh milk, sugar and ice cream in moderation, and mix it on medium speed for a few minutes.
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Papaya Boiled with Red Date and Lotus Seed
Ingredients: papaya, red date, lotus seed.
Seasoning: honey, rock sugar.
Practice:
1. Red dates, lotus seeds with the right amount of rock sugar boiled to be used.
2. Split the papaya and remove the seeds, put the red dates, lotus seeds, honey, on the cage can be steamed through.
Words of advice: papaya outer skin green, inner flesh orange-red, sweet flavor, suitable for all women who love beauty. When making this dessert, women who are worried about their weight can add calorie-free sweetener for flavor, and thin women can add honey for flavor.
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Papaya milk
is a popular drink that is quite popular in Taiwan. It is made in a variety of ways, and many other fruits can be added to the two main ingredients of papaya and milk. One of the more common recipes is: half a papaya, 1 egg yolk, 1 tbsp honey, 200 ml milk, half a lemon. Cut the papaya into cubes and juice it together with the milk and egg yolk, then add lemon juice and honey for a better flavor. If you add a little whisky, you can serve it as a drink for the main meal.
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Papaya tea
is also popular in Taiwan. The best way to make papaya tea is to use the round, unripe female fruit, cut one end flat for the bottom of the pot, cut the other end open, hollow out the seeds and then put in the tea directly, and then use the cut top as a lid to cover it, and then after a few minutes, you can savor a bitter-sweet papaya tea full of papaya's fresh aroma.
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Papaya rib cup
is a usual practice in Hainan. After hollowing out the papaya, put in four or five pork chops, add a little minced garlic, chili, oyster sauce, rice wine and other seasonings according to the taste of each family, and put it into a pot of stew for 40 minutes. When the pot is unveiled, it will be steaming hot, and the aroma of meat mixed with papaya will come to your nose. This dish is simple and practical, and is a home-cooked dish that can be made regularly. Alternatively, pork chops can be replaced with steak, lamb chops, etc.
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Baked Silver Snow Fish with Papaya in Chicken Sauce
Ingredients: 4 taels of papaya (fragrant and cooked enough) cut into day-old pieces; 6 taels of silver snow fish cut into day-old pieces. Chicken sauce 2 taels, chicken powder, monosodium glutamate, salt 1 money each.
Making: first papaya with hot water slightly soaked in water to keep. Fierce wok burning oil to about 160 degrees in high temperature into the silver snow fish fried until light golden brown separated from the oil. The head of the ingredients (green onion, green and red pepper corners) poured into the slightly explosive, add papaya, chicken sauce into two soup half catty, braised fire about 1 minute, then the seasoning into the silver snow fish, with a wok spatula rolling, braised fire half a minute can be served on the plate.
Features: appetizing, fragrant and delicious.
Key: papaya selection should be cooked, fragrant, silver snow fish should be gently hand turn, do not get rotten.
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Papaya Stewed Raw Fish
1 raw fish, 1 papaya, 2 almonds, 4 dates, 2 slices of ginger
1) Ingredients: 1 tbsp wine, 1 tsp salt, 5 cups of boiled water
1) Wash the raw fish, cut into two sections. Each section and then cut horizontally connected to the small sections, into the boiling water quickly blanch over the fish out.
2) raw fish, almonds, jujubes, ginger and (1) material into the stew pot, electric pot or steamer for half an hour.
3) Peel the papaya, remove the seeds and cut into pieces, put one into the cup and steam for another 10 minutes to serve.
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Papaya stewed steak
Materials: papaya 1, 200 grams of steak, garlic, chili a little, oyster sauce, broth, rice wine moderate.
Practice:
①With salt, corn flour and egg, marinate the steak for 4 hours first, then cut the steak into strips.
②Cut the papaya into strips and pass the oil over low heat first.
③Pop the frying pan with minced garlic and chili peppers, then add the steak to the pan, then add oyster sauce, stock and a little rice wine.
④Finally, thicken the sauce with tai bai powder, then add papaya and stir-fry for a while.
Effects: Papaya steak combines protein and vitamins. Beef is warm in nature, so it's a good idea to include the fruit in the dish to avoid dryness and heat. Beef is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and Vitamin A, while papaya has a lot of Vitamin C. Together, they make a well-balanced meal.
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North and South Apricot Papaya Stew
Materials: 1 raw papaya, 300 grams of pork ribs, 10 grams of North and South Apricot
Seasoning: 1/2 teaspoon of salt
Style:
1, raw papaya, remove the skin, Cut the ribs into half-inch cubes and set aside.
2. Blanch the baby back ribs in hot water for 2 minutes to remove the blood, then put them into a round cup and add papaya, apricots and water until it is 8 minutes full.
3, into the steam bellows steam 1 hour, add salt and then steam for 10 minutes.
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Cool Green Papaya
Ingredients:
1 raw papaya, 4 green chili peppers, 20g cilantro, 2 tbsp crushed peanuts, 1 tsp kai yang
Seasoning: (1) 1 tsp salt (2) ? tsp fish sauce, ? tsp sugar, ? tsp sugar. Tbsp sugar, 1/2 tsp sugar, 1 tbsp lemon juice
How to make it:
1. Peel and seed the raw papaya, cut it into thin strips, scrub it well with salt and marinate it for 30 minutes, then rinse it with water for 10 minutes and press the water out.
2, Kaiyang soaked, chopped; morning glory and cilantro washed, chopped.
3. Toss all ingredients with seasoning (2) and sprinkle with crushed peanuts.
Note: This dish is a very appetizing appetizer.
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Papaya Shark's Fin Bone
Ingredients:
150g of dried shark's fin bone, 400g of papaya, 250g of rock sugar, 75g of ginger, and about 1000g of water.
Method:
(1) First, soak the shark fin bone in water for 8 hours, and then change the water (the water should be changed 2 times during this period). Then the ginger with a knife pat broken, into the pot, with medium heat boil roll, end away from the fire, to be immersed in 5 hours, the ginger fish up to remove do not, and then filter the water dry, to be used.
(2) the papaya shaved melon skin, and then use a knife to open into the shape of the prongs to be used.
(3) with a stainless steel pot with a good shark's fin bone, put in the water, first with medium heat boil roll, then turn slow stew, about 1 hour 40 minutes, then add rock sugar and papaya, and then slow fire stew for 20 minutes, so that all the deepening of the rock sugar, into 10 small bowls that is completed.
Features: sweet and mellow viscous smooth, melon flavor lush fragrance.
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Papaya Clam Oil
Materials:
20 grams of clam oil, 250 grams of rock sugar, 500 grams of papaya, 50 grams of sugar, 1000 grams of water.
Method:
(l) the clam oil in a large bowl, first soak in 70 ℃ warm water, soak for about 2 hours, change the water (to be 2 consecutive soaking and water change). Then, then rinse with water, take out and pick off the black spots and impurities, wash and dry, put into a bowl, add 50 grams of sugar, 20 grams of water, put into the steamer, about cooking 1 hour 30 minutes, remove the filtered water, to be used.
(2) the skin of the papaya shaved off, with a knife into 6 strips, remove the seeds, and then, with a knife, cut into ribbons, put into the dinner plate, people steamer cook 8 minutes, remove for use.
(3) the frying tripod clean, put into the water, rock sugar boiling; rolling to the rock sugar all dissolved, and the soup surface appeared froth, the froth scooped off, and then has been steaming the clam oil, papaya pieces were sung into 10 small bowls, and then has been boiled sugar water dripping into the people that is.
Features: sweet, mellow and smooth, melon flavor.
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Green papaya roasted ribs
Materials:
Raw papaya half 600 grams of pork ribs 2 scallions Ginger 2 slices
Seasoning:
1. 3 tbsp soy sauce paste 1 tbsp wine 1 tbsp rock sugar 1 tbsp
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2. 1 tsp Vino Veritas 1 tsp Sesame oil
Method:
1. Peel the skin and seeds of raw papaya, wash and cut into chunks, and cut the baby back ribs into 2cm*2cm cubes.
2. Frying pan is hot, add 1/3 cup of oil and stir fry onion, ginger, into the rock sugar stir fry until golden brown, then into the small ribs stir fry until the skin is browned.
3. Add seasoning (1) and raw papaya to the pan and stir-fry, add water to cover all the ingredients, cover the pan with a lid and simmer on low heat for 45 minutes, then thicken the sauce with cornstarch and drizzle in a little sesame oil to remove from the pan.
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Abalone Shark's Fin and Papaya Boat
Main Ingredients: 150 grams of shark's fin, papaya, 500 grams of pig's feet, 500 grams of pork ribs, 600 grams of hen, 150 grams of pork rind, 100 grams of ham bone.
Accessories: ginger, green onion, wine.
Method: first take 150 grams of shuihaifa fins, put ginger, green onion, wine in the pot of boiling water, take out the cool with clear water; take a large sand pot, bamboo scotch pad bottom, put the whole of the shark's fins on the gabion, and then in the shark's fins on the mat of a bamboo scotch; pig's feet 500 grams, 500 grams of pork ribs, 600 grams of hen, 150 grams of pig skin, 100 grams of ham bone chopped into chunks, let go of the pot of blanching, over clear water, fish, and the whole of the shark's fins on the gabion. Water, over the water, pick up and drain, put on the shark's fin with bamboo pads, pour 2500 grams of light soup, seasoned wine, refined salt, into the bundled green onions, coriander head, cover the pot lid, boil and stew over medium-low heat for about 4 hours. Take papaya, flat cut off the top one-fourth, the remaining three-quarters of the papaya dug melon flesh, carved in the incision pattern, carved into a wooden boat model, the stewed shark's fins seasoned flavor into the wooden boat, and then into the steamer stewed for about 10 minutes until the papaya fragrance can be.
Features: "Abalone Shark's Fin and Papaya Boat" is another shark's fin dish in the new Chaozhou cuisine, which is characterized by its delicious taste and unique shape
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