We always order this salad a lot when we go to the Thai town restaurant. I try to replicate this dish and making it at home with this recipe it was just as good as in the restaurant. Remember the simplest ingredients made a killer dish that was sweet, sour, hot, and tangy refreshing salad. By the way soak the dried shrimps in hot boiling water for few minutes (if desired) before adding them to the papaya salad to kill any bacteria.
Ingredients:
1 green papaya, make 3 cups of shredded papaya
3 tbsp palm sugar
2 red hot red chilis
2 tbsp dried shrimp
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 long beans, cut into pieces
2-3 tbsp fish sauce
15 cherry tomatoes, sliced into halves
3 tbsp toasted peanuts
1 lime (squeeze)
Preparation:
1 green papaya, make 3 cups of shredded papaya
3 tbsp palm sugar
2 red hot red chilis
2 tbsp dried shrimp
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 long beans, cut into pieces
2-3 tbsp fish sauce
15 cherry tomatoes, sliced into halves
3 tbsp toasted peanuts
1 lime (squeeze)
Preparation:
1. Wash and peel the green papaya shred the flesh on top layer into a bowl using a shredder, cheese grater or food processor. If you don't have a suitable implement for the purpose. It can be chopped up into strips with your knife may work.
2. Use the pestle to pound the papaya, pounding a few times just enough to bruise the shredded papaya flesh. However, if you have a big enough mortar and pestle you can crush the papaya together with all ingredients, or you can make the salad in separate batches.
3. Using a mortar and pestle, smash the garlic and chilis first until they're broken up.
4. Add the long beans and roasted peanuts, pound a few times just to bruise the beans and roughly crushed the peanuts so that most are ground fairly fine, but there are some larger pieces.
5. Add tomatoes ,fish sauce,lime juice, dried shrimp and palm sugar.
6. Lightly pound together until thoroughly mixed or until it picks up all the flavorings. This dish should taste sweet, sour, and a little bit salty. So taste taste taste and adjust as needed with more sugar, lime juice or palm sugar to your desire flavor combination.
7. In a bowl, combine the shredded papaya and tomatoes salad dressing. Toss together, making sure the peanut is well distributed. Serve in salad plate and sprinkle with peanuts.
