Green Papaya Salad

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 120 g small hard green unripe papayas
• 1 1/2 tablespoons palm sugar
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 1 -2 garlic clove
• 25 g roasted peanuts
• 25 g snake beans, cut into pieces
• 1 tablespoon ground dried shrimp
• 2 -6 bird's eye chilies, stems removed (6 will give a very hot result!!)
• 50 g cherry tomatoes, cut into 2 pieces
• 1/2 lime
• sticky rice, to serve

Recipe

• 1 peel the green papaya with the vegetable peeler and cut the papaya into long, thin shreds.
• 2 if you have a mandolin, use the grater attachment.
• 3 mix the palm sugar with the fish sauce until the sugar has dissolved.
• 4 using a large, deep pestle and mortar, pound the garlic into a paste.
• 5 add the roasted peanuts and pound roughly together with the garlic.
• 6 add the papaya and pound softly, using a spoon to scrape down the sides, and turning and mix well.
• 7 add the beans, dried shrimp and chillies and keep pounding and turning to bruise these ingredients.
• 8 add the sugar mixture and tomatoes,squeeze in the lime juice and add the lime skin to the mixture.
• 9 lightly pound together for another minute until thoroughly mixed.
• 10 as the juice comes out, pound more gently so the liquid doesn't splash.
• 11 discard the lime skin.
• 12 taste the sauce in the bottom of the mortar and adjust the seasoning if necessary.
• 13 it should be balance of sweet and sour with a hot and salty taste.
• 14 spoon the papaya salad and all the juices onto a serving plate.
• 15 serve with sticky rice.