***Tomato and Cucumber Salad ตำแตงมะเขือเทศ

Today I cooked Tomato and Cucumber Salad ตำมะแตงมะเขือเทศ, just because I have my own garden

Ingredients:

• 1 cups shredded cucumber
• 1/3 cup of shredded carrot
• 1-2 cloves of garlic
• 3 mince fresh chillies
• 2 tbsp. roasted peanuts
• 3 tomato
  
• 3 tbsp. lime juice
• 1 tbsp. sugar
• 2 tbsp. tamarind sauce
• 1 tbsp. soy sauce
  
• 1 tsp. salt

Preparation:

• Peel the cucumber(s) and shred them in to thin pieces and remove 1 layer of skin from the carrot before shredding that.
• Cut open the chillies, remove the seeds and soak the skins in water for a few minutes. Remove the chilli skins, squeeze them dry and put in a mortar together with the garlic, cucumber, carrot, tomatoes and peanuts. Pound well while seasoning to taste with lime juice, soy sauce, salt, tamarind juice and sugar.
• Serve the Som Tam Taeng with cabbage and yard long beans.