Tasty Thai Som Tam Recipe (With Excellent Papaya Substitute!)

• 100g of prawns
• 130g of grated swede
• 5 cherry tomatoes (baby tomatoes are fine too)
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 1 1/2 tbsp lime juice
  
• 1 1/2 tbsp fish sauce
  
• 3 bird eye chillies (or more or even less, depending on your tolerance of spice)
• 1 clove of garlic
• 5 strings of green beans cut into quarters
• Handful of roasted cashew nuts

Special Cooking Equipment Used

• mortar and pestle
  

Cooking instructions

Step 1: Boil the prawns until pink and cooked (if you are using raw prawns)

Step 2: Whilst the prawns are boiling, peel and grate approx 130g of swede, cut 5 strings of green beans into quarters and trim the ends, and peel 1 clove of garlic

Step 3: Put the garlic, chilli, 1 of the green beans (i.e 4 pieces of quarters) and a pinch of the grated swede into a mortar and pestle, and grind until the ingredients are broken down. (you add the swede to stop the seeds of the chilli bouncing out of the mortar)

Step 4: Now that the chilli and garlic is crushed, you should add the rest of the swede and the green beans, and crush until the green beans are flattened.

Step 5: Cut the tomatoes in half, and add to the mortar, and break them down.

Step 6: Now add the prawns, fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, and peanuts and crush and mix everything together for a few minutes.