Recipe: Thai Green Papaya Salad
Summary: Spicy Green Papaya Salad (som tum or som tam) is a popular dish from the North Eastern part of Thailand (the largely rural Isan region) that combines spicy, sour and sweet flavors to make a classic dish.
Ingredients
- 8-12 Thai chillies (bird peppers), each cut into 3-4 segments
- 8 cloves garlic, peeled and cut each into 2-3 pieces
- 2 Tbs. small dried shrimp
- 4 cups julienned peeled unripe green papaya – in strips 2-3 inches long and 1/8 inch thick
- 1 cup cut long beans – 1 1/2-inch-long segments (or substitute with regular green beans)
- 1 julienned carrot (optional)
- 1/4 cup tamarind juice the thickness of fruit concentrate
- Juice of 2-3 limes, to taste
- 2-3 Tbs. fish sauce, to taste
- 2-3 Tbs. palm sugar, melted with 1 Tbs. water into a thick syrup – use as needed
- 2 small tomatoes, cut into bite-size wedges; or 12 cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/4 cup chopped unsalted roasted peanuts
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