How to make a spicy and sour Thai papaya salad that everyone will love

With a unique flavor, the combination of sour, spicy, salty, and sweet creates the endless appeal of Thai papaya salad (Som Tum). Let's In the kitchen with Long Phuong Porcelain research about How to make Thai papaya salad Simple at home but extremely effective in relieving boredom!

Prepare 15 minutes | Processing 20 minutes | Servings for 2 people

1. Ingredients for making Thai papaya salad

Thai papaya salad also called Son Tum means "a dish pounded (in a mortar) with a sour taste", this is a typical dish of Thailand. With the sour taste of lemon, the spicy taste of chili, the salty taste of fish sauce and the sweet taste of sugar, all are pounded evenly in a mortar to create an extremely attractive dish.

Notes on choosing ingredients:

To do Thai papaya dish For the right taste, choose papaya that is still green when eating, it will be crispier and more delicious, do not choose fruit that is overripe. 

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2. How to make spicy and sour Thai papaya salad

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

• Green papaya is washed, peeled and grated with a knife. Next prepare bowl Ice mixed with 1 tablespoon of salt and 100ml of vinegar stir well, put the shredded papaya in to soak to remove the papaya resin, when eaten, it will be more crispy, no longer greasy. Soak papaya for 10-15 minutes, then remove and drain.
• Shredded carrots, soaked carrots in a bowl of ice water with papaya to keep the crunch.
• Wash tomatoes, cut areca and remove the intestines inside, then cut into small squares.
• Squeeze out the juice, remove the seeds
• Chopsticks cut into pieces about 5cm

Step 2: Boil cowpeas

Put the cowpeas in a pot of boiling water with ½ spoon salt and 1 tablespoon cooking oil. The cowpeas only need to be boiled lightly with high heat, they do not need to be overcooked to keep their crispiness.

Step 3: Make the spice mix

• Palm sugar 1 tablespoon 

• Fish sauce 2 tablespoons

• Lemon juice 2 tablespoons

• Anchovy paste ½  spoon

Step 4: Crush the ingredients

• First, put in the mortar of dried shrimp, chili, and garlic and then pound it

• Next, add boiled cowpeas, sliced ​​tomatoes and continue pounding. Gently rub your hands to avoid the tomato part being crushed.

• Continue to add 100g of three aspects with three-kissed sauce, pounding well to treat the pungent taste of green papaya.

• Finally, mix in the whole papaya, chopped carrots and the prepared spice mixture, using gloves to make it easier to mix.

• When you're done mixing, present dish, sprinkle more roasted peanuts and dried shrimp on top to increase the attractiveness of the dish.

Step 5: Finished product

Thai papaya salad Has arresting colors and stimulating flavors. Thai salad has a sweet and sour taste, spicy and chewy, the papaya fibers are chewy and crunchy, so it's very delicious to eat.

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3. Enjoy

Arrange the papaya mixture on a plate, sprinkle roasted peanuts on top and you're done. Papaya salad is well-spiced, sour, spicy, salty and sweet, very attractive. This dish can be eaten with sticky rice or grilled foods, it will be very attractive.

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5. Notes on how to make Thai papaya salad

• To make the salad more delicious, you should use palm sugar. Palm sugar has a cool, sweet taste and is very fragrant, so when used in salads, it will create a sweet taste that is not as strong as refined sugar.
• To keep the papaya crispy, when grating the papaya, you should soak it in ice cold water.
• Before mixing papaya with salad, it must be drained to retain the rich taste of the sauce.
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6. Conclusion

So Long Phuong Porcelain has guided you How to make Thai papaya salad Very simple but extremely delicious. You can eat Thai papaya salad with vermicelli, sticky rice, grilled chicken and raw vegetables to change the main meal, guaranteed to satisfy your stomach!

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