SOM TUM (THAI GREEN PAPAYA SALAD)
Author: Mink
Recipe type: Salad
Cuisine: Thai
Serves: 4
- 4 cups shredded green papaya
- 4 cloves garlic
- 4-5 Thai chilis (more or less depends on how you love the heat)
- 2-3 dried red Thai chilis (optional)
- 2 tablespoons palm sugar (or brown sugar)
- 2 long beans (or green beans), cut into 2-inch pieces
- 3 tablespoons unsalted roasted peanuts
- 2 tablespoons small dried shrimp
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 tablespoons tamarind paste (tamarind concentrate)
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 5 cherry tomato halves or a small tomato cut into wedges
- In a large mortar, pound garlic and chilis with a pestle until there are no more big chunks (pieces of chili skin are fine).
- Add dried shrimp and peanuts and pound to break the peanuts up slightly.
- Add the long beans or green beans and pound just until they're slightly broken.
- Add palm sugar, mash until it turns into a paste and all the chunks are dissolved.
- Add tomatoes, mash gently until they release the juice.
- Add fish sauce, lime juice and tamarind paste.
- Add shredded papaya and mix using the pestle to pound and large spoon to mix everything together. Enjoy!
Recipe by Let's Cook Some Food at https://www.letscooksomefood.com/som-tum-thai-green-papaya-salad/
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