Som Tum or Som Tam is the famous Thai dish that you should try. This dish normally combines with 4 main tastes; sour from lemon juice, hot from chili, salty from fish sauce and sweetness from palm sugar. The word ‘Som Tum’ is originally called for a spicy papaya salad. But later Som Tum is created in various styles, we can use fruits (Tum Phon-la-mai), vegetables (Tum-Paa), or even rice noodles (Tum Kanom Jin) in Som Tum. I definitely love the papaya salad. But some times here in US, it’s not easy to find nice, crispy and non-bitter green papaya. So that’s why I choose this recipe. I will show you how to make Som Tum which you can find the ingredients easily and make yummy spicy salad from general fruits that we can have every day.
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups Freshly cut mixed fruits(pineapple, green apple, seedless grapes, red pomegranate)
- 4 Cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 tbsp Dried shrimps, soaked in the water to soft
- ¼ cup 1-inch cut Long green been (optional)
- 3 cloves Fresh Garlic
- 4-5 Hot green chili peppers
- 2 tbsp Roasted peanuts
- 1 ½ -2 tbsp Brown sugar, or 1 tbsp of Palm sugar
- 2 tbsp Fish sauce*
- 2 ½ tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 tbsp Tamarind juice
* If you are not a fan for fish sauce or can’t resist for the smell, you can substitute by dissolve ½ tsp of salt in the tamarind juice before seasoning.
How to make
- In a mortar, crush chilies, garlic, shrimp, and roasted peanuts with a pastel.
- Add tomatoes and green been, season with sugar, fish sauce, lemon juice and tamarind juice. Mix to just combine.
- In a large bowl, bring the cut mixed fruits. Pour over the fruit with spicy salad dress and toss evenly or gently mix with spoon.
- Top with another 3 tbsp of roasted peanuts or cashew nuts.
- Serve with sticky rice or fresh green salad.
I hope you enjoy with my recipe.
@Fatimah’s Kitchen
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Yes Uffaq, it is very tasty. You can try out some time. I’m sure you will like it. Because you love spicy foood.
very nice and looks very tasty auntie yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm!