Steve Pope wrote:
> 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?
>
> I have made it and have never mortar/pesteled or blended anything.
> But obviously if you're starting with whole (rather than crushed
> or powdered) red pepper you will have to do something of the sort.
>
> Steve

I never thought of getting the chillies already grounded. I got a Magic
Chef blender recently and so it worked out well. Before I only had a
hand blender (Hamilton Beach) and so whenever I tried to make a paste
of anything, I couldn't really do it. So this is my 1st time trying
papaya salad.