Thai Green Papaya Salad Aka Som Tam - cooking recipe

Ingredients

300 g julienned really green unripe papayas
3 tomatoes, wedges
3 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon dried shrimp, fried with little oil
8 fresh birds eye chiles, sliced
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon brown sugar or 1 tablespoon palm sugar
1 tablespoon roasted peanuts, pounded coarsely
1 tablespoon roasted cashew nuts
fresh long beans, cut into 2 inch
cabbage

Preparation

Pound garlic until fine.
Add garlic, lime juice, fish sauce,brown sugar in a bowl.
Mix well.
Add papaya, tomato wedges and chili into a big mixing bowl.
Stir in the garlic mixture into papaya bowl (item 3).
Adjust seasoning if necessary.
It should be mixture of sweet, sour and salty.
Toss in dried shrimp, groundnut and cashew nut.
Served with long beans, cabbage or other raw vegetables.