Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, thai green papaya salad / som tam. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Thai Green Papaya Salad / Som Tam is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Thai Green Papaya Salad / Som Tam is something which I have loved my whole life.

Find Great Deals from the Top Retailers. Thai green papaya salad, which in Thailand is known as as 'som tam' (ส้มตำ), is one of the most commonly available and most popularly consumed dishes in all of Thailand. Originating in the northeastern part of Thailand (Isaan), bordering the country of Laos, the dish is a staple for the entire area. Som Tam is a popular Thai salad featuring green papaya and a spicy chile pepper dressing.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have thai green papaya salad / som tam using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Thai Green Papaya Salad / Som Tam:

1. Take 400 gms Whole Green Raw Papaya
2. Take 3-4 Garlic cloves
3. Make ready 3-4 Red Thai Chillies
4. Prepare 2 tbsps Palm sugar / Gur powder / Brown sugar
5. Make ready 3-4 Long Beans / Barbatti or 5-6 French Beans
6. Get Handful Peanuts
7. Prepare 1 small dollop of Tamarind paste
8. Take 2-3 tbsps Lime juice
9. Prepare 2-3 tbsps Fish sauce
10. Prepare Handful Cilantro
11. Get 4 Cherry Tomatoes halved
12. Get as per need Dry Shrimps (I skip)

It can be made vegetarian or vegan by substituting the non-vegan ingredients. Roughly chop the garlic then add all the other ingredients into a mortar and pestle. Pound the ingredients until the papaya becomes soft. Serve immediately to avoid becoming soft.

Steps to make Thai Green Papaya Salad / Som Tam:

1. Peel and Julienne the raw green papaya. The Thai way by banging the knife on the papaya and thinly slicing it each time till you reach the centre seeded part, you have go around the papaya. Keep the Papaya julliene in icy chilled water to make it crispy. Then at the time of preparing, drain the water out.
2. In a mortar and pestle pound the garlic and chillies, add the palm sugar / Gur powder and pound again, then add the long beans roughly torn with hand about 1-2 inches or the blanched French beans and pound again. Then add the peanuts (half the quantity only) and dried shrimps,if you are adding, I skipped it, pound everything again. Then add the tamarind paste (seedless), fish sauce and lime juice and pound and mix again.
3. If you want you can add the lime peel also to release it's essential oil while pounding, which you can discard later on, I added Kaffir lime leaves for aroma which I discarded later. If your mortar and pestle is big enough to accomodate the papaya julliene,cilantro and Tomatoes add into it and again pound lightly with pestle just to mix and bruise the tomatoes a bit.
4. If not big then put papaya, tomato, cilantro in a big bowl and add the pounded condiment mixture in it, the way I did as my motar and pestle is small. Mix and bruise the tomatoes a bit so that it releases its juice and flavour. Put in in a serving bowl. Crush the remaining peanut roughly (no need to make powder) and garnish it and serve fresh!

Pound the ingredients until the papaya becomes soft. Serve immediately to avoid becoming soft. This basic Thai som tam recipe makes the popular Thai green papaya salad that you'll eat on the streets of Thailand. The spicy salad originally hailed from northeastern Thailand's Isaan region, but you'll find this street food favourite all over Thailand, and right across northern Southeast Asia. We also provide some tips for jazzing up a basic som tam.

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