Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad
Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, som tum / thai papaya salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Authentic recipe and step-by-step video tutorial for the classic Thai green papaya salad by Pailin Chongchitnant, author of the Hot Thai Kitchen Cookbook. Here is a new and improved recipe for the famous northeastern Thai green papaya salad! This time around, I provide you with lots of tricks, tips.

Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook som tum / thai papaya salad using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad:
  1. Get 1/2 cup green papaya,thinny sliced
  2. Make ready 2 chilli (said 2 minimum,add more if you like spicy..mine about 10 up)
  3. Take 2 clove garlic
  4. Take 1/2 tsp palm sugar or regular sugar is fine,add 1 tsp if want more sweet
  5. Get 1 tomato,sliced
  6. Take 1 juice from fresh lime
  7. Prepare 1 yard long bean,cut
  8. Make ready 1/2 tbsp fish sauce
  9. Make ready 1 eggplant

The two most popular types of green papaya salad have either dried shrimp or salted crab. Green papaya salad with dried shrimp and peanuts is called som tum thai. In Isan (and the rest of Thailand), green papaya salad is called som tum, with "som" meaning "sour" and "tum" referring to the pounding sound of the large pestle used to crush ingredients It is eaten by itself as a snack, or with marinated grilled beef and chicken. In a large som tum mortar, place garlic, green beans, dried shrimp, peanuts and chillies.

Steps to make Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad:
  1. Select papaya..today i choose the one still firm,but color turn to yellow..this give me sweetness,so i dont add any sugar, this portion is for my sister
  2. Peel,thinny slice papaya
  3. 2 chilli,2 clove of garlic,crush by pestel and mortar
  4. Add yard long bean slicd,eggplant sliced,tomto sliced,crush
  5. Add lime juice,sugar,fish suce,mix well,taste…add to your liking flavor inthis step
  6. Add thinny sliced papaya,mix well and serve with some grills :)
  7. There are so many kinds of Som Tum in Thailand,named by varies special ingredients..here in this step,i will try to post more photo of different kinds of this green popular papaya salad :)

Use a wooden pestle to bruise ingredients. Alternatively, the salad can be made by placing ingredients in a large ziplock bag and using a rolling pin to bruise the ingredients. Birds eye chili, fish sauce, garlic, green beans, lime, papaya, peanuts, rutabaga, shrimp, snake beans, sugar, swede, tomatoes. At Seattle's Little Uncle, chefs Poncharee Kounpungchart and Wiley Frank dehydrate Oregon bay shrimp and crush them into a green papaya salad, where the crustaceans amp up the umami flavor. Thai papaya salad or "som tum" is a fun and spicy side dish usually made with fish sauce and shrimp, but our vegetarian som tum recipe is just as good.

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