SOM TUM (THAI GREEN PAPAYA SALAD)
 
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Recipe type: Salad
Cuisine: Thai
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
  1. In a large mortar, pound garlic and chilis with a pestle until there are no more big chunks (pieces of chili skin are fine).
  2. Add dried shrimp and peanuts and pound to break the peanuts up slightly.
  3. Add the long beans or green beans and pound just until they're slightly broken.
  4. Add palm sugar, mash until it turns into a paste and all the chunks are dissolved.
  5. Add tomatoes, mash gently until they release the juice.
  6. Add fish sauce, lime juice and tamarind paste.
  7. 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/