Thai Papaya Salad Recipe (Som Tam)
Thai Papaya Salad or Som Tam is
popular throughout Southeast Asia. It's a refreshing,
healthy salad that combines sweet, sour, salty, and spicy into one harmonious
dish. Making Papaya Salad is more of an art than a science, and you will quickly
settle on your own balance of ingredients to make it to your taste. This recipe
is designed to be a good starting point to try out
first.
Everyone has their own recipe, and word of
street vendors who make good Papaya Salad gets around quickly and they build a
loyal following, much like pizza places in the west.
Papaya salad has three basic
types:
- Som Tam Thai, which has
roasted peanuts mixed in it. (this recipe)
Som Tam Thai - Som Tam Bu, which has
pickled crabs pounded in it.
Som Tam Bu - Som Tam Pa Ra, which has the juice of pickled mud-fish in it.
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| Som Tam Pa Ra |
My personal favorite Papaya Salad is Som Tam Lao
and Som Tam Thai. My mom likes Som Tam Lao and she's from
Issan (North East Thailand) and my dad likes Som Tam Thai, he's from from
Central Thailand so I got to eat and make both kinds growing up. Pickled
mud-fish is definately an acquired taste, so we've decided to present the peanut
version instead.
Papaya Salad really needs to be prepared
using a mortar and pestle. When I was a little girl, my mom
told me if I broke the mortar while making Papaya Salad, I have to dance around
the outside of the house as punishment, so be careful because Americans have big
houses.
Recipe Info.
- For: 1-2
- Preparation time: 10 minutes
- Cooking Time: 5 minutes
Utensils
- Mortar
- Pestle
Ingredients
- 1 clove of garlic
- 2 chilies - or as much as you like.
- ¼ cup roasted peanuts
- ½ cup tomatos
- ½ cup green beans
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 tablespoons palm sugar
- 2 tablespoons of fish sauce
- 2 cups of shredded green papaya
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Preparation
Serve
- Shred green papaya
- Slice tomatos
- Chop green beans
- Slice Lime
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- Put garlic and chili peppers into mortar, smash it into small pieces
- Add peanuts, smash it into small pieces
- Add palm sugar, pound it until it mixes well together
- Add lime, fish sauce, pound it until it mixes well
- Add green papaya and green bean and pound until it mixes well
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- Garnish with roasted
peanuts
SOM TAM
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