Thai Papaya Salad

Ingredients for 3 servings:

• 200 g papaya, green peeled, grated or cut into fine strips
• 2 garlic cloves
• 3 small chili peppers, more to taste
• 2 beans (long beans), each cut into 2 cm pieces
• 2 tbsp shrimp, dried
• 3 tbsp fish sauce
• 2 tbsp lime juice
• some palm sugar
• 1 tomato(s), chopped
• 2 tbsp peanuts, roasted

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 15 minutes

Som Tam

The key ingredient in this dish is unripe, green papaya. The result isn’t a fruit salad, but a very spicy, hearty salad. It’s best to use a mortar and pestle. Roughly crush the garlic, chilies, and long beans in a mortar and pestle. Add the papaya and roughly crush. Add the dried shrimp, fish sauce, lime juice, and palm sugar, and continue to pound lightly. Add the tomatoes and roughly crush. Add the peanuts and season with more lime juice and palm sugar. Serve with sticky rice. P.S. I usually replace the long beans with grated carrots. I don’t always add the dried shrimp to the salad; it tastes good without them, too.