Thai Green Papaya Salad Recipe (ส้มตำ), Som Tam
Recipe for Thai green papaya salad or som tam. Refreshing and invigorating, it shakes your very being with its intensely powerful combination of hot, sour, salty, savoury and sweet flavours, epitomising Thai cuisine and indeed the foods of some of its immediate neighbours
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Servings:
Calories: 212kcal
Ingredients
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tsp dried shrimp
- 1 red bird's eye chilli
- 5 green beans halved
- 3 cherry tomatoes halved
- 1 handful shredded green papaya
- ½-1 Tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tsp palm sugar
- fresh juice of 1 lime
- 1 Tbsp toasted peanuts
Garnish
- a few fresh mint or Thai basil leaves
Instructions
- Start by pounding and crushing the garlic.1 clove garlic
- Follow with the dried shrimp, pounding it down to break it up a little.1 tsp dried shrimp
- Next, add the chilli and green beans, pounding to bruise and to break up the chilli for heat.1 red bird's eye chilli, 5 green beans
- Add the tomatoes, crush lightly with the pestle, just to extract a little juice, we don't want them mushy.3 cherry tomatoes
- Finally, add the green papaya, ½ Tbsp fish sauce, the palm sugar and the lime juice. Mix it all up with a spoon and taste. Add more fish sauce if you'd like it saltier and more palm sugar if you think it needs it.1 handful shredded green papaya, ½-1 Tbsp fish sauce, 1 tsp palm sugar, fresh juice of 1 lime
- Top with the peanuts and mint or Thai basil and enjoy immediately.1 Tbsp toasted peanuts, a few fresh mint or Thai basil leaves
Nutrition
Calories: 212kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 56mg | Sodium: 2328mg | Potassium: 806mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 2337IU | Vitamin C: 186mg | Calcium: 106mg | Iron: 3mg
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