A wannabe Vietnamese Papaya Salad with papaya, cucumber, carrots, scallions, peanuts and crunchy lettuce served with a Vietnamese dressing made of lime, fish sauce and maple syrup. A famous salad in South-East Asia, all slightly different but made with the yummy green papaya! This version of Vietnamese Papaya Salad isn’t made with the green type of papaya, which is challenging to get your hands on in the Western world. So let’s call this salad a ‘Westernized papaya Salad’. I’ve used mature papaya; the inside was still orange even if its skin was half green. I’ve added a few crunchy lettuce pieces to bring the green papaya’s crunchiness to the salad! Green vs. Orange Payaya Is it the same fruit? Yes! It is picked up way ahead of its maturity; the flesh of the green papaya is light green, it tastes milder, and its texture is way firmer than mature papaya.…