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Som tum (Thai green papaya salad).

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have som tum (thai green papaya salad) using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Som tum (Thai green papaya salad):

1. {Make ready of Vegetables:.
2. {Make ready 1 of small green papaya, peeled and shredded.
3. {Make ready 2 of carrots, shredded.
4. {Make ready 1/2 of cucumber, shredded (optional).
5. {Get 2 teaspoons of dried shrimp (optional, or leave out for a vegetarian alternative).
6. {Prepare of Sauce:.
7. {Take 3-4 of red or green bird’s eye chillies or 5-7 finger chillies (more mild).
8. {Get 2 of garlic cloves.
9. {Take 3 tablespoons of palm sugar (or granulated sugar).
10. {Get 2 of yard-long beans (or green beans), cut into 2.5cm (optional).
11. {Make ready 4 of cherry tomatoes, sliced in half.
12. {Take of Juice of 2 fresh lime (or tamarind paste mixed with water).
13. {Prepare 2 tablespoons of Thai fish sauce (or 2 teaspoons salt or light soya sauce).
14. {Make ready of Garnish:.
15. {Make ready Handful of salted or roasted peanuts (optional).

Instructions to make Som tum (Thai green papaya salad):

1. Prepare all of the ingredients, shred the green papaya, carrots and cucumber (optional) using a shredder. Cut the beans (optional) tomatoes and lime and set aside..
2. In a pestle and mortar roughly pound and bash the chillies and garlic together. Add the palm sugar, beans (optional), tomatoes and dried shrimp (optional). Then lightly pound all the ingredients together to combine..
3. Squeeze in lime juice (or tamarind paste mixture) and fish sauce. Again lightly pound (avoid over bashing the ingredients). Add the sauce to the mixing bowl with the green papaya, carrot and cucumber (optional). Mix with a spoon to combine and incorporate all of the ingredients and taste. Tip: it should be sweet, salty and also have a sharp, sour and spicy tang (adjust as needed, add more lime for tang, sugar for sweetened, fish sauce for saltiness etc)..
4. Transfer the somtum salad into a serving bowl. Garnish and sprinkle over the peanuts (optional)..

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