Fried Papaya Salad

Ingredients

2 cups grated papaya

1/2 cup Crispy flour

1 cup Water

For the sauce

4 pips Garlic

5 fresh red/green Chili

1 ¼ tbsp Fish sauce (Substitute - Worcestershire sauce or Soy sauce)

1 tbsp Palm sugar (Jaggery) or Substitute with molasses

4 tbsp Lime

2 Tomato

2 tbsp Oyster sauce - substitute with Dried shrimp

Method

Wash and peel the papaya and grate the papaya and add into a bowl. Add the flour and water and mix nicely.  Then heat the oil and deep fry batches of papaya and add onto draining paper.

How to make crispy flour at home or tempura flour substitute

4 tbsp of wheat flour. 2 tbsp of corn flour. And half teaspoon of baking powder

Add the ingredients in a bowl use a whisk to mix all the ingredients until well combined.

Make a sauce

Put the garlic and red chili in a grinder and grind well and then add the fish sauce, sugar and lime juice and then cut tomatoes and add and pound a bit, add the dried shrimp and if you like add peanuts on top of the sauce (optional)

Place the sauce in a bowl, then place the bowl on a plate and arrange the fried papaya on the side and add salad leaves and a few cut fresh tomatoes if you wish.

NB:

Rice flour

Rice flour and corn starch work particularly well because they fry up crispier than wheat flour. They also absorb less moisture and fat during the frying process, making the products less greasy. This is why rice flour is often used when making tempura because it produces a very thin and crispy, dry crust.

Corn starch typically makes for a crispier finish than flour. Corn starch absorbs moisture from the food and expands, giving deep-fried foods a crispy coating. When the food is fried, the moisture cooks out of the corn starch, leaving a crackly, puffy coating on the outside