This salad is found all over the streets of Thailand and is one of the most Thai flavored dishes.

Tools/materials

1/4 green papaya, 2 cowpeas, 1 tomato, 1 lime, 1 small bell pepper, 2 cloves of red-skinned garlic, dried shrimp, peanuts, fish sauce, sea salt, palm sugar, pickle sauce

01

Roasted peanuts: no oil in the pan, medium heat, pour in the peanuts, and keep gently stirring, for about seven or eight minutes, the surface is slightly charred on the good.

02

Peanuts out of the pot to cool, with the hand rubbing the peanut coating, otherwise there will be a bitter taste.

03

Green papaya (with 1/4 is enough) first cut in half, peeled and seeded, sliced and then converted into julienne.

04

Dice the tomatoes, halve the lime and break the cowpeas into small pieces by hand.

05

Throw a small piece of palm sugar into the mortar and pestle and pound it; then put a millet chili and two cloves of garlic and gently pound them to crack them, pounding them too much may be too spicy; then put a handful of dried shrimps and limes in the mortar and pestle, and the limes should be pounded to get out the juices; then put in the cowpea segments, green papaya julienne and continue pounding.

06

Green papaya can be pounded a little heavier, while pounding and stirring with chopsticks.

07

Next, put some tomatoes and crushed peanuts, add a little fish sauce, sea salt and caper sauce, and continue to pound; after pounding, use chopsticks to mix well.

08

Finally, serve and garnish with lettuce leaves.

Special Tips

1, choose the green papaya, must pay attention to the degree of maturity, not too ripe; too ripe papaya taste is not so good, not the kind of chewy.

2, in Southeast Asia, pounded vegetables can be fully mixed with the juice of the ingredients to achieve that aroma and flavor fully integrated, so that the dish tastes more flavorful.

3, pounding vegetables can control their own taste, such as chili peppers, gently pounded, the spiciness may be less, if the pounding is very bad, the spiciness will be very heavy. So the whole process of pounding vegetables, according to their own taste priorities to grasp.

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