Spicy Lao Papaya Salad

This is a Lao Papaya Salad Recipe. With this recipe, you can interchange the green papaya with cucumber, longbeans, mangos, etc. This dish goes great with grilled meat and sticky rice. Hope you enjoy.

• Ready In: 7 mins
• Serves: 2-3

Ingredients

• 2  cups papayas (shredded)
• 5 -8  cherry tomatoes
• 2  lime wedges
• 5 -9  Thai chiles
• 2  garlic cloves
• 1⁄4 teaspoon shrimp paste
• 1⁄4 teaspoon  crab, paste
• 1 -2  teaspoon fish sauce
• 1  tablespoon sugar
• 1  tablespoon tamarind paste (optional)
• 1⁄8 teaspoon msg (optional) or 1⁄8 teaspoon salt (optional)
• 2  teaspoons  fermented fish sauce (pa-dak -optional)

Directions

1. Shred green papaya (it makes it really juicy!).
2. Using a large Mortar and Pestle, pound the garlic, peppers, shrimp paste, crab paste, and 1/2 tablespoon of sugar.
3. Half the tomatoes and add to the mortar and pestle along with the half of the cucumber.
4. Pound and mix the contents of the mortar and pestle.
5. Add the rest of the papaya, sugar, fish sauce, msg (optional), pa-dak (optional), and squeeze the lime juice in there.
6. Continue pounding and mixing the contents of the mortal and pestle.
7. Ready to serve.