Som Tum

🥘 Ingredients

• garlic 2 cloves
• Thai chiles 3
• kosher salt ¼ tsp
• long beans 3
• cherry tomatoes 6
• palm sugar 1 Tbs
• fish sauce 2 Tbs
• lime juice 2 Tbs
• dried shrimp 1 Tbs
• green papaya 3 cups
• roasted peanuts 2 Tbs

1. 1

   Pound garlic , Thai chiles and kosher salt to a rough paste in a tall clay mortar .
2. 2

   Bruise long beans and cherry tomatoes into @&( timer — a few strokes each, cracking them rather than crushing them.
3. 3

   Stir palm sugar , fish sauce , lime juice and dried shrimp into @&( timer until the sugar dissolves.
4. 4

   Bruise green papaya into @&( timer for 2 min , one hand pounding and the other turning it over with a spoon, until every strand is wet but the papaya still snaps.
5. 5

   Turn @&( timer out onto a plate with roasted peanuts .