Papaya Salad Som Tam
From tanwiratchada 14 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 2
This green papaya salad, come from North East Thailand and known as "Som Tam" is popular in most areas of Thailand, and when you taste it, you'll know why. Want to try?? ;)
Ingredients
- 2 cups mango or carrots or raw papaya or cabbage or cucumber, shredded shopping list
- 3 Fresh bird's eye chili peppers, shopping list
- 4 tbsp unsalted, toasted peanuts, coarsely ground shopping list
- 5-6 tsp dry shrimps, shopping list
- 1 Sea crab (if you like) In Thailand we use salted crab. shopping list
- 1/4 cup fish sauce shopping list
- 1 tbsp brown sugar shopping list
- 1/2 cup lime juice shopping list
- 2 cloves garlic chopped shopping list
How to make it
- To make the dressing, combine all the dressing ingredients together and set aside.
- Grate the carrots or any of the vegetables mentioned above, rinse in cold water and drain well.
- Toss the salad with the salad dressing adding the creshed bird's eye chili peppers should your salad spicy.
- Add a teaspoon of the peanuts and ground shrimps and toss thoroughly.
- Taste and plate the salad and garnish with ground peanuts and ground shrimps.
- Tips.-
- It is recommended that once this salad is tossed it should be eaten immediately since Thai salad dressings do not have oils which help salads stay fresh longer.
- For westerner I suggestion try to use only 1 fresh chilli at first and you can try more next time.
- Do you know that the flesh and oil from papaya is used to make meat tenderizers? NO wonder it helps your digestion.
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Luv Thai food - or at least what I can get in restaurants here. Hope I can duplicate the same authentic taste at home. Thank you for sharing the recipe :)
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