Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, green papaya and pineapple salad with shrimp. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This salad epitomizes the Vietnamese love of contrasting flavors and textures. The tartness of the dressing brings out the smoky, salty flavors of the shrimp and the peanuts add crunch and nuttiness. If you can't find green papaya, substitute with white cabbage.
Green papaya and pineapple salad with shrimp is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Green papaya and pineapple salad with shrimp is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook green papaya and pineapple salad with shrimp using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Green papaya and pineapple salad with shrimp:
- Prepare For the salad
- Get 1 green (unripe) papaya
- Make ready 1 pineapple
- Take 2 small carrots
- Get 6 cherry tomatoes
- Get 1/2 (1 pound) peeled, deveined shrimp
- Make ready 1 handful cilantro
- Take 1 handful mint
- Prepare 1 small hand of unsalted roasted peanuts
- Prepare 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- Make ready salt and pepper
- Get For the dressing
- Take 2 limes
- Make ready 2 tablespoons palm sugar
- Prepare 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- Get 1 chilli pepper
- Get 2 cloves garlic
- Make ready Optional: Prawn crackers
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. Add the shredded papaya and carrot and. 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 made one change to my salad by omitting the dried shrimp because of an allergy.
Instructions to make Green papaya and pineapple salad with shrimp:
- Preparation - Peel the papaya and remove the seeds. Grate with a box grater. Set aside. - Peel and cut the pineapple in chunks, discarding the core. Set aside.* - Halve the cherry tomatoes. - Peel the carrots and spiralize or julienne them. - Crush the peanuts with a pestle and mortar. - Finely chop the garlic. - Chop the chilli pepper. Option: to make it spicier, keep the seeds; to keep it milder, discard the seeds. - Chop the cilantro and mint finely.
- For the dressing - Mix the juice of the limes, the palm sugar, the fish sauce, the chilli and the garlic in a bowl. - Taste to check if the balance is okay. If not, add some more sugar or fish sauce to taste.
- Assembling the salad - Put the papaya, pineapple and cherry tomatoes in a bowl. - Fry the shrimp in a few minutes in the sesame oil until pink. Season with salt and pepper. Before adding to the bowl, let the shrimp dry on a sheet of paper. - Add the dressing to the bowl and mix everything together. - Top with the peanuts, mint and cilantro. - Optional: serve with prawn crackers.
- Note - * If you do this far ahead of serving, drizzle some lemon juice on the pineapple to avoid discoloration.
Salt and black pepper to taste. Green papaya salad with dried shrimp and peanuts is called som tum thai. Many Asian supermarkets have pre-shredded green papaya and that is what I use. However, if you can only find whole green papaya, the papaya can be peeled and shredded using a regular cheese grater with. While green papaya is eaten in salads across Southeast Asia, each region has it's own version.
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