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Green Papaya Salad (Som Tum)
Thai green papaya salad with chilli, lime, fish sauce, peanuts and dried shrimp. Pounding the ingredients gently with a pestle rather than crushing them hard bruises and releases their flavour while keeping the papaya and beans crunchy.
Total time
15 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
0 min
Difficulty
easy
Cuisine
Thai
gluten-free
Ingredients
400ggreen papaya, peeled and julienned
12cherry tomatoes, halved
4long beans or green beans, cut
3bird's eye chillies
2 clovesgarlic
2 tbspdried shrimp
4 tbspfish sauce
4 tbsplime juice
2 tbsppalm sugar
50groasted peanuts
Instructions
1
Pound chillies, garlic and dried shrimp in a mortar.
2
Add long beans — pound gently.
3
Add tomatoes — pound gently to burst them.
4
Add papaya, fish sauce, lime and palm sugar.
5
Toss with a large spoon.
6
Adjust seasoning — sour, sweet, salty, spicy.
7
Top with peanuts.
Nutrition (estimated)
Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.
Calories
124
Protein
6.1g
Fat
6.4g
Carbs
13.1g
Fiber
1.7g
Sodium
1174mg
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