Spicy papaya salad

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 1 m.-sized papaya, green, unripe or 2 ripe, but firm mangos
• 2 tomatoes
• 50 g peanuts, roasted, unsalted
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 red chili peppers
• 2 tsp shrimp paste or anchovy paste
• 1 tbsp palm sugar or brown sugar
• 3 tbsp fish sauce
• 4 tbsp lime juice
• 1 cucumber(s) and some leaves of iceberg lettuce for garnishing

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

Halve the papaya, remove the black seeds with a spoon, peel, and slice or grate into thin strips. Wash, trim, halve, and deseed the tomatoes, then cut into thin strips. Roughly chop the peanuts. Peel the garlic and chop very finely. Halve the chili peppers and deseed them. Cut into thin strips. Roughly puree the shrimp paste with 2 tablespoons of papaya strips, fish sauce, and sugar. Mix this paste well with the remaining ingredients, except for the lettuce leaves. Thinly slice the cucumber and add it. Season the salad with lime juice. Arrange the lettuce leaves on a platter or plate and top with the lettuce.