Raw Papaya Salad (Blue Elephant Restaurant)

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A traditional raw salad with a mildly spicy seasoning. Unripe papaya is firm fleshed so make sure you slice it thinly.
Ingredients
1 clove garlic, peeled
4 green bird's-eye chillies
30g / 1oz yard-long beans or French beans, cut into 2cm / 1/2 in pieces
20g / 1/2 oz / 1/6 cup dried shrimps
2 tbsp palm sugar
3 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp lemon juice
60g / 2oz cherry tomatoes, quartered
30g / 1oz / 1/8 cup roasted peanuts
200g / 7oz unripe green papaya, peeled and grated into long, thin strips
For the garnish:
Green salad leaves
Method

• In a mortar, roughly pound the garlic and chillies. Add the beans and pound, then the shrimps and pound again until crushed.

• Add the sugar, fish sauce and lemon juice and stir together. Add the tomatoes and press with the pestle.

• Add the peanuts and the papaya and stir until well mixed in.

• Serve cold in a round dish lined with the salad leaves.

Serves 1