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Green papaya and garden vegetable salad with papaya vinaigrette

Green papaya and garden vegetable salad with papaya vinaigrette


To celebrate the Chinese New Year, the Chefs from Le Cordon Bleu suggest a refreshing starter with Asian influences.

Serve: 4

Ingredients

Green papaya and garden vegetable salad
  • 100 g French green beans
  • salt
  • 100 g pink radish
  • 200 g green papaya
  • 150 g soybean sprouts
  • 1 Granny Smith apple
  • 100 g carrots
  • 100 g zucchini
Papaya Vinaigrette
  • ½ green papaya
  • 1 orange, juiced
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 passion fruit
Decoration
  • chervil

Method

Green papaya and garden vegetable salad

Cook the green beans in boiling salted water until tender. Refresh immediately in ice water, strain and place on a clean towel to drain. Slice the radish into thin rounds. Cut the papaya, apple, carrots and zucchini into julienne. Combine all elements in a bowl, set aside.

Papaya vinaigrette

Cut the half papaya into a brunoise. In a bowl, whisk the orange and lemon juice. Gradually whisk in the oil. Cut the passion fruit in half. Remove the pulp and seeds with a spoon and add to the vinaigrette with the papaya brunoise.

To serve

Toss salad with a little of the papaya vinaigrette and place a mound on a plate. Drizzle with remaining papaya vinaigrette. Garnish with chervil and passion fruit shell if desired.

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