Uploaded February 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Making Som Tum (Green Papaya Salad - thai salad) - ส้มตำ
Som tum or som tam.
All over Thailand, food vendors pound together this irresistible combination of green papaya, chillies, fish sauce and lime.
The two most popular types of green papaya salad have either dried shrimp or salted crab. Green papaya salad with dried shrimp and peanuts is called som tum thai. My video shows the making of this type of salad. The other green papaya salad, using salted crab, is called som tum pbooh.
In Thailand, green papaya salad is made using a clay mortar, wooden pestle and a spatula. Smash a clove of garlic first. Then add halved tomatoes. Pound a few times just to get the juice out of the tomatoes. Add chili peppers and crush them just enough to release the hotness, unless you like your salad really hot. Add the green papaya, dried shrimp, toasted peanuts, fish sauce, lime juice and palm sugar. Use the pestle to push the mixture up in the mortar and the spatula to push it down so that the mixture is mixed well.
Music:
ON AND ON by Nicolai Heidlas Music
soundcloud.com/nicolai-heidlas
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Music provided by Audio Library youtu.be/Skxx0KnGGHw
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Making Som Tum (Green Papaya Salad - thai salad) - ส้มตำ
Som tum or som tam.
All over Thailand, food vendors pound together this irresistible combination of green papaya, chillies, fish sauce and lime.
The two most popular types of green papaya salad have either dried shrimp or salted crab. Green papaya salad with dried shrimp and peanuts is called som tum thai. My video shows the making of this type of salad. The other green papaya salad, using salted crab, is called som tum pbooh.
In Thailand, green papaya salad is made using a clay mortar, wooden pestle and a spatula. Smash a clove of garlic first. Then add halved tomatoes. Pound a few times just to get the juice out of the tomatoes. Add chili peppers and crush them just enough to release the hotness, unless you like your salad really hot. Add the green papaya, dried shrimp, toasted peanuts, fish sauce, lime juice and palm sugar. Use the pestle to push the mixture up in the mortar and the spatula to push it down so that the mixture is mixed well.
Music:
ON AND ON by Nicolai Heidlas Music
soundcloud.com/nicolai-heidlas
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Music provided by Audio Library youtu.be/Skxx0KnGGHw
Produced with CyberLink PowerDirector 14
