Step 1

Cut the long beans in medium long pieces.Cut the tomatoes in slices.Peel and shred the unripe green papaya.

Step 2

Pound the dried chilies and the fresh chilies with the garlic.

Step 3

Add the long beans in the mortar and pestle. Crush them lightly with the pestle.

Step 4

Add the fish sauce, fermented fish sauce, palm sugar and tamarind paste. Mix it with the other ingredients.

Step 5

Squeeze the lime into the pestle and mix the peel with the rest.

Step 6

Add the tomatoes and papaya slices into the mortar. Gently mix everything together with the help of a big spoon. Make sure that the papaya slices absorb all of the ingredients.

Step 7

The som tam pla ra is now finished. Pair with some sticky rice for a real authentic Isan meal.