Sauce-Baked Meatball Papaya Bowl
A creative low-calorie dish that uses a half-ripe papaya as a vessel, filled with green beans, hot pot meatballs, and a light salsa sauce, then baked au gratin.
Ingredients
Half-ripe papaya (peeled and deseeded, with a horizontal cut at the bottom)
1/2
Assorted hot pot meatballs
100 g
Green beans (trim ends and remove coarse fibers along both sides)
100 g
Shredded cheese
10 g
Salt (for blanching)
1 tsp
Low-calorie salsa
2 tbsp
Instructions
1
Prepare the papaya
Wrap the half-ripe papaya in aluminum foil.
2
Prepare the green beans
Blanch the green beans in salted boiling water, transfer to ice water, drain, and dice into small cubes.
3
Prepare the meatballs
Blanch the assorted hot pot meatballs in boiling water, then drain.
4
Assemble the filling
Place the diced green beans inside the papaya, add 1 tbsp of the low-calorie salsa, then add the meatballs from Step 3.
5
Finish the bake
Drizzle with the remaining salsa, top with the shredded cheese, place in a preheated oven, and bake for about 15 minutes until the cheese melts and turns golden.
