Amanda wrote:
> I am going to make it for myself today (not for my vegetarian friend
> who's visiting yesterday).
>
> Every recipe for Thai Green Papaya Salad asks to use Mortar and pestle.
> I don't have one and I don't like that much manual labor of pounding.
>
> Anyone tried with blender to make the paste of chillies and other
> required stuff ? How did it come out?
>


What about buying chilli paste at an Oriental grocery store? (the good
ones also contain garlic, but that's probably OK.) Where'd you find the
green papayas? (A SE Asian guy that I used to work with, I think he was
from Laos, said shredded raw carrots substitute pretty good for the green
papaya -- you end up with a different dish, but very similar.)

Best regards,
Bob