Main Dishes

Papaya with Meat Filling

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 30 mins
Total Time 30 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 6)

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoon oil, (vegetable oil)
  • 1 onion (s), small, finely chopped
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 450 g minced meat, beef or lamb
  • 4 tomato (s), peeled and chopped
  • 2 chilli pepper (s), chopped
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • Black pepper
  • 2 ½ kg papaya, halved and pitted
  • 25 g cheese, rated
Papaya with Meat Filling
Papaya with Meat Filling

Instructions

  1. Heat the oil in the pan, sauté the garlic and onions for 5 minutes, then add the mince and let it brown.
  2. Add tomatoes, chilli, salt and pepper, continue frying until the liquid has almost evaporated.
  3. Fill the meat mixture into papayas, place them in a baking dish. Fill up with so much boiling water that the papayas are about 2.5 cm high in the water. Then bake in the preheated oven at 180 ° C for 1 hour.
  4. Sprinkle with half of the cheese and bake for another 30 minutes.
  5. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese before serving.
  6. If you don`t like spicy food and prefer a mild flavor, you should only use 1/2 to 1 chilli pepper.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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