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Green Papaya Salad - Som TamA traditional raw salad with a mildly spicy seasoning. Unripe papaya is firm fleshed so make sure you slice it thinly.Ingredient Make 1 serving
4 green bird's-eye chillies 30g beans or French beans, cut into 2cm pieces 20g dried shrimps 2 tbsp palm sugar 3 tbsp fish sauce 3 tbsp lemon juice 60g cherry tomatoes, quartered 30g roasted peanuts 200g unripe green papaya, peeled and grated into long, thin strips FOR THE GARNISH Green salad leave 
In a mortar, roughly pound the garlic and chillies.
Add the beans and pound, then the shrimps and pound again until crushed. Add the sugar, fish sauce and lemon juice and stir together. Add the tomatoes and press with the pestle. Add the peanuts and the papaya and stir until well mixed in. Serve cold in a round dish lined with the salad leaves. |
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