Papaya salad
Papaya salad

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, papaya salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Papaya salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Papaya salad is something which I have loved my whole life.

Evan Sung for The New York Times In Isan (and the rest of Thailand), green papaya salad is called som tum, with "som" meaning "sour" and "tum" referring to the pounding sound of the large pestle. Heat a pot over medium-low heat. Transfer to a bowl and refrigerate until cool.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook papaya salad using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Papaya salad:
  1. Make ready 1 1/2 cup green papaya, julienned and soaked in cold water to keep firm
  2. Take 1 cup cherry tomatoes, cut into halves
  3. Prepare 1/4 cup roasted peanuts
  4. Take Cilantro leaves (optional)
  5. Make ready Dressing
  6. Prepare 2 gloves garlic, minced
  7. Take 1-2 green or red chillies
  8. Prepare 4 tbsp palm sugar, diced
  9. Take 2 tbsp dried shrimps, diced
  10. Get 6 tbsp fresh lime juice
  11. Prepare 2 1/2 tbsp tamarind juice
  12. Get 4 tbsp fish sauce

Papaya Salad is a dish originating in Southeast Asia, consisting of a spicy, sweet, tart dressing, shredded unripe papaya, and other ingredients that can include mango, cucumber, tomato, garlic, peanuts, and dried shrimp. It's eaten throughout the region, not just in Thailand, but also in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Green papaya salad is the most popular dish among women in Thailand according to a survey I heard on TV there. It is a Northeastern food that is eaten with sticky rice and other Northeastern dishes such as laab, beef salad and bamboo shoot salad.

Steps to make Papaya salad:
  1. In a mortar and pestle, pound the garlic and chillies until the garlic is slightly bruised. Then add the palm sugar, dried shrimp and half of the peanuts. Mash all together.
  2. Add the lime juice, tamarind juice and fish sauce. By this time make sure the palm sugar if already dissolved into the dressings.
  3. In a bawl, combine the dressing with the green papaya and tomatoes. Top with the remaining peanuts and some cilantro.

The two most popular types of green papaya salad have either dried shrimp or salted crab. Green papaya salad is a Lao spicy salad made from shredded unripe papaya. Originating from ethnic Lao people, it is also eaten throughout Southeast Asia. Locally known in Thailand as som tam (Thai: ส้มตำ, pronounced /sôm tām/), in Laos as tam som (Lao: ຕໍາສົ້ມ), or the more specific name tam maak hoong (Lao: ຕໍາໝາກຫຸ່ງ, pronounced [tàm.ma᷆ːk. Add tomatoes, cilantro, green onions, chile, and green beans.

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