Thai green papaya salad - Som Tam

Som Tam or Thai Green Papaya Salad. This is one of the most famous street foods in Thailand. Walking down the street in Thailand, you will hear the rhytmic beat of a pestle with the mortar, that is the sound of Som Tam or green papaya salad is being made.
Som means sour. Tam means pounding in the mortar and pestle.

Som Tam is a shredded or grated green papaya combined with fresh chilli, garlic , dried shrimp, roast peanut, long bean and tomato, all of which are tossed with a salty sour sweet dressing made with fish sauce, palm sugar and lime juice.

Wooden motar and pestle are used to lightly bruise and break the ingridients down to the point they release their juices but hold on to their crunchy texture.

Som Tam is very refreshing, light, and quick to prepare. One of the best choices for diet.

Receipe
Serving =2
Preparation = 10 min

150 g Shredded green papaya
2- 3 cloves Thai garlic
2-3 bird eye chilli
3 cherry tomatoes
30 g long bean
2 TBSp roast peanut
1 TBsp dried shrimp
1 TBsp fish sauce
1 TBsp palm sugar
1 1/2 TBsp Lime juice

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Krittiya was born in Chachoengsao province, 70 kilometers east of Bangkok . Now she lives in Bangkok. Her dream of travelling the world started when she became an exchange student to attend high school in America.

During her childhood, She spent most of her time helping her aunt cooking foods for her family workers. The skills and experience from a home cooking has made her into Canteen business. She catered foods, desserts and snacks for workers in many factories for almost 15 years. She also had earned a diploma in Thai-European Cooking from Suan Dusit International Culinary School in Bangkok.

She always enjoy seeing different cultures and trying different foods. She traveled to more than 30 countries in Southeast Asia, Asia, Europe and South Africa. And Never once would not spend time trying their local cuisine.

From Travelling, she enjoys meeeting people from around the world. She has friends from many countries and most of them love thai foods.

She decided to open her youtube channel to share how to cook thai foods, delicious recipes and authentic taste of thai cuisine to all of her friends and those who love thai foods.