Green Papaya Salad

Name: Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 1 medium green papaya (about 2 pounds), peeled and coarsely grated (discard seeds and membrane), or 4 cups coarsely grated carrots (just under 1 pound); 1 medium green papaya (about 2 pounds), peeled and coarsely grated (discard seeds and membrane), or 4 cups coarsely grated carrots (just under 1 pound); 2 plum tomatoes, coarsely chopped; 1 to 2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce; ¼ head green cabbage, cored and cut into thin wedges; Leaf lettuce or romaine, torn into 2-inch pieces; Leaf lettuce or romaine, torn into 2-inch pieces; ½ pound long beans (optional); 1 tablespoon raw peanuts, dry-roasted and coarsely chopped; 2 bird chiles or serrano chiles, finely chopped; 1 large clove garlic; ¼ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon palm sugar, or substitute brown sugar, or to taste; ¼ cup fresh lime juice; 2 bird chiles or serrano chiles, finely chopped; ½ teaspoon palm sugar, or substitute brown sugar, or to taste; 1 tablespoon dried shrimp, or substitute ¼ pound medium shrimp, shelled and deveined; 1 tablespoon dried shrimp, or substitute ¼ pound medium shrimp, shelled and deveined; 1 tablespoon dried shrimp, or substitute ¼ pound medium shrimp, shelled and deveined

Som Tam

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seductions of Rice

By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

Published 1998

About

Som tam is as popular in Thailand as green mangoes and Thai boxing, and that’s popular. It has its roots in the villages of northeast Thailand, where green (unripe) papayas are cheap and abundant, yet it regularly appears on the menus of Bangkok’s finest restaurants. It is traditionally pounded in a large Thai mortar to blend it, thus softening the green papaya and tomato and marrying the different textures and flavors, but it works perfectly well when assembled in a large bowl. Gree

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Asia
Thailand
Side dish
Pescatarian
South East Asia
Gluten-free

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