The Thai dish of som tam, or green papaya salad, is wonderfully refreshing ... Som tam should be made with a mortar and pestle. With this old-fashioned but useful implement, lightly crush ...

Thai salads ... chillies in a pestle and mortar and crush them, followed by the garlic. Add the brown sugar, lime juice and fish sauce and mix through. Add the sauce to the salad and mix ...

This delicious spicy seafood salad combines the four elements of Thai cooking ... with the other dressing ingredients in a pestle and mortar. Set aside. For the salad, clean and prepare the ...