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Easiest Way to Prepare Quick Som Tam / Thai Green Papaya Salad

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Som Tam / Thai Green Papaya Salad

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, som tam / thai green papaya salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Your Personalized Streaming Guide—Get Recommendations & Build Your Watchlist Now. Thai green papaya salad, which in Thailand is known as as 'som tam' (ส้มตำ), is one of the most commonly available and most popularly consumed dishes in all of Thailand. Originating in the northeastern part of Thailand (Isaan), bordering the country of Laos, the dish is a staple for the entire area. Som Tam is a popular Thai salad featuring green papaya and a spicy chile pepper dressing.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook som tam / thai green papaya salad using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Som Tam / Thai Green Papaya Salad:
  1. Take 1.5 cup raw papaya shredded
  2. Prepare 1/2 cup carrots grated
  3. Make ready 10 green beans parboiled
  4. Take 2 tomatoes cut into big pieces
  5. Take 1/2 cup roasted peanuts
  6. Take 3 green chillies
  7. Get 4 cloves garlic
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp brown sugar
  9. Make ready 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
  10. Make ready 2 tsp tamarind pulp
  11. Get 1 tbsp lemon juice
  12. Make ready Salt to taste
  13. Make ready 2 tbsp coriander leaves

Roughly chop the garlic then add all the other ingredients into a mortar and pestle. Pound the ingredients until the papaya becomes soft. Serve immediately to avoid becoming soft. Thai green papaya salad or som tam, is originally from Laos.

Steps to make Som Tam / Thai Green Papaya Salad:
  1. First of all wash, peel and shred green papaya. Prepare the other things required for the salad.
    Som Tam / Thai Green Papaya Salad1. Now take green chillies and garlic cloves in a mortar and crush it roughly. Now add brown sugar, tamarind pulp, soya sauce, lemon juice and salt to it and crush everything well. Add green beans to it and bruise it a little. Take this mixture out in a bowl.
  2. Now add tomatoes to the mortar and bruise it a little and add it to the bowl.
  3. Add other remaining ingredients to the salad and give it a good mix.
  4. Som Tam salad can be served as a side dish or a light meal.

Serve immediately to avoid becoming soft. Thai green papaya salad or som tam, is originally from Laos. From there, it travelled down to the Isan region of Thailand (in the north east), and is now found all over, explaining why everyone thinks of it as a Thai salad. In Laotian, the salad is known as tam som, or "pounded sour". In Thai, it is som tam.

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