Tam Mak Hoong

Name: Tam Mak Hoong
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Laotian
Ingredients: 300g green papaya, shredded; 2 long red chillies; 2 cloves garlic; 2 tbsp padaek or fish sauce; 2 tbsp lime juice; 1 tsp sugar; 2 tomatoes, halved; dried shrimp 2 tbsp

Laotian green papaya salad pounded in a mortar with padaek (fermented fish paste), tomatoes and chilli — the original som tum.

Total time

15 min

Prep

15 min

Cook

0 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Laotian

Ingredients

300ggreen papaya, shredded

2long red chillies

2 clovesgarlic

2 tbsppadaek or fish sauce

2 tbsplime juice

1 tspsugar

2tomatoes, halved

dried shrimp2 tbsp

Instructions

Pound chillies and garlic to a rough paste in a mortar.

Add padaek, lime and sugar. Mix.

Add papaya, dried shrimp and tomatoes. Pound and toss — not too smooth.

Taste — should be sour, salty, spicy and slightly pungent.

Serve immediately with sticky rice and grilled meat.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

Protein

0.8g

Fat

0.2g

Carbs

5.2g

Fiber

0.9g

Sodium

4mg

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