Thai Food Recipe: Som Tam Bla Rah!
Posted on January 9, 2007
Filed Under chili peppers, isaan, salad, som tam, sour and spicy, spicy
Thai Food Recipe: ส้มตำปลาร้า Som Tam Bla Rah!
(Spicy papaya salad with fermented fish/crab sauce)
Thai Food: ส้มตำปลาร้า
Som Tam Bla Rah!
(Spicy papaya salad with fermented fish/crab sauce)
5 peppers
3 garlic
1 tomato (sliced)
1 eggplant (sliced)
1 fermented crab
1 handful chopped papaya
1 tbsp. fish sauce
3 tbsp. fermented fish juice (Bla rah)
2 pieces lemon
1 tsp. sugar or palm sugar
Som Tam Instructions:
1. Pound chili peppers and garlic together. Add tomato, eggplant, and fermented crab. Then, mix it with fish sauce, bla rah, lemon, and sugar.
2. Use a pestle to crush and mix all the ingredients together. Starting with garlic, chilies and then the rest.
3. Put papaya in and mix it by pestle or spoon. Now your som tam bla rah is ready to be served.
4. Lay fresh vegetable, cucumber, cabbage, string bean or morning glory for example, on the side. Cucumber is good for taking away some of the spiciness of the chilies. So too is eating each bite with some rice. Eating som tam plain without rice is sacreligious in Thailand.
Som Tam Tip
Using a pestle to pound and mix the ingredients with papaya makes the sauce get into the papaya better than stirring. It will also make your Som tam juicy!
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Som Tam Bla Rah (blara, plara, pla rah) is an amazing dish that is addictive after a short time. If you like hot spicy chili dishes and you also like sour, this is the perfect Thai food dish. You just need to get used to eating fermented fish sauce, which I got over by the second time I ate som tam bla ra. Most western people can’t eat it but if you come to Thailand and you can eat it - the Thais’ will adopt you as one of their own. Don’t worry, even most Thais can’t eat it very spicy - it can be TOO MUCH! If you try it - make sure you say “mai pedt” or, (my pet) which means not spicy. They will still use a couple chilis and it will still be spicy - but you won’t die from it. In Isaan - the Northeast where Joy is from they grab a handful of super spicy, large red and green chilis. There are 15 or more peppers. If you can eat that, you ARE Thai. I can eat half a meal of it - but need to switch to something cooler for the 2nd half of the meal. Still - I find myself sneaking some more bites at the end of the meal. Som tam plara IS addictive. No doubt! - Vern, Joy’s husband
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