Thai Green Papaya Salad | Som Tum
Thai Green Papaya Salad- a classic crunchy flavourful salad from Thailand
Servings: 4 person
Calories: 151kcal
Ingredients
for the salad
- 3 cup Green papaya shredded
- 4 Long beans/ Barbati
- 1/3 cup Roasted peanuts
- few slices Carrot / Gajar
- 4 tbsp Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya
- 8 Cherry tomatoes
salad dressing
- 3 Thai bird eye chili
- 1 tbsp Lemon Juice / Nimbu Ka Ras
- 2 tsp Dark soya sauce
- 1 tbsp Tamarind Pulp/ Imli
- 1 tbsp Jaggary / Gud *
- to taste Salt / Namak
- 1/4 tsp Cooking Oil
Instructions
- Peel the green papaya and make juliennes either with knife or use a julinner maker
- Soak the julinnes in ice cold water to make them crisp.
- Roast the peanuts and chop beans in 1 inch pieces.
- In the mortar and pestle add the thai bird eye chili and pound it roughly , then add the beans and crush again slightly.
- Add jaggery and tamarind and crush to melt them.
- Now add peanuts and crush few times.
- Add lemon juice, its skin and salt and crush few times.
- Drain the papaya from the ice water bath and spread on a towel to absorb all the extra water.
- Add shredded papaya and sliced cherry tomatoes in the mortar and gently crush them till they looks slight soft and wilted, so all the juices will be absorbed in the papaya shreds.
- If your mortar is not big enough then mix the dressing do this all process in batches or crush with your fingers and keep adding the dressing.
- Once done serve it immediately for best result.
- Serve with sticky jasmine rice or just as a salad.
- Garnish with thai basil and few peanuts.
Nutrition
Calories: 151kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 234mg | Potassium: 407mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 1227IU | Vitamin C: 79mg | Calcium: 43mg | Iron: 1mg