While in Chiang Mai, I took a cooking class in a local school to get better acquainted with local techniques and ingredients. I learned to make a few traditional dishes and will make sure to try and re-create them. I wanted to share my favorite recipes here, starting with the famous Green Papaya Salad - typical dish from the Isaan region of Thailand.
If you plan on visiting Chiang Mai and would like to do the same, I attended the class at Asia Scenic Cooking School.
Photo by MP Charette for Dee & Duke.
PAPAYA SALAD (SOM TAM or SOM TUM)
adapted from the Asia Scenic cookbook
INGREDIENTS
1-3 small chillies
A few green beans, cut into 1-inch long pieces
2-3 cloves of garlic
¼ tomato, sliced
1 tsp roasted peanuts
1 green papaya (unripe papaya), shredded
1 tsp palm sugar (can be replaced by brown sugar or a mixture of white sugar and maple syrup)
2 tsp fish sauce (can be replaced by soy sauce)
1 tbsp lime juice
MATERIAL
Mortar and pestle (can be replaced by a bowl and a meat pounder)
PREPARATION
Pound chillies, beans and garlic together in the mortar until they start to break.
Add tomato, palm sugar, fish sauce and lime juice. Mix.
Add shredded papaya. Mix.
Sprinkle roasted peanuts on top.
Eat and be merry.
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