My Green Papaya Salad

Name: My Green Papaya Salad
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps palm or brown sugar, or more to taste; 177 milliliters julienned fresh long red chilies, such as Anaheim or Hungarian Wax; 1 Tbsp fresh cilantro root (4 roots), rinsed, scraped, and rinsed again; 473 milliliters julienned peeled cucumber; 1 Tbsp fish sauce, or more to taste; 1 Tbsp minced peeled fresh ginger; 1 teaspoons minced garlic; 237 milliliters julienned peeled green (unripe) mango; 473 milliliters julienned peeled green (unripe) papaya; 3 Juice of limes, or more to taste; 473 milliliters julienned peeled ripe mango; 237 milliliters loosely packed fresh Vietnamese mint (rau ram) leaves; 177 milliliters 1/2-inch-thick pineapple batons (size of a ladys pinkie); 177 milliliters lightly crushed salted roasted peanuts; 1 teaspoons minced shallot; 237 milliliters loosely packed fresh Thai basil leaves; 1 fresh Thai bird chili, or more to taste; 4 Chinese long beans, trimmed

You can never have too many side dish recipes, so give My Green Papaya Salad a try. This recipe makes 4 servings with 341 calories, 11g of protein, and 15g of fat each. This recipe covers 24% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and pescatarian diet. If you have thai basil leaves, long beans, cilantro root, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

MAKE THE DRESSING

Use a mortar and pestle to pound all the dressing ingredients until smooth, pounding each ingredient thoroughly before adding the next. taste and add more fish sauce, lime juice, chili, and/or palm sugar if you want. The flavor's up to you.

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Fish Sauce

Lime Juice

Palm Sugar

Chili Pepper

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Mortar And Pestle

MAKE THE SALAD

Heat a grill pan, cast-iron skillet, or grill until very hot.

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Grill Pan

Frying Pan

Grill

Cut the long beans into a manageable size for your pan, if necessary, then char the beans well on all sides, about 4 minutes total.

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Beans

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Frying Pan

Transfer them to a bowl, cover it tightly with plastic wrap, and let them steam for about 10 minutes.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Bowl

Cut the beans into 1/2-inch pieces and return them to the bowl.

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Beans

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Bowl

Tear the basil and mint leaves. Toss together the long beans with the papaya, cucumber, mango, pineapple, long red chilies, herbs, and the dressing. If you have a large enough mortar or want to work in batches and take the time to make the salad even better, pound the ingredients with the dressing just to bruise them and further infuse the ingredients with the flavor of the dressing. transfer the dressed salad to a serving bowl and sprinkle with the crushed peanuts.

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Mint