Som Tom (Thai Salad)

Ingredients

• •2 cups shredded green papaya
• •2 tablespoons fish sauce
• •1 1/2 teaspoons palm sugar
• •3 tablespoons lime juice
• •1/2 cup tomato wedges
• •1/3 cup dried shrimps
• •1/4 cup peanuts
• •10 green chilies
• •5 cloves fresh garlic

Directions

1. 1Use motar and prestle to crush the chilies and garlic, add shrimps, continue crushing, add sugar, continue beating with the prestle, add the papaya, beat, beat, beat, add fish sauce, beat, beat, add lime juice, still beat, beat, beat, add tomato, beat, beat, beat, add peanuts, beat, beat, beat.
2. 2You may need to add either sugar, fish sauce, or lime. The final taste is the balance between sweet, (pepper) hot, salty, and sour. Serve with vegetables (for example: cabbage and green beans) Many northern or northeastern Thais like to eat it with sticky rice.