Sauted Young Papaya with Stinky Beans

Achtung!

This food contained stinky beans!

I wasn’t a fan of stinky bean. When I was kid I always refused any food contained this bean. It was around two years ago when my housemate often brought me nasi goreng from a restaurant close to her office. The nasi goreng tasted bloody delicious and surprise surprise there are some stinky beans inside. So I started to like to beans. Not to eat it, but to have it in my food, to pick up the aroma only. But then, from the aroma, I decided to try one piece and soon, more pieces and well…Even now I’m not addicted to it but this beans really give exotic taste in the food. So I wont skip it anymore!

Like my friend said, the more you try, the more you like it

Ingredients:

- Half of medium size young papaya, peeled and finely sliced
- 3 cloves garlic, sliced
- 2 shallots, sliced
- 1 teaspoon Gandaria instant spice
- 1 teaspoon sweet soy sauce
- 5 pieces stinky beans (you can add as you wish), sliced
- salt
- 2 teaspoons palm sugar
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1cm galangal, ground
- Salt
- 4 Red Thai chilies, sliced
- ¼ cup water

Direction:

1. Saute garlic until fragrant
2. Add shallots, galangal, chilies and gandaria paste
3. Put stinky beans inside, stir
4. Put papaya inside, stir
5. Add water and keep stir papaya until wilted
6. At last, pour salt, sugar and sweet soy sauce