Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking time: -
Ingredients
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- 70g
green papaya, finely shredded
- 20g
carrot, finely shredded
- 1
garlic clove, peeled
- 4
bird's eye chillies
- 6
French beans (cut into 2cm lengths)
- 1 tbsp
salted roasted peanuts
- 3
cherry tomatoes (chopped in half)
- 1 tbsp
dried shrimp (optional)
- 2 tbsp
palm sugar or muscovado sugar (granulated sugar is fine as an alternative)
- 1 1/2 tbsp
Blue Dragon Thai Fish Sauce
- 1 1/2 tbsp
lime juice
Serves: 2
Try this recipe with
Minced Garlic
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:
- In a mortar, roughly pound the garlic and chillies.
- When crushed to a rough paste, add the dried shrimps (or omit if unavailable) and pound until smooth.
- Add the beans and peanuts and pound, until the beans are bruised and the peanuts are roughly crushed.
- Add the sugar, fish sauce and lime juice and stir together. Add the tomatoes and bruise gently with the pestle.
- 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:
It’s important to keep tasting when cooking Thai food... more
In thailand they use a wooden pestle and mortar to make this dish, as it enables the cook to bruise the vegetables more gently.