THAI DURIAN AND GREEN PAPAYA SALAD ENJOY DAN:

          THAI DURIAN AND GREEN PAPAYA SALAD by CHEF DAN:

Serves 4-6

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups grated cucumber

3 tablespoons dry roasted peanuts

2 cups green papaya, slivered

8 cherry tomatoes, halved

2 cups durian, cut or shredded into small pieces

2 tablespoon lime juice

2 birds eye chilies, seeded and chopped

2 garlic cloves,

2 tablespoon fish sauce

2 tablespoons brown sugar

Sea salt to taste

GARNISH:

Long beans

Green cabbage

Thai sweet basil

More roasted peanuts

DIRECTIONS:

1.   Cut into the husk of the durian fruit and remove the pulpy inner flesh, place in a bowl; cut into chunks.

2.   Wash the green papaya, peel off the skin with carrot peeler.

3.   With a knife slice with numerous vertical cuts, then shave off the top layer into slivers, and repeat.

4.   Cut through the papaya to have a big handful.

5.   With a mortar and pestle, place garlic and chilies; pound into a paste.

6.   Add sugar, lime juice, fish sauce into the paste.

7.   Add the durian, green papaya, cucumber, tomatoes, pound lightly to crush.

8.    Pound until veggies are soft and have absorbed the juice.

9.   Serve inside a hallow out durian shell.

10.                Garnish with beans, cabbage, basil, or peanuts.

ENJOY DAN:                            SING SONGS AND PLANT VEGGIES!!