Long Beans Som Tam Recipe with Fish Cake and Boiled Eggs

fish sauce

🥗Healthier: soy sauce

💰Cheaper: salt + water

Soy sauce offers a similar umami flavor while being vegetarian.

palm sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: brown sugar

Brown sugar provides sweetness at a lower cost.

peanuts

🥗Healthier: sunflower seeds

💰Cheaper: cashews

Sunflower seeds are nut-free and lower in cost.

long beans

🥗Healthier: asparagus

💰Cheaper: green beans

Green beans are more widely available and affordable.

Soak the long beans in room temperature water for 1 hour.

Prepare the fish cake by frying it in a pan with a bit of cooking oil until golden brown, about 2-3 minutes on each side, then let it cool on a rack.

Cut the long beans into 1.5-inch pieces and rinse them.

Cut the tomatoes into small pieces after removing the stems.

Squeeze the lime for juice, using one lime for now.

In a clay mortar, pound 8 pieces of bird's eye chili and 2 cloves of garlic until fine.

Add in the shrimp paste and pound until incorporated.

Add the long beans to the mortar and pound until they are slightly smashed, about 3 minutes.

Add 1 tbsp of sugar, 1 tbsp of fish sauce, and 1.5 tbsp of lime juice, then continue to pound and mix with a spatula.

Taste the mixture and adjust seasoning with 3/4 tbsp of fish sauce and 1/2 tbsp of sugar if needed.

Add the cut tomatoes and pound for about 15 seconds to mix.

Add the fried fish cake and mix well.

Serve immediately with halved hard-boiled eggs on the side.

Cooking Techniques

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