Green papaya is a good Tonic for the stomach

and aid to digestion. Tropical folks have traditionally used the fruit to relieve gastritis, diverticulitis. Diarrhea, Cough, cold, allergies, erteriosderosis, and even cancer. (Green papaya’s cancer-healing property stems from the fact ‘hat it contains the protease enzyme papain, an anticancer agent, and carpaine, an antitumorigenic compound.)

A tasty way to stock the body with green papaya is Sam Tom Yam. the most popular Thaihawker dish eaten daily by the locals all over the country, though perhaps not in the authentic style,since a Thai can put as many as 15 chilliest intone serving!

Moreover, the Thais usually partake 01 the papaya salad with white sticky rice that can act like super-glue in the digestive tract. Each syllable of this papaya salad’s name can be translated respectively into “sour” . ” to pound “. and “too mix”. The dressing for the salad is known as’ Same Same but

Different Fish Sauce”, blended from shoyu (a type of soy sauce). apple cider vinegar, date. Dulse flakes, sesame oil and hiziki seaweed. But one warning. The dish may prove to be so addictive that other foods get disregarded.

“..so addictive that other foods gel disregarded”

Recipe

30 minutes/2 persons

Salad

2 cups green (unripe) papaya. shredded on the side of a grater with large holes or a serrated vegetable peeler ½ red pepper. cut into long thin slices, ½ carrot, shredded on the side of a grater with large holes or a serrated vegetable peeler, 4 long green beans, finely chopped or pounded 1 cove of garlic, minced or pounded, ¼ cup red onion, minced or pounded, 2 Thai chilies, minced or pounded, ½ tablespoon ginger, minced or pounded, 2 Tomatoes.chopped or pounded, 10 pieces of cashew, chopped or pounded, 1 lime, juiced, ¼ cup fresh cilantro, chopped, ¼ cup fresh basil. Chopped ¼ cup fresh mint, chopped, 4 tablespoons Same Same but Different Fish Sauce, 1 teaspoon Agave Nectar, ½ teaspoon salt

Same Same but Different Fish Sauce 3 tablespoons hiziki seaweed, soaked in 1/3 cup of water, 1½ teaspoons sesame oil.2 tablespoons dulse fIakes, ½, large date, ¼ teaspoon apple cider vinegar, 1 ½ teaspoons nama shoyu

I. Pound the ingredients for the salad together with mortar and

pestle or mince, chop and mix themin a bowl. Pound the chilies. ginger,

onion, and garlic first before adding a little of the other ingredients.

2 Toss in a small lime rind piece foradditional flavor.

3. Blend all the ingredients for thesauce including the one-third cup

of water until smooth.