New Favorite Food: Papaya Salad

Ingredients

• 1 clove of garlic
• 2 chilies - or as many as you like.
• ¼ cup roasted peanuts
• ½ cup tomatoes
• ½ cup green beans
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 2 tablespoons palm sugar
• 2 tablespoons of fish sauce
• 2 cups of shredded green papaya

Cooking

• Shred green papaya
• Slice tomatoes
• Chop green beans
• Put garlic and chili peppers into mortar, smash them into small pieces
• Add peanuts, smash them into small pieces
• Add palm sugar, pound away
  
• Add lime, fish sauce, pound it until it mixes well
• Add green papaya and green beans and mix
  
• Garnish with roasted peanuts

This is a delicious hot, nutty and tangy salad that can be found for sale at numerous shops and street carts in our hood. I'm not a salad person, but this stuff is awesome!

An optional ingredient is the long black worm that Mel found in her last salad take out box. Ewww.