WET PAPAYA SWEET ( Manisan Pepaya Basah )

Some papayas in my backyard has already a half ripe and sometime I just let them rotten , "ooo"... really feel guilty , I waste free papaya in my home easily while in other places or even other country the papaya's price is expensive , beside that the papaya contains of high levels of  antioxidant nutrients such as Vitamin A and Vitamin C. Based on the numerous research studies,  the vitamin C from Papaya is 48 times more than apple, the papaya also very good to maintain our skin , so that's why some cosmetic's product using papaya as its ingredient.

Since I am getting bored with the fresh ripen papaya, recently, I just made one of my favorite dessert in my childhood, Papaya Sweet. This kind of sweet, used to be found from food vendor who dropped by my Elementary School. Then, I browsed some recipe how to make the Papaya Sweet. Here, I prefer to make wet  Papaya Sweet  to dry  papaya Sweet due to lacking of sunshine in this rainy season. And  its taste, close to what I wish.






Ingredients :
- 1 piece of a-half-ripe -papaya which already peeled of and wash it under clean water
- 500 gr granulated sugar
- 1 tea spoon of salt
- 1 lemon
- 1 table spoon of limestone that diluted by 500 ml water
- 4 pieces of Cinnamon / 3 table spoon of  Cinnamon powder

Directions :

1.Cut the papaya into 4 , you can use the usual knife, but here I was using jagged knife which usually for cutting pudding.

2.Dip the papaya in solution of limestone until  24 hours

3.Wash and rinse ,then drain the papaya , add 250 gr granulated sugar. 

   stir until smooth , wait for one hour

4.Boil the left of granulated sugar, add lemon , salt and Cinnamon. Put the papaya, wait until a half soft. Turn out the stove, keep it for 24 hours.Removed the Papaya from the solution. Then boil, its solution , put the papaya in it. Again wait until 24 hours to make the solution seep through. You can repeat it this step until 3 or 4 times, if you want the sweet more tasty and more durable. 

P.S.  For dry Papaya Sweet, after the step above, dry the papaya under the sun or put in oven.

You must be aware of the papaya latex, because can cause itchy in your skin especially for sensitive skin, so wash with water directly, if the latex on your skin.