Green papaya salad is one of the most refreshing side dishes, and is a staple in our home! Whenever we go to parties or gatherings, everyone always requests us to bring our papaya salad! Although this isn’t the authentic Thai Green Papaya Salad recipe, here’s our take and our version of our most requested green papaya salad 😉

Gotta be different, ya know? Not all papaya salads are the same!! Instructions with pics are at the bottom 🙂

Green Papaya Salad

Papaya salad is made from unripe papayas and is a staple in our household! This is our recipe and our version on the famous thai papaya salad!

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Prep Time 20

Total Time 20

Servings 5 people

Ingredients

1 unripe green papaya
8 cloves garlic (peeled)
2 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp sugar
4 juices from limes
14 oz seasoned salted sea crab
1 cup tomatoes
1 cup kambo papaya salad sauce
1 tsp msg
1 cup coarsely chopped cabbage

optional

4 sliced shallots
1 bunch asian string beans cut into 1 inch pieces
1 bunch chopped up culantro leaves
1 tbsp dried shrimp
1 fresh thai bird chilies
1 tbsp dry roasted peanuts
3 leaves thai mint leaves

Instructions

If using cutting board:

finely chop up your garlic
shred your green unripe papaya into a large bowl – throw away the skin, membrane and seeds
chop up your cabbage and add it to the bowl of shredded papaya
pour in your kambo papaya salad sauce, sugar, msg, fish sauce, chopped garlic, and lime juice and toss all together
add chopped tomatos, culantro leaves (optional), chopped string beans (optional), seasoned salted crab and mix
garnish with mint leaves and dried peanuts

If using mortar:

pound garlic, dried shrimp (optional), Thai chili (optional), sugar, salt, msg, fish sauce and shallot (optional), and squeeze lime juice until a paste is formed
remove paste from mortar and set aside
shred your green unripe papaya into a large bowl – throw away the skin, membrane and seeds
transfer papaya to the mortar and add paste back on top
pour in your kambo papaya salad sauce on top and toss
add chopped tomatos, culantro leaves (optional), chopped string beans (optional), seasoned salted crab and mix
garnish with mint leaves and dried peanuts

Instructions for green papaya salad

chop up your garlic cloves

shred your green papaya

pour the lime juice, msg, fish sauce, sugar, papaya salad sauce and garlic on top of the cabbage and papaya. we love using the kambo papaya salad sauce, but it’s been hard to find lately! we have 2 other options in the picture as a replacement 🙂

slice your tomatoes and any of your other aromatics and toppings (culantro leaves, string beans, chopped shallots) we didn’t have much on hand, so we just used tomatoes!

and enjoy!

unfortunately, we didn’t have any of the other optional ingredients on hand (which we typically do) so our papaya salad doesn’t look as colorful! 🙁 but, it’s super duper delicious and I hope you enjoy it as much as my family does!

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Try Our Version of the Thai Green Papaya Salad