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The spicy green papaya salad combines all for different tastes - sour (lime), spicy (dired chili), salty (fermented fish sauce) and sweetness (sugar and sometimes fruits).
All ingredients are chopped in pieces and added to a mortar where they are pounded and mixed - "som tam" translates as "sour pounded" while the Lao and Khmer name translates into pounded papaya.
As green papaya is used for the dish, the overall taste is rather sour than sweet with a lovely crispy and crunchy texture - a dish like heaven in the tropical climate of Southeast Asia...
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True lovers would not dare to eat this salad without fermented fish sauce, but for beginners the taste might be strong and take a while to get familiar with to say the least...
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Ingredients:
- the most important one : fresh, raw and green papaya
Add to the papaya slices some or most of the following items, make sure you pound them well:
- Chili
- Sugar (traditionally palm sugar)
- Garlic
- Lime
- Fish sauce
- Crabs
- Shrimp paste
- Pla ra / padaek (fermented fish sauce)
- Tomatoes
- Yardlong beans
- Hog Plums
- Raw Thai eggplant
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