Green papaya salad is the most popular dish among women in Thailand. It is made using a clay mortar, wooden pestle and a spatula.
1 1/2 tbsp palm sugar
3/4 lime
2 cups green papaya, shredded
6 green beans
1 clove garlic
1 1/2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp dried shrimp
2 chili peppers
5 cherry tomatoes
2 tbsp toasted peanuts (Optional)
First, smash a clove of garlic, then add green beans and half cherry tomatoes, pound a few times just to bruise the beans and get the juice out of the tomatoes, then add chili peppers and crush them. Add the green papaya, dried shrimp, toasted peanuts, fish sauce, lime juice and palm sugar. Mix well with the pestle and spatula.
