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papaya's flower sautee

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As an Indonesian, especially Acehnese, I was raised up in a big family, where My Mom would cooks a complete dishes everyday. Which mean, you got fishes or meat, chilli sauce, veggie and fruit on your dining table every lunch and dinner time. Mom used to cook 3-4 kind of foods but there's always veggie dish. We eat everything altogether in one plate. I remembered our hard time when My Father continued his study in West Java for a few months, I often sent to collect water spinach from a swamp near our house, which now became a Mosque. I'll cook the water spinach sautee and make omelette from our muscovies eggs for the whole family (we're only 7 at that times; Mom; Father's nephew; A big brother; A Big Sister; Me; a lil brother and 3 years old lil sissy). One of the veggies dishes that I don't really like are Spinach stew and any veggies with bitter taste, like Papaya's flower.

I like all veggies when I grew up and thanks to My Mom who cooks delicious foods for us and let me learned from her about cooking just by helping her preparing the foods. I think all 9 of us really know how to cooking our own meals. I've never been so into cooking until I married in 20016, because Hubby likes to make special requests for some dishes. I learned the basic cooking from My Mom and it's about time to practice all my knowledge and started the kitchen adventures!

Enough about me and let's see my kitchen adventure for #fruitsandveggiesmonday by @lenasveganliving this week. If you want to know more, Please do Check on this post >> STEEMIT FRUITS AND VEGGIES MONDAY COMPETITION 🍒 🍌🍑🌿🍍🍓🍇

PAPAYA'S FLOWER STIR-FRY AKA BITTER VEGGIE STIR-FRY

As you know, not all papaya's tree produce fruits. The male gives off multiple flowers in long stems

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When The Vegetables seller stopped by in front of the shop, My Hubby told that He wants the Papaya Flower Buds on his lunch menu, so I grab one bag (about 100 grams flower buds) happily. He said that he wanted it sautéed. Yes.. that's so simple 😉. Let's head to the kitchen (@pehteem was not around, so nobody would documenting the process, I need to do it myself😊).

What you need?

• 100 grams Papaya Flower buds (washed)
• 2 clove of garlics (sliced)
• half of onion (sliced)
• a slice of ginger
• 4 tsp cooking oil
• salt
• 2 cayenne peppers (more if you like it hottest, sliced)

I like to add kaffir lime leaves almost on any sautèed veggies😊, smell good

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How To..

stir-fry the onion, then garlic, ginger and cayenne pepper for a minute

add the papaya's flower buds in and stir it up for 3 minutes

add 150 ml water and let simmer for 10 minutes till the water reduced, then add the salt, taste it before turning off the heat

now it's done 😉 we eat this with hot rice and fried anchovies and chili sauces

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My FIIL wants smoothie before lunch!

He bought a medium size melon and I just use one third

I have a cucumber stock for my cold grated cucumber today's menu at the shop

heeyy.. we have raspberries from father's outing time to Puncak, West Java

I grated the melon and cucumber, add some raspberries. All I have is blender, so be it

for My FIL

for My Forever Stalker😍

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Done my best for My Guys and so happy when I saw them emptied the glass within a minute😂

Thanks for stopping By and Thank you @lenasveganliving for once again keep the #fruitsandveggiesmonday's competition going😍😙