Adventures in Thai Cooking & Travel
Ingredients for Green Papaya Salad

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Green Papaya Salad, or som dtom is one of Thailand's favorite salads. The Thai word dtam means "to pound" and this salad is made by combining shredded green papaya (as in this picture), garlic, tomatoes, chillies and long beans in a mortar a pestle and bruising them while adding fish sauce, lime juice and palm sugar. Salted crabs are optional.
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