Green pawpaw salad

Name: Green pawpaw salad
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: chopped fresh coriander or mint leaves, to garnish; 2 teaspoons chilli paste; 3 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 1 tablespoon Thai fish sauce (nam pla); 1 tablespoon Thai fish sauce (nam pla); 1 green pawpaw, peeled, deseeded and cut into 1 cm /½ inch pieces; 50 g/2 oz fine green beans, blanched and cut into 2.5 cm/1 inch pieces; 4 ripe tomatoes, skinned, deseeded and chopped; chopped fresh coriander or mint leaves, to garnish; 3 tablespoons unsalted roasted peanuts, chopped; 1 tablespoon Demerara or palm sugar; 1 tablespoon Demerara or palm sugar; juice of 1 lime; 6 dried shrimps

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keith Floyd's Thai Food

By Keith Floyd

Published 2006

About

Ingredients

1 green pawpaw, peeled, deseeded and cut into 1 cm /½ inch pieces
3 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
2 teaspoons

Asia
Thailand
Gluten-free
Pescatarian
Street Food

Method

Put 1 tablespoon of the pawpaw, the garlic, chilli paste, fish sauce, sugar, dried shrimps and lime juice in a food processor and whiz to a paste.
Put the rest of the pawpaw, the tomatoes, green beans and peanuts in a bowl and stir in the paste (if necessary add a litt