October 30th, 2009 
admin by Bank Takaeng
Som Tam or raw Papaya salad is a typical Isaan dish. It is a basic “salad” style dish, eaten as a snack.
Ingredients:
Papaya julienned – 1
Birdseye or dynamite chiles (de-stalked, cut in four lengthwise then in half crosswise) – 3-4
Chopped garlic – 8-10 cloves
Sliced tomatoes – 1/4 cup/ 60 ml.
Long beans (cut into 1-inch pieces) – 1/2 cup/ 120 ml.
Salt- 1/2 teaspoon/ 5 ml.
Fish sauce- 2 teaspoons/ 10 ml.
Tamarind juice – 1/4 cup/ 60 ml.
Pickled mud-fish juice – 2 tablespoons/ 30 ml.(optional)
Preparation:
- Sprinkle the julienned papaya with salt and let stand for half an hour or so.
- Squeeze and discard any fluid. add the chili, and pound in a mortar and pestle.
- Add the remaining ingredients except the tomato, and pound until mixed and tender. Add the tomato, and serve with a bowl of sticky rice.
Note: Thais generally eat lettuce or some cabbage related vegetable as a side dish also (the normal way to eat it is to rip a piece of lettuce leaf, and take a mouthful of som tam in the leaf and eat it without knife, fork or spoon).
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