How To Make Green Papaya Salad
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How To Make Green Papaya Salad
In this step by step cookery guide Chef Geoff explains how to make green papaya salad or Som Tam, a very popular Thai dish. Bring the taste of Thailand right into your own home with this great recipe.
- Prep:
- 15m
- Total:
- 15m
- Serves:
- 2
Ingredients
- 4 cherry tomatoes
- 1 tsp palm sugar
- 5 green beans
- 2 tbsp dried shrimp
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 thai birds eye chilli pepper
- 1 lime
- 3 tbsp toasted peanuts
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 green papaya
- 1/2 carrot
Step 1: Make The Dressing
Chop up 2 cloves of garlic and put them into a pestle and mortar with a little salt, then mash into a paste. Add in 1 tsp of palm sugar and 4 cherry tomatoes cut in half to the pestle and mortar, then add 5 green beans cut into 1 inch pieces. Pound these ingredients a little to release the juices. Add 2 tbsp dried shrimp, 2 tbsp fish sauce and 1 chopped Thai birds eye chili and pound again.
Step 2: Adding Vegetables
Add the shredded papaya and carrot, the juice of 1 lime and 3 tbsp toasted peanuts to the bowl and mix well.