Green Papaya Salad (Vegan Version)
Green Papaya Salad is my absolute favourite dish in the Thai cuisine - it’s fresh, filling and delicious and has that sweet and sour thing going on. Some people like to make their Green Papaya Salad with dried shrimp or other dried seafood and since I don’t really enjoy that I decided to make mine leaving out the dried seafood and replacing the fish sauce with soy sauce. In the recipe below you’ll find both options (fish sauce and no fish sauce) but to be honest I enjoy the soy sauce version much more myself.
You can make Green Papaya Salad with Green Papaya but you can also make it with Green Mango or Jicama if these are easier for you to find.
Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Cooking Time: 15 Minutes
Ingredients for 2 Portions
Bird's Eye Chili - 3
Yardlong Bean - 1 (cut into 3 cm strips)
Garlic - 4 cloves
Tomatoes - 2
Brown Sugar - 1 Tbs
Fresh Lime Juice - 1 Tbs
Roasted Peanuts - 1 Tbs
Limes - 2 (cut into wedges)
Fish Sauce - 1 Tbs (for a vegan version or if you don’t want to use fish sauce use soy sauce)
Green Papaya - 120g (julienned - cut into strips)
Preparation:
Take a mortar and mix the chillies and the garlic together, then add the cut bean and lightly crush it too.
Add the diced tomatoes, the sugar, the roasted peanuts, the lime juice, the lime wedges and the fish sauce and mix everything together until the sugar has melted.
Add the papaya which you have julienned and mix everything together.