Raw Papaya Salad (Som Tam)

This is a Thai Salad – very colourful easy to prepare, tasty and healthy too. I make this often as raw papayas are available here throughout the year. I have slightly modified the ingredients to suit our Indian taste.

Ingredients:

Raw Papaya (small)	¼ pc
Tomato	1
Crushed roasted peanuts	2 tbsps
Chopped long beans (chowli)	1 tbsp
Dry red chilly (Kashmiri)	1
Jaggery (palm sugar)	2 tbsps
Lime juice	1 tbsp
Chopped corriander leaves	for garnishing

Method:

• Peel and grate the raw papaya & cut tomatoes lengthwise.
• In a mortar, pound red chilly, long beans and jaggery.
• Put the above ingredients (papaya, tomatoes and the pounded mixture) in a bowl.
• Now add to it the crushed roasted peanuts and the lime juice. Mix well
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve.

Note :

While making this salad, long beans was not at hand so I had to omit it. It still tasted good!

This is one salad in which no salt is added.