Som Tam (carrots and grean bean salad with pawpaw). Molly Wizenberg's som tam features blanched beans. Photograph: Felicity Cloake for the Guardian. Most recipes add snake (AKA yardlong) beans to the Som tam; is it really the world's greatest salad, and if not, what is?

A little more looking around confirmed that I had all of the other ingredients needed to pound together a fresh Thai green papaya salad… with an American twist. I say "American twist" because carrots are not. Birds eye chili, fish sauce, garlic, green beans, lime, papaya, peanuts, rutabaga, shrimp, snake beans, sugar, swede, tomatoes. You can have Som Tam (carrots and grean bean salad with pawpaw) using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Som Tam (carrots and grean bean salad with pawpaw)

Prepare 2 cloves of garlic.
It's 4 of fresh bird's eye chilli.
It's 100 gram of stringless grean beans, sliced.
You need 1 of medium carrots, sherdedd.
It's 7 of cherry tomatoe, cut in half.
Prepare 1 handful of bean sprouts.
Prepare 1 of small green pawpaw, peeled and sherdedd.
You need 1 handful of lemon basil.
It's 1/4 cup of lemon juice.
It's 3 tablespoon of fish sauce.
You need 2 tablespoon of sugar.
You need 2 tablespoon of dried shrimp, washed then ground.
It's 2 tablespoon of chrushed roasted peanut.

Som tam is a popular Thai salad featuring green papaya and a spicy chili pepper dressing. Traditionally, it's pounded with a mortar and pestle, which can be fun at times. Click Play to See This Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam Thai) Recipe Come Together. Green papaya salad is a Lao spicy salad made from shredded unripe papaya.

Som Tam (carrots and grean bean salad with pawpaw) step by step

Using a mortar and pastle, pound the garlic and chilli and sugar until well pulverised. Remove and place in large bowl..
Mix all the ingredients (pawpaw, carrot, cherry tomatoes, grean bean, sprout and lemon basil) add the Fish sauce and the lemon juice toss with al large spoon. Taste and if necessary add more ingredient that you want it..
When satisfied with the flavour and consistency, sprinkle with ground shirmp and toss again. Serve sprinkle with peanuts and sticky rice..
Note: I just use Normal peanuts and I don't ground it. Also I like to put lemon basil in it..

Originating from ethnic Lao people, it is also eaten throughout Southeast Asia. I got a bag of already-shredded green papaya and took my treasure home to make fresh green papaya salad. If you simply cannot find green papaya, don't worry — just substitute shredded kohlrabi, carrots, or bean sprouts. These will have the same "crunch" and will carry the dressing very well. Som Tam is a famous salad from Southeast Asian cuisine.