Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, som tum (thai green papaya salad). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

For the best taste, I like to get raw peanuts and roast them myself, so they have a nice fresh crunchiness to them. However, you could always just use any kind of roasted peanuts for this recipe, just preferably roasted unsalted peanuts. Som Tum is a Green Papaya Salad which is healthy and delicious from Thailand. It is little lemony, little sweet, little fishy, little crunchy and just a little chilly.

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).

Som Tum is a Green Papaya Salad which is healthy and delicious from Thailand. It is little lemony, little sweet, little fishy, little crunchy and just a little chilly. Serve Thai Som Tum Recipe as a side dish along with Vegetarian Thai Red Curry and Steamed Rice for a weekend dinner. If you like this recipe, you can also try other Thai recipes such as Creamy Thai Sweet Potato Curry Recipe Thai. Add green papaya and mix well.

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