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Som Tam is a popular Thai salad featuring green papaya and a spicy chile pepper dressing. The multitude of flavors from this salad explode in your mouth—sweet, tart, crunchy, and a touch of spiciness—the perfect side dish or a light entree. Traditionally, Som Tam is pounded with a mortar and pestle, which can be fun at times. At Seattle's Little Uncle, chefs Poncharee Kounpungchart and Wiley Frank dehydrate Oregon bay shrimp and crush them into a green papaya salad, where the crustaceans amp up the umami flavor.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook som tum (thai green papaya salad) using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Som tum (Thai green papaya salad):
- Prepare Vegetables:
- Get small green papaya, peeled and shredded
- Take carrots, shredded
- Prepare cucumber, shredded (optional)
- Get dried shrimp (optional, or leave out for a vegetarian alternative)
- Prepare Sauce:
- Get red or green bird’s eye chillies or 5-7 finger chillies (more mild)
- Prepare garlic cloves
- Prepare palm sugar (or granulated sugar)
- Make ready yard-long beans (or green beans), cut into 2.5cm (optional)
- Make ready cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
- Make ready Juice of 2 fresh lime (or tamarind paste mixed with water)
- Make ready Thai fish sauce (or 2 teaspoons salt or light soya sauce)
- Prepare Garnish:
- Prepare salted or roasted peanuts (optional)
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. Thai green papaya salad, which in Thailand is known as as 'som tam' (ส้มตำ), is one of the most commonly available and most popularly consumed dishes in all of Thailand. Originating in the northeastern part of Thailand (Isaan), bordering the country of Laos, the dish is a staple for the entire area. Spicy Green Papaya Salad (som tum or som tam) is a popular dish from the North Eastern part of Thailand (the largely rural Isan region) that combines spicy, sour and sweet flavors to make a classic dish.
Instructions to make Som tum (Thai green papaya salad):
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Transfer the somtum salad into a serving bowl. Garnish and sprinkle over the peanuts (optional).
Originating in the northeastern part of Thailand (Isaan), bordering the country of Laos, the dish is a staple for the entire area. Spicy Green Papaya Salad (som tum or som tam) is a popular dish from the North Eastern part of Thailand (the largely rural Isan region) that combines spicy, sour and sweet flavors to make a classic dish. It is often served alongside barbecue or grilled chicken and a portion of sticky rice. Green Papaya Salad; Thai Food, Som Tum Using a peeler, peel green papaya. Cut papaya in half and, using a spoon, scrape out and discard seeds.
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