Som
Tam Thai
PAPAYA SALAD / MANGO SALAD
Papaya salad
is almost as much a staple part of my diet as rice is. For sure if I
eat out and am not given any som tam, I will soon after be found at a
roadside food vendor, correcting the deficiency.
If
you lived on a diet of som tam and not much else, it is highly
unlikely you would ever become fat.
Some
restaurants use mango instead of papaya. Generally though I find
mango to be too acidic for this purpose.
Ingredients to serve 4 people
1 medium
sized green papaya, 4 small plum tomatos, 1 carrot, 10ml tamarind juice,
25ml lime juice, 2 cloves garlic, 30gm
prik kee noo, 10gm brown sugar,
25ml nam pla, 25gm dried shrimp, 50gm unsalted roasted peanuts.
Peel the papaya and shred
the green flesh (if you don't have a suitable implement for the purpose
a coarse cheese grater may work).
Also peel and shred the
carrot.
Put the shredded papaya and
carrot in the fridge.
Soften the dried shrimp in a
few mls of boiling water.
Pound the garlic and the
prik kee noo together in a pestle and mortar.
Separately pound the peanuts
together with the shrimp, but only until coarsely broken up, not reduced
to dust or paste.
Mix the tamarind, juice,
lime juice, fish sauce and the sugar.
Chop the tomatoes into
quarters.
Mix all
the ingredients together and serve in a bowl. Most restaurants would
drain off some of the excess juice before serving, but I usually keep it.
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