Thai
Som Tam Pla Ra (Green Papaya Salad with Fermented Fish)
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Som Tam Pla Ra (Green Papaya Salad with Fermented Fish) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side and the dish at the centre. 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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Pound the garlic and chilies in a large mortar until broken down.
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Add the long beans and bruise lightly.
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Add the shredded papaya and cherry tomatoes and pound gently while tossing to bruise without pulping.
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Season with the pla ra, lime juice and palm sugar.
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Pound and toss once more to combine, tasting to balance sour, salty and hot.
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Serve at once, the pungent Isaan version, genuinely different from a central plains som tam.
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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 Pla Ra (Green Papaya Salad with Fermented Fish), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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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 Pla Ra (Green Papaya Salad with Fermented Fish) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| 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
- 180 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 42 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 5 g
- Sugar
- 25 g
- Sodium
- 300 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Som Tam Pla Ra (Green Papaya Salad with Fermented Fish) 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. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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