Green papaya salad with fennel
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Read about papayas in the BrightCulinary Book
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Ingredients
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- green papaya
- green beans
- cilantro
Bring blanching water to the boil; blanch the green beans and shock them in ice water, then julienne.
Green papaya salad ingredients
Make close vertical cuts lengthwise into the green papaya in one direction, then run a peeler over it so it comes off in julienne strips.
- fennel
- garlic
Slice the chilies super thin; cut the fennel.
Chilies, and a call to Jet Tila on the origin
- dried anchovies
- peanuts
- palm sugar
Press or pound the garlic; in the mortar and pestle pound the dried anchovies, peanuts and grated palm sugar until a fine paste.
Pounding the dressing in a mortar
- 6 whole limes
- fish sauce
Add plenty of lime juice and fish sauce for the dressing.
Lime juice and fish sauce
- 3–4 whole green chilies
- mint
- tomato
Toss the papaya, beans, chilies and fennel with the dressing by hand; add mint and cilantro and more whole peanuts on top for crunch. No salt is added because of the anchovies and fish sauce.
Tossing the salad with mint