Papaya Salad

How to make Papaya Salad 

I'm sure all of you are familiar with papaya salad.  Very popular in the khmer, Lao, and Thai cultures.  This is a dish that is made very often during Cambodian new year as well.  salads are usually tossed together, but as for papaya salad it is pounded with a pestle in a mortar.

What you will need is a pestle and a mortar, 1 half of a papaya seeded, 3 tomatoes sliced into fours, 1/2 cup of dried shrimp, 8 cloves of garlic, 8 frozen or fresh siracha chillies, 4 limes halved

1/4 cup of fish sauce, 2 tbsp of shrimp paste, 2 1/2 tbsp of mud fish sauce, 1 tbsp of chicken bouillon, 1 tbsp of MSG, 1/2 tbsp of sugar. 

Start off by pounding the dried shrimp until it's broken into small pieces.  Remove from mortar and set aside. 

Add the garlic and siracha Chillies into the mortar and pound until broken into fine pieces. 

Add the shredded papaya, and tomatoes to the mortar. 

Add the fish sauce, mud fish sauce, MSG, chicken bouillon, shrimp paste, and sugar. Once added pound with pestle to incorporate the ingredients. 

Add the limes, and the dried shrimp. You do not need to use all four of the limes, just enough to adjust your liking.  Pound to incorporate remaining ingredients. 

Remove from mortar and serve as a side dish with rice and another main course, like stuffed chicken wings, or beef on a stick, or even fried chicken! 

Ingredients: 

1 half of a Papaya 

1/2 cup of dried shrimp

3 tomatoes cut into fours

8 cloves of garlic

4 limes halved (do not need to use all of the limes) 

8 frozen or fresh siracha chillies

1/4 cup of fish sauce

1 tbsp of MSG 

1 tbsp of chicken bouillon 

1/2 tsp of sugar

2 tbsp of shrimp paste

2 1/2 tbsp of mud fish sauce 

Directions: 

1. start off by pounding the dried shrimp inside of the mortar with the pestle until broken into small pieces.  Remove from mortar and set aside. 

2. Add the garlic, and chillies and pound until broken into pieces. 

3. Add the shredded papaya, tomatoes, fish sauce, mud fish sauce, MSG, sugar, chicken bouillon, and shrimp paste.  Pound until all ingredients are well incorporated. 

4. Add limes, and the broken up dried shrimp. you do not need to use all four limes just use as much lime to adjust to your liking. Pound until remaining ingredients are well incorporated. 

5. Remove from mortar and serve as a side dish. 

Hope you'll Enjoy this recipe!!!