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Ingredients and seasonings used for make
- Use Vegetables:
- Prepare 1 small green papaya, peeled and shredded
- Take 2 carrots, shredded
- Prepare 1/2 cucumber, shredded (optional)
- Prepare 2 teaspoons dried shrimp (optional, or leave out for a vegetarian alternative)
- Prepare Sauce:
- Prepare 3-4 red or green bird’s eye chillies or 5-7 finger chillies (more mild)
- Take 2 garlic cloves
- Prepare 3 tablespoons palm sugar (or granulated sugar)
- Prepare 2 yard-long beans (or green beans), cut into 2.5cm (optional)
- Prepare 4 cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
- Prepare Juice of 2 fresh lime (or tamarind paste mixed with water)
- Prepare 2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce (or 2 teaspoons salt or light soya sauce)
- Use Garnish:
- Prepare Handful salted or roasted peanuts (optional)
It is little lemony, little sweet, little fishy, little crunchy and just a little chilly. Serve Thai Som Tum Recipe as a side dish along with Vegetarian Thai Red Curry and Steamed Rice for a weekend dinner. If you like this recipe, you can also try other Thai recipes such as Creamy Thai Sweet Potato Curry Recipe Thai. In a large som tum mortar, place garlic, green beans, dried shrimp, peanuts and chillies.
Step by step to make Som tum (Thai green papaya salad):
- Prepare all of the ingredients, shred the green papaya, carrots and cucumber (optional) using a shredder. Cut the beans (optional) tomatoes and lime and set aside.
- In a pestle and mortar roughly pound and bash the chillies and garlic together. Add the palm sugar, beans (optional), tomatoes and dried shrimp (optional). Then lightly pound all the ingredients together to combine.
- Squeeze in lime juice (or tamarind paste mixture) and fish sauce. Again lightly pound (avoid over bashing the ingredients). Add the sauce to the mixing bowl with the green papaya, carrot and cucumber (optional). Mix with a spoon to combine and incorporate all of the ingredients and taste. Tip: it should be sweet, salty and also have a sharp, sour and spicy tang (adjust as needed, add more lime for tang, sugar for sweetened, fish sauce for saltiness etc).
- Transfer the somtum salad into a serving bowl. Garnish and sprinkle over the peanuts (optional).
- Done and ready to serve!
Use a wooden pestle to bruise ingredients. Add the shredded papaya, fish sauce, lime juice and sugar. Use a spoon and the pestle to mix and bruise the salad. Then add tomatoes and bruise again. Peel the skin off of the papaya.
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