SomTam - Vegetable Peanut Salad- Thai Recipe.

 

        

            

      SOM TAM – VEGETABLE .PEANUT SALAD. 

                              THAI RECIPE

    INGREDIENTS

·      carrot, 4 cups, carrot skin peeled off and the carrot grated or sliced into 1-inch slender matchsticks size.

·      • green beans, 2 cups, beans trimmed at both ends and cut into 1-inch pieces

·      • cherry tomatoes, 12, tomatoes sliced in half

·      • garlic, about 1 tablespoon, finely minced

·      • 1 Thai hot chili –( you can add more if it is not

 

      spicy enough for your liking; slice the chile into the thinnest rings    you can so it spreads the chile heat evenly through the rest of the dressing)

 

 • lime juice, 3 tablespoons

• soy sauce, 1-2 tablespoons, to taste

• sugar, 1 teaspoon

 • unsalted peanuts, 4 tablespoons, hard outer shell removed, toasted in a dry pan for about 2 minutes until light brown but not burned

 

 INSTRUCTION

 

1. First dry roast the peanuts. You should dry fry the peanuts to give them a toasted and smoky flavor. Do not put oil into  the wok or saucepan. Place a dry wok or saucepan over medium heat. Put the peanuts to the pan and stir constantly for about 2 minutes to prevent them from burning. When the outside of the peanuts get a little brown, the peanuts are ready. Take the peanuts from the pan and put into a mixing bowl and let cool.

 

2. Then Add the garlic, chile, sugar, lime juice and soy sauce to the  peanuts in the mixing bowl. Stir the mixture throughly let the sugar dissolves in the lime juice and soy sauce, about 20 seconds is enough.

 

3  Next add the carrot, tomato and green beans into the mixing bowl and mix to coat the vegetables with the dressing.  You dhould taste to see whether you have got a balance between salty, sweet, tangy/sour and spicy. If you think  the salad is too spicy, you can add a little more sugar to reduces the sting of chile. You can  serve it  at room temperature.

Now you can enjoy the tasty vegetable peanut salad, Som Tam as it is called in Thailand.

 

 

This dish is called “Som Tam” in Thai restaurant menus. In Thai culinary terms, “Som” means “tangy” and “Tam” means to pound and mix the ingredients together so they are well blended in the Salad.