Thai style papaya salad with grilled prawns

Papaya salad with grilled prawns

* This dish contains cashew nuts.

2 garlic cloves, finely chopped

2-3 Thai red chillies

50g fine green beans, cut into 1in length

1 unripe Thai green papaya, peeled and shredded

4 cherry tomatoes

1tbsp fish sauce

2tbsp palm sugar

1 lime

5-6 grilled king prawns

1tbsp dried shrimps (optional)

2tbsp peanuts or cashew nuts

1)   Grilled the king prawns. Leave them aside.

2)   Use a large mortar and pestle. Pound the chopped garlic and chillies.

3)   Add the green beans and break them up by using the pestle slightly. Add the shredded unripe papaya and stir with a spoon.

4)   Lightly pound all the ingredients together. Add the cherry tomatoes.

5)   Add the grilled prawns.

6)   Seasoning the salad with 1tbsp fish sauce, 2tbsp palm sugar and squeeze some lime juice. Stir it with a spoon.

7)   Add the peanuts or cashew nuts. Stir until they are mixed well.

8)   Serve the salad with sticky rice.