Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, som tum salad (thai papaya salad). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Som Tam is a popular Thai salad featuring green papaya and a spicy chile pepper dressing. The multitude of flavors from this salad explode in your mouth—sweet, tart, crunchy, and a touch of spiciness—the perfect side dish or a light entree. Traditionally, Som Tam is pounded with a mortar and pestle, which can be fun at times. It is commonly understood that green papaya salad which is called som tum thai in Thailand, is actually a dish from Laos.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have som tum salad (thai papaya salad) using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Som tum Salad (Thai papaya salad):
- Take raw papaya, 1⁄2 swede or khorabi
- Make ready carrots
- Make ready small bag of french beans
- Prepare baby red tomatoes
- Get small bag of salted peanut or cashew nuts
- Make ready Limes
- Take brown sugar or palm sugar
- Prepare Thai Birdseye red chillies
- Make ready fish sauce
- Get garlic
Cut papaya in half and, using a spoon, scrape out and discard seeds. Our popular Som Tum salad combines shredded green papaya, Thai chili, green beans, cherry tomatoes, dried baby shrimp, carrots, green beans, and roasted peanuts in a tangy lime sauce. If that's not enough to get your mouth watering, we don't know what will! Across Thailand, you'll find similar combinations of these papaya salad ingredients.
Steps to make Som tum Salad (Thai papaya salad):
- Use the vegetable crinkle peeler to peel carrot and papaya.
- Cut up French beans, tomatoes, lime juice, garlic and chilli
- On medium heat, put peanuts or cashew nut on small pan to roast them for a few minutes
- Pound garlic and chilli in pestle and mortar then add some beans, tomatoes, sauce base, lime juice and fish sauce
- 5. Add some roasted peanuts and papaya and carrot then mix well
If that's not enough to get your mouth watering, we don't know what will! Across Thailand, you'll find similar combinations of these papaya salad ingredients. There is a variation of Green Papaya Salad, named Som Tum Thai, which does not include any Pla Ra, and this is often preferred by tourists visiting Thailand, as Pla Ra is something of an acquired taste. There are also some regional differences to Green Papaya Salad. Marion's Kitchen is packed with simple and delicious Asian recipes and food ideas.
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