Som Tum Papaya Salad
Total time:
25 minutes
Total time:
25 minutes
The Som Tum Papaya Salad is one of my childhood favorites. It has every flavor under the sun: Spicy! Sour! Sweet! Salty! And braver souls looking to go the distance can kick it up even more by adding shrimp paste. For a full meal, serve with sticky rice and barbecued chicken. YUM! TIP: Green papaya can be a bit difficult to find, so if there’s no papaya in sight and you’re really craving these flavors, you can always substitute with a carrot.
Ingredients
Preparation
Step 1
Combine dried shrimp, garlic cloves, cherry tomatoes, Thai chilis and palm sugar in the mortar bowl and gently pound with pestle
Step 2
Add fresh lime to mortar and gently pound
Step 3
Add green beans and peanuts, gently pound
Step 4
Add julienned papaya to mortar bowl, top with a large drizzle of fish sauce and continue to pound gently
Step 5
When ingredients have thoroughly combined, the salad will have achieved a balanced flavor profile of sweet, salty, spicy and sour
Step 6
Serve with sticky rice