Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad
Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, som tum / thai papaya salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

In a large som tum mortar, place garlic, green beans, dried shrimp, peanuts and chillies. Use a wooden pestle to bruise ingredients. Add the shredded papaya, fish sauce, lime juice and sugar.

Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have som tum / thai papaya salad using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad:
  1. Take 1/2 cup green papaya,thinny sliced
  2. Get 2 chilli (said 2 minimum,add more if you like spicy..mine about 10 up)
  3. Prepare 2 clove garlic
  4. Make ready 1/2 tsp palm sugar or regular sugar is fine,add 1 tsp if want more sweet
  5. Prepare 1 tomato,sliced
  6. Take 1 juice from fresh lime
  7. Take 1 yard long bean,cut
  8. Prepare 1/2 tbsp fish sauce
  9. Take 1 eggplant

For som tum pbooh, omit the dried shrimp and toasted peanuts and add salted crabs instead. It is commonly understood that green papaya salad which is called som tum thai in Thailand, is actually a dish from Laos. Situated on Thailand's northern borders, Laos food influence is common in north-eastern Thailand where Som Tam Thai is a favorite dish. There is a variation of Green Papaya Salad, named Som Tum Thai, which does not include any Pla Ra, and this is often preferred by tourists visiting Thailand, as Pla Ra is something of an acquired taste.

Instructions to make Som Tum / Thai Papaya Salad:
  1. Select papaya..today i choose the one still firm,but color turn to yellow..this give me sweetness,so i dont add any sugar, this portion is for my sister
  2. Peel,thinny slice papaya
  3. 2 chilli,2 clove of garlic,crush by pestel and mortar
  4. Add yard long bean slicd,eggplant sliced,tomto sliced,crush
  5. Add lime juice,sugar,fish suce,mix well,taste…add to your liking flavor inthis step
  6. Add thinny sliced papaya,mix well and serve with some grills :)
  7. There are so many kinds of Som Tum in Thailand,named by varies special ingredients..here in this step,i will try to post more photo of different kinds of this green popular papaya salad :)

There are also some regional differences to Green Papaya Salad. For example, in Isan (North East Thailand) which is entirely land locked, the crab used as part of the recipe will be some form. Green Papaya Salad - Som Tum is a perfect example of the balance of flavors in Thai food that I find to be so brilliant. This dish is slightly sweet from palm sugar, sour from fresh lime juice, salty from fish sauce and has a fabulous kick of spice that mellows in the sweet shredded carrot and papaya. 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 beef and chicken.

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