Green Papaya Salad

I was introduced to this amazing salad past times my cousin Seema as well as her hubby Naveen Anna when they were visiting us during the summertime of 2012. They are both die-hard foodies as well as my cousin is a groovy gear upward herself! She has this quote " I tin never lose weight because I dearest my ain cooking!" I accept learnt a few things from her. She is big on aesthetics as well as presentation. When she chops vegetables, they all accept to await a surely agency as well as each i should await similar the adjacent one! Anyways, coming dorsum to my salad, during their catch nosotros went to this real squeamish Thai eating seat Sripraphai as well as she ordered the raw papaya salad for me. I merely savage inward dearest amongst it! Ever since as well as so I accept been wanting to brand it. While at that topographic point are several ways to arrive as well as several recipes for this on the internet, the best I liked is the i on the website Thai nutrient tonight. I followed their recipe amongst slight tweaking of my own. The traditional greenish papaya salad likewise known every bit Som Tum calls for entirely fish sauce but I didn't desire to overpower the salad amongst it, so likewise used a picayune flake of soy sauce. I accept likewise used a picayune flake of olive fossil oil inward my dressing. I believe that it gives it a squeamish taste. The traditional recipe does non telephone telephone for the add-on of whatever sort of oil. I accept added fresh herbs similar cilantro as well as mint. Also the entire salad is made using a mortar as well as pestle. If you lot don't accept a mortar as well as pestle you lot could finely chop the garlic as well as chilly as well as lightly pound the ingredients on your cutting board as well as and so mix it inward a mixing bowl. You tin detect the master copy recipe here.

Servings: 6

Ingredients:

Green papaya: 1 medium
Tomatoes: 1 medium sliced lengthwise
Green chillies: 2-3 medium
Garlic: ii cloves, medium sized, peeled.
Jaggery: 1 tbsp
Lime juice: from 1 lime
Fish sauce: 2-3tbsp
Olive oil: 2tbsp
Soy sauce: 1tbsp
Green beans( string beans): 1 loving cup chopped into 1 inch pieces.
Roasted Peanuts: 1/2 loving cup crushed lightly
Cilantro leaves: 1 tbsp chopped
Mint leaves: 1 tbsp chopped

Method:

Peel the papaya as well as shred it.Discard the inner meat amongst seeds.

Keep the shredded papaya aside.

Boil ii cups of H2O amongst 1 tsp salt. Add the chopped beans as well as permit it gear upward for 3-4 minutes. Strain as well as operate along aside.

In a mortar, lightly rhythm the garlic as well as the greenish chillies.

Now add together the sliced tomatoes, jaggery as well as rhythm them lightly. Now add together the shredded papaya as well as lightly pound it.

Take it inward a bowl. Mix inward the fish sauce, soy sauce, olive oil, lime juice, cilantro as well as mint.

Garnish amongst steamed greenish beans as well as roasted chopped peanuts.

Enjoy!

Note:Make surely that the papaya is greenish as well as raw. If it is fifty-fifty a picayune yellow/ripe, the gustatory modality of the entire salad changes!

Cooking made easy:

Use dissimilar cutting boards for your vegetables as well as meat/fish. You tin fifty-fifty color code them. I accept a wooden i for my veggies as well as a plastic i for fish/meat. Doing this helps preclude cross-contamination.

Tip for salubrious living:

Papayas are fruits that are extremely nutrient-dense. The Mayans patently worshipped the papaya tree every bit their sacred " Tree of Life". Both raw as well as ripe papayas accept been works life to live beneficial for skillful health. Papayas are rich inward antioxidants, vitamins Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 & C as well as accept an enzyme called papain. Papain helps breakdown proteins as well as assist inward their digestion as well as thereby the wellness of our gut. It is likewise purported to accept meaning anti inflammatory properties thereby of groovy produce goodness inward chronic inflammatory weather condition as well as articulation pain.

References:
http://www.doctoroz.com/blog/susan-evans-md/papaya-secret-longevity-and-healthy-eating
http://www.medindia.net/patients/lifestyleandwellness/health-benefits-of-papaya.htm
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=47

Food for thought:

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