Asian Salad Recipes - Burma Green Papaya Salad (Thinnbaw-Thee Thoke) Recipe

Ingredients

• 150g (5oz) green papaya, peeled and grated into long thin strips 

For the dressing:

• 2 tablespoons groundnut oil

• 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced

• 1 heaped tablespoon small dried shrimp

• 4 small dried chilies, roughly chopped

• 2 tablespoons fish sauce

• 2 teaspoons tamarind water

• 2 teaspoons sugar

• 1 heaped tablespoon ground roast peanuts

Serves 4

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Method

1. Arrange the papaya shreds in a salad bowl and set aside.

2. Prepare the dressing: heat the oil in a wok or frying pan and fry the garlic until golden-brown. Remove and place in the salad bowl. Then fry the dried shrimp in the same way, remove and place in the salad bowl. Finally fry the chilies, remove and place in the salad bowl with all the remaining oil in the pan.

3. Add the fish sauce, tamarind water, sugar and ground peanuts to the salad bowl. Mix well and serve.