Thai Green Papaya – Dry Prawns Salad (Som Tham)

Ingredients for Thai Green Papaya – Dry Prawns Salad (Som Tham):

1. Garlic – 2 cloves
   Bird’s eye chilli (Kanthari) – 1 or 2
2. Dried prawns – 2 big spoons
3. Jaggery or palm jaggery – As needed
4. Peanut roasted – ¼ cup
5. Beans – 1-inch pieces, 1/3 cup
6. Green papaya – 170g, cut into very thin pieces lengthwise (similar to noodles)
   Cherry tomato – 6
7. Lemon juice and fish sauce – As required

How to prepare Thai Green Papaya – Dry Prawns Salad (Som Tham)?

1. Crush and make a fine paste of garlic and chillies.
2. Add dried prawns to it and crush them till they break into pieces.
3. Add 2 or 3 pieces of jaggery and add groundnut.
4. Crush again. But the mixture should never turn into a paste.
5. Add beans to it and crush them slightly. Beans are to be split into two.
6. Add tomato and papaya, and continue the process till tomato juice comes out.
7. Add a few drops of lemon juice and a little fish sauce and mix well.
8. If needed, you can add jaggery extra.
9. Serve as soon as the dish is prepared.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine 2013 October 1-14

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