Thai Green Papaya Salad Recipe (ส้มตำ), Som Tam
Prep Time:
10 minutes
Total Time:
10 minutes
Recipe for Thai green papaya salad or som tam. Refreshing and invigorating, it shakes your very being with its intensely powerful combination of hot, sour, salty, savoury and sweet flavours, epitomising Thai cuisine and indeed the foods of some of its immediate neighbours
Author: Azlin Bloor
Serves 1
Category: Salad
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tsp dried shrimp
- 1 red bird's eye chilli
- 5 green beans, halved
- 3 cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 handful shredded green papaya
- half - 1 Tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tsp palm sugar
- fresh juice of 1 lime
- 1 Tbsp toasted peanuts
- a few fresh mint or Thai basil leaves
Garnish
Instructions
- Start by pounding and crushing the garlic.
- Follow with the dried shrimp, pounding it down to break it up a little.
- Next, add the chilli and green beans, pounding to bruise and to break up the chilli for heat.
- Add the tomatoes, crush lightly with the pestle, just to extract a little juice, we don't want them mushy.
- Finally, add the green papaya, half Tbsp fish sauce, the palm sugar and the lime juice. Mix it all up with a spoon and taste. Add more fish sauce if you'd like it saltier and more palm sugar if you think it needs it.
- Top with the peanuts and mint or Thai basil and enjoy immediately.
