Green Papaya Salad

Green Papaya Salad

Info

Rating
Calories
153.0
Protein
6.0
Sodium
839.0
Fat
4.0

Description

Anywhere you go in Laos, you will find women patiently preparing papaya for this salad. Using a small machete-like knife, they make repeated shallow parallel cuts, each about 1/8 inch deep, in a section of the papaya. Then they scrape the papaya from top to bottom so they end up with very nice julienne. A food processor fitted with the julienne disk or a manual slicer such as a mandoline works equally well.

Ingredients

1 (1- to 1 1/4-pound) green papaya
1 large tomato, chopped
2 ounce Asian-style beef jerky (optional), cut into fine julienne
2 large garlic cloves, minced
1 to 3 small (1-inch) fresh Asian chiles such as bird or Thai, minced
1 tablespoon minced peeled galangal or fresh ginger
4 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 1/2 tablespoons Asian fish sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
Accompaniment: soft-leaf lettuce

Directions

  1. Peel and seed papaya. Cut into large pieces and then julienne. Combine with tomato, jerky, garlic, chiles, and galangal in a large bowl. Stir together lime juice, fish sauce, and sugar in a small bowl until sugar is dissolved and toss with papaya mixture.
  2. Mound salad on a platter and serve with lettuce leaves for wrapping.

Tags

    Salad Fruit Vegetable Appetizer Side No-Cook Quick & Easy Papaya Spring Summer Healthy Gourmet Dairy Free Wheat/Gluten-Free Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free
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