Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam)
Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam)

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, green papaya salad (som tam). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam) is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Thai green papaya salad, known better as "som tam" (ส้มตำ) is one of the most popular Thai street food dishes available. Though it's an Isaan, northeastern Thai dish, som tam can be found throughout the entire country. Green papaya salad is a spicy salad made from shredded unripe papaya. Originating from ethnic Lao people, it is also eaten throughout Southeast Asia.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook green papaya salad (som tam) using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam):
  1. Make ready Raw papaya
  2. Take garlic
  3. Make ready red chilli soaked in juice of 1 lemon
  4. Get peppercorns
  5. Get Dates 6 deseeed
  6. Make ready tomato
  7. Make ready tamarind juice
  8. Get peanuts
  9. Get Diced lemon
  10. Get Salt

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. Green papaya salad is the most popular dish among women in Thailand according to a survey I heard on TV there. The two most popular types of green papaya salad have either dried shrimp or salted crab.

Instructions to make Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam):
  1. Cube papaya and tomato small.
  2. Pound red chillies,garlic,peppercorns and dates.
  3. Mix in papaya, diced lemon and tomato pieces.
  4. Add the lemon juice,tamarind juice and salt to taste.
  5. Sprinkle with the ground peanuts.
  6. Serve fresh.

Green papaya salad is the most popular dish among women in Thailand according to a survey I heard on TV there. The two most popular types of green papaya salad have either dried shrimp or salted crab. Green papaya salad with dried shrimp and peanuts is called som tum thai. As the name implies, green papaya is basically an unripe papaya. It has a really mild taste, and a texture almost similar to a cucumber or daikon radish I got a bag of already-shredded green papaya and took my treasure home to make fresh green papaya salad.

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