Recipe of Homemade Thai Green Papaya Salad / Som Tam

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Thai Green Papaya Salad / Som Tam is 3-4 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Thai Green Papaya Salad / Som Tam estimated approx 1 hr.

To begin with this particular 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 it.

#cppassport #cppthailand #cookpadindia One of the popular Thai Salad ! Love this Crunchy, Spicy, tangy, sweet and salty Salad . Basically the Umami flavour in Som Tam is given by the Fish sauce along with other condiments and seasoning so for a vegetarian version one may skip Fish sauce and substitute it with Soya Sauce. For authentic flavour one must use Fish sauce and Dried Shrimps but may skip due to preference.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make Thai Green Papaya Salad / Som Tam:

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

Instructions to make 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!

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