Thai
Som Tam (Thai Green Papaya Salad)
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Som Tam (Thai Green Papaya Salad) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side and the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Peel and shred the raw papaya and carrot into thin matchsticks, using a grater or julienne peeler.
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Trim the green beans and cut into 1-inch pieces.
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Pound the garlic and chilies in a large mortar and pestle until roughly broken down.
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Add the tomato wedges and green beans and lightly bruise them with the pestle just to release their juices.
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Add the palm sugar, fish sauce, and lime juice and pound briefly to dissolve the sugar and combine.
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Add the shredded papaya and carrot in batches, pounding and tossing between additions so the dressing coats everything evenly.
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Taste and adjust the balance of hot, sour, salty, and sweet.
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Transfer to a plate, scatter with roasted peanuts, and serve immediately.
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Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Som Tam (Thai Green Papaya Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Som Tam (Thai Green Papaya Salad) carries peanuts and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 200 kcal
- Protein
- 5 g
- Carbs
- 30 g
- Fat
- 7 g
- Fiber
- 5 g
- Sugar
- 18 g
- Sodium
- 1300 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Som Tam (Thai Green Papaya Salad) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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