Bangkok Street Food'S Green Papaya Salad

• 200 grams green papaya (about 1 cup)
• 1 to 2 garlic cloves
• 2 to 5 small bird's eye chiles
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 to 2 teaspoons palm sugar
• 2 snake beans (long beans), cut into 1/2-inch lengths
• 2 tablespoons roasted peanuts
• 4 cherry tomatoes, halved
• 2 tablespoons dried baby shrimps
• 1 Thai eggplant, sliced (optional)
• 2 to 3 tablespoons fish sauce
• 1 to 2 tablespoons lime juice

1. Peel and shred the green papaya. Pound the garlic with chiles, salt, and sugar in a clay mortar with a wooden pestle. Add snake beans, peanuts, tomatoes, dried shrimps and when using Thai eggplant, now is the time.
2. Keep pounding and mixing simultaneously with a large spoon. Season it with fish sauce and lime. Fold in the green papaya and continue pounding and mixing until the papaya is coated with the dressing.

green papaya, garlic, chiles, salt, palm sugar, snake beans, peanuts, tomatoes, baby shrimps, eggplant, fish sauce, lime juice

Taken from www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/03/green-papaya-salad-thai-recipe.html (may not work)