Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, green papaya salad (som tam). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Green papaya salad is a spicy salad made from shredded unripe papaya. Originating from ethnic Lao people, it is also eaten throughout Southeast Asia. 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.
Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook green papaya salad (som tam) using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam):
- Get 250 gm Raw papaya
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic
- Prepare 2 red chilli soaked in juice of 1 lemon
- Prepare 6 peppercorns
- Make ready Dates 6 deseeed
- Prepare 1 tomato
- Prepare 2 tbsp tamarind juice
- Get 1 handful peanuts
- Make ready 1 tsp Diced lemon
- Make ready to taste Salt
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. If you simply cannot find green. 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 used to crush ingredients It is eaten by itself as a snack, or with marinated grilled Green Papaya Salad.
Steps 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. Even if you've never been to Thailand, I'm sure you've heard of som tam - the most famous Thai salad. It seems to me I've been eating it since I was born.
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