Som Tam Thai

Pawpaw salad


1 green pawpaw (available at Asian grocers)

4 long green beans

3 tomatoes

3 tb unsalted peanuts

3 clove garlic

1 Kaffir-lime

2 ts chilli paste

1 tb palm sugar

1 tb fish sauce

6 dried shrimps

 

Peel pawpaw, cut into half, take out the seeds. Dice pawpaw into small pieces. Cut beans into 1 cm long pieces, dice tomatoes, chop peanuts, peel garlic. Mix and chop chilli paste, garlic, palm sugar, fish sauce, shrimps and 1 tb of the pawpaw in a food processor. Add this paste to the rest of the pawpaw, beans, tomatoes and peanuts and season with lime juice.