Papaya Salad

Ingredients

• •4 cups shredded green papaya
• •2-3 cloves garlic
• •1-3 Thai chilies
• •1/2 cup yardlong beans (or green beans), cut into 1-inch pieces
• •2 tomatoes, sliced
• •2 tbsp dried shrimp (optional)
• •1/4 cup roasted peanuts, crushed
• •2 tbsp fish sauce
• •3 tbsp lime juice
• •1 tbsp palm sugar (or brown sugar)

Steps

1. 1.Pound the garlic and chilies in a mortar and pestle until broken down, then add the palm sugar and pound until dissolved into a paste.
2. 2.Add the long beans and pound lightly just until bruised, then add the dried shrimp and half the peanuts and pound a few times to break them up.
3. 3.Add the fish sauce and lime juice, then add the shredded papaya and tomatoes.
4. 4.Pound and toss with a spoon, turning the mixture from the bottom up rather than pounding straight down, to bruise the papaya slightly while keeping it crisp.
5. 5.Top with the remaining crushed peanuts before serving.