Spiced green papaya and roasted peanut salad

Name: Spiced green papaya and roasted peanut salad
Yield: Serves 4 as a Starter
Ingredients: 160 g bean sprouts; bunch of coriander, leaves picked; sea salt; 5 tbsp peanuts, roasted and crushed; 1½ tbsp dried shrimp, roughly chopped; 2½ tbsp fish sauce; 2 red chillies, deseeded and finely diced; 1 tbsp palm sugar (or soft brown sugar); juice of 2 limes; 4 plum tomatoes, halved, deseeded and cut into strips; 2 bird’s eye chillies, finely diced; 4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely diced; 1 large green papaya (about 300 g)

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a Starter

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gourmet Food for a Fiver

By Jason Atherton

Published 2010

About

I MAKE THIS THAI SALAD AT HOME A LOT - IT’S THE PERFECT DISH TO TOSS TOGETHER AND ENJOY WITH A CHILLED BEER. YOU CAN ADD SOME SHREDDED CHICKEN FOR A MORE SUBSTANTIAL SALAD IF YOU LIKE. GREEN PAPAYAS ARE AVAILABLE FROM CHINATOWN AND ASIAN FOOD STORES.

Ingredients

1 large green papaya (about 300 g)
4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely diced
2</

Starter
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Peel, halve and deseed the papaya, then shred the flesh finely.
Using a pestle and mortar, pound the garlic and chillies together to a paste. Add the dried shrimp and pound roughly. Add a handful of the papaya, crushing it roughly. Tip in the fish sauce, lime juice and sugar and pound together until the sugar is dissolved.
Transfer the pounded mixture