papaya salad
Shredded green fruit
Papaya salad is a Southeast Asian dish made from shredded unripe green papaya, typically dressed with lime juice, fish sauce, chili, and garlic.
The Thai version, som tam, often includes peanuts and dried shrimp.
The salad is crunchy, spicy, sour, and savory: We ordered papaya salad as a starter.
- green mangoUnripened tropical stone fruit
- Southeast AsianFrom that tropical peninsula region
- spicyHaving strong heat
- limeAcidic green citrus
- fish sauceFermented anchovy condiment
fish paste · chili · mortar · pestle · peanuts · dried shrimp · garlic · tangy · crunchy · street food · night market · side dish · sticky rice · sour · palm sugar · tomatoes · long beans · pounding
- Khmer foodamok, jasmine rice, sticky rice, rice noodles, fish sauce
- Isansticky rice
- Lao Foodlap, sticky rice
- tropical dishescoconut rice, mango sticky rice, pineapple fried rice, jerk chicken, poke bowl
- papaya foods
- Thai salads
cooking method
papaya saladstew
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roast · pot roast · grilled meat · stir-fry · braise
flavor profile
papaya saladmashed potatoes
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plain bread · congee · plain rice · white rice · vanilla pudding