This pounded salad is often served with sticky rice, and it is straight-up fire. First serve Though this dish is often ...

The simple answer to this dilemma is this: If your papaya tastes like dessert, eat it raw. If it tastes like a confused squash, cook it. Green papaya, for Green Papaya Kootu (Lentil Stew).

The Thai dish of som tam, or green papaya salad, is wonderfully refreshing. In restaurants, it's served as the cook makes it. But Thailand’s street stalls and specialist som tam shops will ...

They continue to ripen off of the vine, so rest assured that even if you pick a green papaya, it will ripen in time. A good, ripe papaya has a sweet, slightly musky flavor similar to cantaloupe.

Although the name of the green papaya salad ($8.95) might conjure images of a sweet fruit salad, the southeastern Asian delicacy really has more in common with the coleslaw you might find at a good ...

Green Papaya's version of the Vietnamese staple is big (as Texas) and hearty (as a motherf...never mind). There are fancier soups out there too. But the Oak Lawn restaurant's pho is simple and ...

Ripe papaya is also good in tropical fruit salads and puréed in smoothies. Use green papaya as a vegetable or turn into pickle. It is particularly good raw in Thai salads such as green papaya ...

1 large green papaya (see Note) or green mango (see Note) 2 tbsp grated palm sugar 3 large garlic cloves 2 red bird’s-eye chillies 1 tbsp dried prawns (see Note) 1 tbsp roasted peanuts, plus ...

Som Tam (Papaya Salad) Recipe: A delicious Thai salad, Som Tam is a green papaya salad recipe that combines all four tastes - sour, chilli, sweet and salty. A healthy and delicious treat for brunch, ...

They have also found that green papaya contains very high levels of vitamin C, which helps with their immune system. I was always the one to go forage for papaya and other ingredients in the ...