Papaya platters

Papaya is a very healthy fruit eaten either ripe or green. The grenn or raw fruit can be cooked like any lauki dish, but is also delicious served as an accompaniment or relish.1, Peel ,remove seeds and pith and grate a raw papaya. Apply haldi, salt, hing powder. Add slivers of ginger and green chillies. Heat a little oil. Put a tadka of black rai, whole red dry chillies and curry patta and pour over the papaya. Mix well and serve.2. Peel a papaya. Remove seeds and pith and cut into paper thin slices, 21\2 "-3" long. Apply haldi, salt lemon juice, and mustard paste ( optional), and keep aside for 1\2 hour or more Mix in some slivers of green chillies. Heat oil-preferably mustard- and give tadka of either meti dana or jimmu. Mix well and serve.3. Peel and cut green papaya into 1" slices not too thin. Mix with haldi, salt lemon juice. Add clices of green chillies cut on a slant. Keep aside for some time. Roast some sesame seeds ( til seeds ) with dry red chillies. Grind to a paste with garlic, ginger and timur ( seschswan pepper ) Mix this paste nicely into the papaya. Heat oil- pref. mustard- and give tadka of methi dana or jimmu Mix well and serve.4. Peel and cut a ripe papaya into 1" cubes. and semi mash. Add sugar to taste. Add sliced grapes, both green and black, some chopped walnuts. Mix well and fold in dairy cream or malai. Decorate with anardana, cherries etc. Serve cold.