Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, som tum thai spicy salad 🌶 🥗. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Green Papaya Salad (Som Tum Thai) and its wonderful blend of all Thai flavors has become our obsession as of late around here. Thai green papaya salad is known as som tum. Translated, som means sour and tum means the act of pounding.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook som tum thai spicy salad 🌶 🥗 using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Som Tum Thai spicy salad 🌶 🥗:
- Prepare 1 kohlrabi or swede or 1/2 raw papaya (grated or thinly shredded)
- Prepare 1 handful greenbeans (cut into about 4 cm long)
- Take 1 handful baby tomatoes (cut halves)
- Get 1 carrot (grated)
- Take 1 handful roasted cashew nuts or peanut
- Get 1-2 clove garlic
- Take 1-2 bird eyes chillies
- Prepare 2 tbsp fishsauce
- Take 1 tbsp palm sugar or brown sugar
- Make ready 1 lime
- Make ready 1/2 tamarind paste (if you cannot find this you can just use extra lime juice)
- Prepare Some Thai prawns crackers
- Prepare Some baby gem lettuce for side salad if prefer
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. Originating from ethnic Lao people, it is also eaten throughout Southeast Asia. Locally known in Thailand as som tam (Thai: ส้มตำ, pronounced ), in Laos as tam som (Lao: ຕໍາສົ້ມ), or the more specific name tam maak hoong (Lao: ຕໍາໝາກຫຸ່ງ, pronounced [tàm.ma᷆ːk.hūŋ]), in. The two most popular types of green papaya salad have either dried shrimp or salted crab.
Steps to make Som Tum Thai spicy salad 🌶 🥗:
- Peel the papaya or kohrabi or swede and carrot then cut into narrow matchsticks, a julienne peeler or mandonline is ideal. Cut up tomatoes, green beans. Toasted cashew nut on a dry pan for 5-8 mins.
- Pound your garlic and chilli in the pestle and mortar. If you don’t have one you can finely chopped them and mix in a big mixing bowl.
- Add some raw papaya, kohlrabi or swede, carrot, beans, tomato in and pound it lightly. Add some fishsauce, sugar, lime juice and tamarind paste and mix well. Add some cashew nuts or peanut and lightly pound them all together. You can serve them with some side salad like baby gem or put them on top of prawns crackers.
Green papaya salad with dried shrimp and peanuts is called som tum thai. The green papaya salad with salted crab is called som tum pbooh. The majority of the ingredients are the same. My mother likes it with both dried shrimp and salted crab. 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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