Bangkok Street Food's Green Papaya Salad

At most Thai joints, the papaya salad is rarely one of the more memorable plates. Swimming in a cloyingly sugary dressing or wilted beyond recognition, these sub-par salads do nothing to showcase the vibrancy of a truly exemplaryGreen Papaya Salad. To experience the salad the way it's meant to be enjoyed, we turn to Tom Vandenberghe and Eva Verplaetse, the Thai food-loving co-authors ofBangkok Street Food.

This recipe fromBangkok Street Foodcomes from years of on-the-street research—that is, loads of spicy-fresh papaya salads made streetside, pounded with a mortar and pestle for optimal enjoyment. Aside from the papaya and a really fabulous dressing of chiles, garlic, and fish sauce, this salad calls for a few other veggies: long beans and Thai eggplant. Finished off with a handful of roasted peanuts and chewy dried shrimp, this papaya salad is tasty on so many levels—crisp, hot, sweet, crunchy, and fishy in the best possible way.

Active15 mins

Total15 mins

服务2 servings

200ggreen papaya(about 1 cup)
1 to 2garliccloves
2 to 5smallbird's eye chiles
1pinchsalt
1 to 2teaspoonspalm sugar
2snake beans (long beans), cut into 1/2-inch lengths
2tablespoonsroasted peanuts
4cherry tomatoes, halved
2tablespoonsdried baby shrimps
1Thai eggplant, sliced (optional)
2 to 3tablespoonsfish sauce
1 to 2tablespoonslime juice

Peel and shred the green papaya. Pound the garlic with chiles, salt, and sugar in a clay mortar with a wooden pestle. Add snake beans, peanuts, tomatoes, dried shrimps and when using Thai eggplant, now is the time.
Keep pounding and mixing simultaneously with a large spoon. Season it with fish sauce and lime. Fold in the green papaya and continue pounding and mixing until the papaya is coated with the dressing.

Nutrition Facts(per serving)
185	Calories
5g	Fat
30g	Carbs
8g	Protein

Nutrition Facts
Servings: 2
Amount per serving
Calories	185
% Daily Value*
Total Fat5g	7%
Saturated Fat 1g	4%
Cholesterol11mg	4%
Sodium1578mg	69%
Total Carbohydrate30g	11%
Dietary Fiber 4g	13%
Total Sugars 14g
Protein8g
Vitamin C 84mg	419%
Calcium 97mg	7%
Iron 2mg	10%
Potassium 686mg	15%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

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