Som Tum (Green Papaya Salad)

• For the dressing
• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 limes, juiced
• 1/4 cup fish sauce
• 2 tablespoons palm sugar (or regular sugar)
• 3 crushed Thai bird peppers (optional or remove seeds to adjust)
• For the salad
• 2 cups shredded green papaya
• 8 to 10 cherry tomatoes
• 3/4 cup shredded carrots
• 3/4 cup long green beans, cut into 1" pieces
• 1/8 cup roasted peanuts, chopped for garnish(optional)
• 1 handful cilantro leaves for garnish

1. In a mortar, smash the garlic into a paste.
2. Add the chili peppers and smash lightly.
3. Move to a separate bowl and add the remaining 'dressing' ingredients. Adjust to your taste.
4. In the mortar add the 'salad' ingredients to fill up to half the mortar. Bruise the vegetables using the pestle.
5. Add some of the dressing and lightly pound the dressing into the vegetables.
6. Continue until all the salad and dressing is mixed.
7. Garnish with peanuts and cilantro

dressing, garlic, fish sauce, palm sugar, bird peppers, salad, shredded green papaya, tomatoes, carrots, long green beans, peanuts, handful cilantro

Taken from food52.com/recipes/12932-som-tum-green-papaya-salad (may not work)