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Green Papaya Salad (som tam)

Green Papaya Salad (som tam) Prep time: 10 mins 
Cooking time: -

Ingredients

  • 1 garlic clove, peeled
  • 3-4 bird's eye chillies
  • 1 tbsp dried shrimp (optional)
  • 6 French beans (cut into 2cm lengths)
  • 1 tbsp salted roasted peanuts
  • 2 tsp palm sugar or muscovado sugar (granulated sugar is fine as an alternative)
  • 1 1/2 tbsp Blue Dragon Fish Sauce
  • 1 1/2 tbsp lime juice
  • 3 cherry tomatoes (chopped in half)
  • 70g green papaya, finely shredded
  • 20g carrot - finely shredded

Serves: 2

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Green Papaya Salad (som tam)

A delicious crunchy exotic salad using the unripe papaya, or 'green' papaya. This is a typical salad enjoyed by Thai people all over Thailand.

Preparation:

  1. In a mortar, roughly pound the garlic and chillies.
  2. When crushed to a rough paste, add the dried shrimps (or omit if unavailable) and pound until smooth.
  3. Add the beans and peanuts and pound, until the beans are bruised and the peanuts are roughly crushed.
  4. Add the sugar, Fish Sauce and lime juice and stir together. Add the tomatoes and bruise gently with the pestle.
  5. In a large mixing bowl place the shredded green papaya and shredded carrot and mix in the dressing. Ideal served with grilled meats.

Useful tip:

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In thailand they use a wooden pestle and mortar to make this dish, as it enables the cook to bruise the vegetables more gently.

If you can't get hold of a papaya, you can use a cucumber instead.

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Reviews for Green Papaya Salad (som tam)


JeanD   04 July 2011

I rate this as 4 as its tasty and healthy. I think there should be a veggie option though. Not sure what could be substituted for fish sauce.

KarolynH   01 June 2010

I love this dish-it is very easy to prepare and a healthy meal the whole family can enjoy.

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