Thai Green Papaya Salad Recipes
Welcome to Somtum.info. This site provide information about thai and Laos green papaya salad and recipes.

This site is called Somtum because its a very unique name and most importantly, its recipe I cannot live without.  Here you will find recipes to different popular local flavors of green papaya salad.  These receipes are very easy to make and the ingredients are easily to acquired.

Great Diet Dish
Somtum is an effective and tasty way to lose weight. You will shed those extra pounds if eaten regularly.  It’s one of those dishes that the more you eat, the more you lose. It is popularly eaten with sticky rice throughout Southeast Asia.  You can eat to your heart's content because this dish has practically no calories.

Thailand's Favorite Receipe
Food lovers enjoy this dish with total abandonment.  A survey done in Thailand ranked this dish as #1 most popular salad in Thailand among women.  This dish gives food lovers such satisfaction due to its taste and flavor as well as the crunchy freshness that is to die for.

Eat it with anything
It goes great with bbq beef, chicken, or pork. It adds huge flavor to all bland food. That is why in my house hold, its serves as a condiment, side dish, snack, as well as main course which can be eaten anytime of day, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner even eaten for those midnight cravings.

Thai green papaya salad also known as "Somtum ma la kor" in Thai and "Tum mak hoong" in Laos is a local dish eaten everywhere in Thailand and Laos. There are basically three main methods to prepare Somtum.

The first of which is "Somtum Thai" which contains dried shrimp, peanuts and string bean.

The second is "Somtum pbloo" having small pickled crabs incorporated. 

Finally, the third method "Somtum Lao sai pla ra" is one which substitutes the juice of pickled mud fish instead of the ingredients previously mentioned, crab and peanuts. 

This Green papaya salad has a tart, spicy, salty, sweet, and sour taste that will have your palette screaming in delight. The slightly tart flavor of the green papaya combines well with the spice of red chili pepper and the saltiness of shrimp paste and fish sauce, the sweetness of palm sugar, and the sourness of the lime.