Papaya salad with dried shrimps is very popular, and I really love the recipe, love the flavours of the hot chilli with garlic in fish sauce, the sweet and salty dried shrimps, the fresh taste of the papaya. As I am on a diet dinner, I was thinking of making this salad today, but I decided to replace the Chinese cabbage with green papaya to see how it goes. And I was very happy with the result, I even prefer to the taste of green papaya.
Here is the simple recipe.
200 g Chinese cabbage, clean and thinly sliced.
3 bird's-eye chillies
3 cloves garlic
1 small carrot cut in half length way and thinly sliced
2 tablespoons unsalted roasted peanuts
1 tablespoon dried shrimps
1 ripe tomato
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 pinch of sugar
1 tablespoon fish sauce
Pound roughly the garlic and chillies in a mortar and pester or process very briefly in a blender. Mix with the cabbage, carrot then add peanuts, dried shrimps and tomato, mix well. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix again.
Cover and chill in the fridge for half an hour. Served best with roasted chicken. Enjoy!
Here is the simple recipe.
200 g Chinese cabbage, clean and thinly sliced.
3 bird's-eye chillies
3 cloves garlic
1 small carrot cut in half length way and thinly sliced
2 tablespoons unsalted roasted peanuts
1 tablespoon dried shrimps
1 ripe tomato
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 pinch of sugar
1 tablespoon fish sauce
Pound roughly the garlic and chillies in a mortar and pester or process very briefly in a blender. Mix with the cabbage, carrot then add peanuts, dried shrimps and tomato, mix well. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix again.
Cover and chill in the fridge for half an hour. Served best with roasted chicken. Enjoy!
