Green Papaya Side Dish
This green papaya salad is the perfect side dish for grilled or fired beef, chicken, or pork.
Equipment
- julienne peeler
Ingredients
- 5 cloves Garlic
- 2 tbsp Fish sauce
- 1 tbsp Brown sugar Alternatively, you can use 1 pod of palm sugar
- 2 tbsp White vinegar Fresh lime juice is an alternative
- 1 Green, unripe papaya
- 3 Cucumbers Baby cucumbers work best
- 1 Carrot
- 1 bulb Shallots
Instructions
- Peel the skin from the green papaya, then use the julienne peeler to julienne it into thin -- but crunchy -- strands.
- Julienne a full carrot using the same method described above.
- Slice the cucumbers into 2-inch long pieces, then cut lengthwise into fours.
- Clean and chop the shallot bulb.
- Clean the garlic cloves, them cut them into thin slices.
- Cut the chillies into thin slices.
- Combine the papaya, carrot, cucumbers, shallots, garlic, and chillies into a bowl.
- Add sugar, MSG, vinegar (or fresh lime juice) and fish sauce to the bowl and mix everything together.
- Your unripe papaya salad is ready to be served!