Tham Tua

Tham Tua is a variation on papaya salad — it has everything papaya salad would have, but substituting the green beans for the papaya. We eat it with sticky rice, but it would be good as a salad too. I use the Thai crock but I am guessing that a food processor would do the trick. You don’t want the end result to be a paste, though, more like a mash!

Smash to a fine paste:

• 2 green chilis
• 4 garlic cloves
•  2 t of shrimp paste (not necessary)
• 1/2 T palm sugar/ honey

Add and pound till well mixed

• 2 c green beans, cut in two inch lengths
• 2 ripe small tomatoes
• juice of one lemon or more
• fish sauce to taste or salt