Tam Khao Pod

Name: Tam Khao Pod
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 2 cups sweetcorn kernels, cooked; 6 cherry tomatoes; 2 long beans, cut short; 2 tbsp roasted peanuts and 1 tbsp dried shrimp; 2 chillies and 2 garlic cloves; Lime juice, fish sauce and palm sugar; 1 salted egg, halved (optional)

ตำข้าวโพด/tam kao POHD/

Also known as: Som Tum Khao Pod, Thai Corn Salad, Corn Som Tam

About this dish

A sweet-sour-spicy pounded salad of fresh corn with tomatoes, long beans, peanuts and salted egg, made like som tum.

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Ingredients

🌽2 cups sweetcorn kernels, cooked

🍅6 cherry tomatoes

🫛2 long beans, cut short

🥜2 tbsp roasted peanuts and 1 tbsp dried shrimp

🌶️2 chillies and 2 garlic cloves

🍋Lime juice, fish sauce and palm sugar

🥚1 salted egg, halved (optional)

Method

Serves 3

Pound the garlic and chillies in a mortar.

Add the palm sugar, fish sauce and lime juice and stir to dissolve.

Add the beans and tomatoes and bruise lightly.

Add the corn, peanuts and dried shrimp and toss with the pestle and a spoon.

Serve with the salted egg.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Corn som tum is one of the many 'tam' (pounded salads) of Isan and Thai street stalls, milder and sweeter than papaya salad.

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