28 Mar Recipe » Thai Papaya Salad
Each month we invite another food blogger to tip us with one of their best recipe’s, inspired from a country or place they have been. This month we highlight a recipe from Culinessa. This Food Blogger has Asian roots and she sure knows how to create a colourful and spicy Papaya Salad (Som Tam), inspired by Thailand!
Papaya gives this salad the sweetness to balance out the spice
Ingredients:
1 green papaya, sliced or grated
2 big carrots, sliced or grated
1 clove of garlic
9 long beans, cut in to 5 cm pieces
1 red chili / rawit for extra spice
3 tsp palm sugar
1 big tomato, in quarters
4 tbsp lemon juice
3 tbsp fish sauce
some roasted peanuts
Start by pounding the garlic together with the chili. Don’t pound the chili to hard. Add in the palm sugar.
Now add in long beans and tomato and bash them a little bit. Add in the tomato and don’t pound to hard. Season with lemon juice and fish sauce. Last but not least add in the papaya and carrot. Pound everything together and mix up well. Taste and add additional sugar, fish sauce, lemon juice if necessary. Top off with some roasted peanuts.
* You can always add in extra chilies for more spice.
Love,
Vanessa
*Vanessa is a food blogger from the Netherlands with roots from Indonesia, If you love some spice and you’re into Asian cooking, check Culinessa.com, where she shares[frontpage_news widget=”1254″ name=”Recipes”]
a lot of recipes made with love and passion. Find the Dutch version of the Thai Papaya Salad here.
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