It’s high summer here in Wisconsin which means just one thing when it come to feeding our family: Grilling. Weather. I was looking for some papaya recipes to accompany a grilled jerk chicken and I totally hit paydirt with this simple papaya salsa. If you’re looking to mix up your salsa game a bit then you are in luck.

This chunky salsa recipe makes for a great appetizer or garnish.

Papaya Salsa Recipe

Name: Papaya Salsa Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 2 Papaya (Peeled, seeded, cut into 1/2 chunks); 2 Scallions (fine chop); 3 Garlic Cloves (fine chop); 1 Shallot (fine chop); 2 Limes (for fresh lime juice); 1 pinch Kosher salt; Black pepper (to taste); 3 tbsp Cilantro (fine chop)

Confession time. This is my first of what I feel certain is going to be many papaya recipes. Holy delicious! You can actually taste the fun in your mouth with this papaya salsa

Lime juice is the main liquid in the papaya recipe from Platter Talk food blog.

This papaya recipe starts off with a lime and a cutting board.

Ingredients for this Papaya Recipe

Papaya
Lime juice
Garlic
Ginger
Shallots
Scallions
Cilantro
Whole Cloves
Chili Pepper
Salt and Pepper

Macertaing the ingredients of papaya salsa will help mellow the tones.

Macerate the garlic, scallions and pepper in fresh lime juice.

To Make this Chunky Salsa Recipe

Use a small bowl and squeeze the juice out of couple of lime. That tangy goodness is going to help the other ingredients get better acquinted. Next chop up everything else except for the papaya and toss those ingredients in with the fresh lime juice. Mascerting the harsher aromatics like the garlic and scallions will take away their sharp edge and replace it with a mellow and pleasing finsish.

Use a rolling pin to crush whole cloves.

Crushing whole cloves is easy to do with a rolling pin.

Most of us have ground cloves in our pantry and you may even have whole cloves sitting there as well. You can use the ground cloves if you’re in a pinch but you’ll get whole higher element of taste by using freshly crushed cloves instread. How do you crush whole cloves? Enter the rolling pin, into this recipe process!

This recipe uses a couple of papayas.

Slice the papaya in half, scrape out the seeds and then peel the skin off with a pearing knife. Experiment and see if it’s easier for you to skin the papaya before slicing it in half. Doing it as I show in the photo above works best for me. The next thing you’ll do is dice the papaya into chunks, about a half inch in size.

Add the diced papaya to the other ingredients.

You’re almost finished at this point which is a good thing because things really take a sharp turn toward the delicious side. Grab a chip or tasting spoon and have a little sample of what’s in the bowl. Need more salt? A few more cloves? A touch more of cilantro? How about a little more ground pepper. As I always say when in the kitchen, “Make it your own!”

You can eat papaya salsa with chips or use as a garnish.

Enjoy this papaya salsa with chips or as a garnish for grilled meat of seafood.

We’re pretty big fans of salsas and have made a few other similar recipes that I think you might enjoy. These include:

Looking for more Papaya Recipes? Here are just a few that I think you might like!