Papaya Salad [Som Tum]

Papaya salad is very popular with both Thais and foreigners. It combines many vegetables such as papaya, tomato, chilies, galics, etc. Thais like to eat with sticky rice and barbecued chicken.


Papaya Salad Ingredients

1. 2 cups shredded green papaya
2. 1/2 cup shredded carrot
3. 1/2 cup sting bean (cut into 1" long)
4. 2 tablespoons fish sauce
5. 1 1/2 tablespoons palm sugar
6. 3 tablespoons lime juice
7. 1/2 cup tomato (wedged)
8. 1/3 cup dried shrimps
9. 1/4 cup peanuts
10. 10 green chilies
11. 5 cloves fresh garlic



Papaya Salad Preparations

1. Use motar and prestle to crush the chilli and garlic, add shrimps, continue crushing.

2. Add sugar, continue beating with the prestle, then add the papaya, carrot, sting bean, fish sauce, lime juice, tomato, and peanuts. Continue beating until all ingredients mixed well.

3. Finally, season with sugar, fish sauce, or lime. The original taste this dish should be the balance taste between sweet, (pepper) hot, salty, and sour.

4. Serve with vegetables (e.g. cabbage, string bean, napa, etc.). Thai people love to eat Sticky Rice with Papaya Salad. In this case, sticky rice can be served together with finished Papaya Salad.

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Spicy Soup with Prawn and Lemon Grass [Tom Yum Goong]

Tom Yum Goong soup combines all the exotic
flavours of Thai Food bringing together herbs
ingredients such as lemongrass, chillies, ginza and coriander.

Spicy Soup with Prawn and Lemon Grass Ingredients




1. 12 medium-size shrimps, deveined
2. 10 mushrooms
3. 1 stalk of lemon grass (lightly pounded and cut into 2" long)
4. 3 lime leaves
5. 1 teaspoon of salt
6. 2 tablespoons of fishsauce
7. 3 tablespoons of lime juice
8. 6 hot peppers (pounded lightly)
9. 4 cups of water
10. 1/2 cup of roughly cut coriander leaves




Spicy Soup with Prawn and Lemon Grass Preparations


1. Remove the shrimp shell but leave the tails (for good appearance). Then cut open the back of each shrimp to remove the veins. Also clean the mushrooms with water and dry them well before wedging each into quarters.



2. Bring water to boil, then add lemon grass, lime leaves, and shrimps. When the shrimps turn pink, add mushrooms and salts.




3. Remove the pot from heat after boiling. Then season with fish sauce, lime juice, and hot peppers. Serve the soup while still hot and garnish on top with pieces of coriander leaves.

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