Cooking. Green papaya salad (Som Tam)

 

 

 

Serve 1~2

 

 

<Ingredients>

 

1 cup	shredded green papaya
1/4 cup	shredded carrots
1	long bean or green bean cut 1 inch width
3	cherry tomatoes or regular tomatoes (cut big chunk)
1 tablespoon	dried shrimps
3 tablespoons	roasted peanuts
2	bird's eye chilies
4~5 cloves	garlic
2 tablespoons	palm sugar or brawn sugar
2 tablespoons	fish sauce
1 1/4 tablespoon	lime juice or lemon juice
1 tablespoon	tamarind paste

 

 

 

 

<Method>

 

 

1. pound garlic, dried shrimps, chilies and peanuts in the clay mortar and use the wooden pestle pound together. (tenderly)

2. Add long bean and cherry tomatoes, pound a few times just to bruise the bean and get the juice out of tomatoes.

3. Season with lime juice, palm sugar, fish sauce and tamarind paste.

4. Add papaya and carrots use the wooden pestle to push the mixture up in the mortar and spatula to push it down so that the mixture is mixed well.

5. Serve with fresh vegetables and sticky rice. 

 

 

 

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