Spicy Green Papaya and Seafood Salad

Ingredients

3-4 chillies, to taste
1 garlic cloves, peeled
6 cherry tomatoes, halved
3 tablespoons fish sauce
3 tablespoons lime juice
1 teaspoon tamarind water
3-4 tablespoons brown sugar (or shredded palm sugar), to taste
1 cup shredded green papaya (paw paw)
4 medium-sized cooked prawns, peeled
4 cooked octopus, halved
4 fish balls, halved
4-5 long coriander leaves, coarsely chopped
2 table spoons roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped

Optional
Sliced pickled mustard greens
Trimmed bean sprouts
100 g boiled rice vermicelli

Using a pestle and mortar, pound the chilli and garlic to a coarse paste. Add shredded papaya (paw paw), cherry tomatoes, lime juice, tamarind water, fish sauce and brown sugar to the mortar and lightly bruise with the pestle and use a spoon with your other hand to fold the mixture ( It should taste spicy, sour, salty and sweet). Finally, add long coriander, prawns, octopus, fish balls, pickled mustard, bean sprouts and rice vermicelli and carefully work everything together.