Papaya Salad (Som Tum)

• 2      cups   shredded green papaya
• 1/2  cup     shredded carrot
• 1/2 cup       sting bean (cut into 1" long)
• 2 tablespoons   fish sauce
• 1  1/2 tablespoons palm sugar (or brown sugar)
• 3 tablespoons    lime juice
• 1/2 cup       tomato (wedged)
• 1/3 cup       dried shrimps (optional) soaked with warm water before use. 
• 1/4 cup        roasted peanuts
• 5  green   chillies
• 3  cloves  fresh garlic

Preparations

• Use mortar and pestle to crush the chillies and garlic.
• Add string bean, papaya and carrot then mix it well in the mortar. 
• Add palm sugar, fish sauce, lime juice.  The taste should be sweet, salty, sour and hot equally. 
• Once you get the right taste for your salad add in dried shrimps and peanut. Mix them well before serving. 

If you don't have mortar and pestle then no worries. You can mince the garlic and chillies and mix the salad in a salad bowl.