My Green Papaya Salad Recipe | Epicurious

Name: My Green Papaya Salad Recipe | Epicurious
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon fresh cilantro root (4 roots), rinsed, scraped, and rinsed again; 1 tablespoon minced peeled fresh ginger; 1 fresh Thai bird chili, or more to taste; 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic; 1/2 teaspoon minced shallot; 2 tablespoons palm or brown sugar, or more to taste; 1 tablespoon fish sauce, or more to taste; Juice of 3 limes, or more to taste; 4 Chinese long beans, trimmed; 1 cup loosely packed fresh Thai basil leaves; 1 cup loosely packed fresh Vietnamese mint (rau ram) leaves; 2 cups julienned peeled green (unripe) papaya; 2 cups julienned peeled cucumber; 1 cup julienned peeled green (unripe) mango; 2 cups julienned peeled ripe mango; 3/4 cup 1/2-inch-thick pineapple batons (size of a lady's pinkie); 3/4 cup julienned fresh long red chilies, such as Anaheim or Hungarian Wax; 3/4 cup lightly crushed salted roasted peanuts

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Every Southeast asian country has some variation of green papaya or mango salad. Since it doesn't taste like much (nice texture, though), it's all about the supporting cast as far as delivering...