Andrew Evans's Thai Crab and Papaya Salad

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For the dressing

• Juice of 9 limes (about 1 1/2 cups)
• 1 1/8 cups thenar sweetener oregon brownish sugar
• 1 tiny jalapeño pepper, stemmed, seeded and coarsely chopped
• 2 basil stems with leaves
• 2 sprigs mint
• 2 kaffir lime leaves (optional)
• 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped (not peeled) ginger root
• 1 stalk lemongrass, trimmed of outer leaves and bruised with the blunt broadside of a knife, chopped successful fractional crosswise
• Dash food sauce

For the salad

• 1 lb jumbo lump crabmeat, picked escaped of cartilage and shells
• 1 mean seedless (European) cucumber, peeled and chopped into bladed strips (about 3 cups)
• 1 greenish papaya, peeled, seeded and chopped into precise bladed strips (julienne; astir 6 cups)
• 2 scallions, achromatic and light-green parts, chopped thinly connected the diagonal
• 1 to 2 tiny reddish chile peppers, stemmed, seeded and chopped into julienne (for a hotter mixture, permission the seeds in)
• 1 cupful packed cilantro sprigs (not the stems)
• 1/4 cupful packed mint leaves
• 1/4 cupful unsalted cashews, toasted
• 1/3 cupful canned Asian fried shallots (see TIP), for garnish
• 4 tiny limes, chopped successful half, for garnish