Green Papaya Salad from Quick & Easy Thai Recipes

Recipe courtesy of Quick and Easy Thai Recipes by Jean-Pierre Gabriel

• Ready In: 20 mins
• Serves: 2

Ingredients

• 3  fresh bird's eye chilies
• 5  garlic cloves
• 1  yard-long beans, but into 1 1/2-inch lengths
• 2  plum tomatoes, diced
• 1  tablespoon jaggery, palm sugar or 1  tablespoon light brown sugar
• 1  tablespoon roasted peanuts
• 1  tablespoon  dried shrimp
• 1  tablespoon fresh lime juice
• 2  limes, cut into wedges
• 1  tablespoon fish sauce
• 2⁄3 cup  julienned papayas, green mango or 2⁄3 cup jicama

Directions

1. Pound the chilis and garlic together in a mortar with a pestle. Add the bean and lightly crush. Add the tomatoes, sugar, roasted peanuts, dried shrimp, lime juice, lime wedges, and fish sauce to the mortar and gently mix together until the sugar has dissolved.
2. Add the papaya and mix together. Serve.
3. Recipe courtesy of Quick and Easy Thai Food by Jean-Pierre Gabriel. Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Easy-Thai-Jean-Pierre-Gabriel/dp/0714873225.