Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, green papaya salad (som tam). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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):
- Prepare Raw papaya
- Make ready garlic
- Take red chilli soaked in juice of 1 lemon
- Get peppercorns
- Get Dates 6 deseeed
- Prepare tomato
- Get tamarind juice
- Get peanuts
- Take Diced lemon
- Make ready 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):
- Cube papaya and tomato small.
- Pound red chillies,garlic,peppercorns and dates.
- Mix in papaya, diced lemon and tomato pieces.
- Add the lemon juice,tamarind juice and salt to taste.
- Sprinkle with the ground peanuts.
- 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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