Thai beef salad, this Asian salad has sweetness, salt, and tart flavors all combined into one.

Grilled beef cut into thin slices and mixed in with chopped cucumbers, greens, onions, tomatoes, chilies, and a dressing that brings all of the ingredients together.

As the Asian beef salad can be served cold, you can pack it for picnics and barbecue parties as well.

The Thai beef salad can also be served as a low-carb or gluten-free meal.

What to serve with Thai beef salad

• Serve with your favorite fried rice.

• Top it over a flat-grilled roti or flatbread.

• Mix in a spicy stir-fried noodle to make a complete meal.

• This Asian beef salad can be served with a bowl of couscous or garlic bread.

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Tips to make Thai beef salad

Ingredients to make Thai beef salad.

• Types of beef cut to use for the salad
  • Sirloin, rump steak, flank are some good choices to use.
  • you can grill the meat to rare, medium rare or well done, this would be a personal preference.

• Cutting the grilled beef-
  • Use a sharp knife to cut the grilled meat against the grain and as thin as possible.

• substitute for fish sauce.
  • Fish sauce is quite pungent and if you don’t like the smell of it, use a light soy sauce as a substitute for fish sauce.

• Types of hot sauce
  • If you cannot find Sriracha sauce, then go for a hot chilli sauce available to you.

• Prepping the ingredients early
  • You can have all the main elements to the beef salad(dressing, mixed greens, chopped tomatoes, onions and cucumber)in separate containers and assemble it 15 minutes before serving time.

More recipes with beef

Beef teriyaki stir fry

Beef and green bean stir fry

Sri Lankan devilled beef

Beef fry

Storing- consume within 24 hours

Reheating- can be served as a cold salad, reheating is not necessary.

Freezing-avoid freezing

Avoid food waste by

• Only make as much as you need.
• Only use ingredients that will be consumed. eg: if no one likes celery leaves or coriander leaves substitute with some other greens that your family loves.

RECIPE DIFFICULTY-LITTLE CARE NEEDED

How to make Thai beef salad

Please make sure to read the recipe instructions carefully to avoid mistakes.

Ingredients

The ingredients mentioned below use standard measuring cups and spoons.

For the dressing

1 tablespoon of minced garlic(2 cloves of garlic)

2 bird’s eye chili (substitute with any type of red chilies available to you, reduce to 1 if you want a less spicy dressing)

1 tablespoon of fish sauce

3 tablespoons of lime juice

3 tablespoons of chili sauce(preferable sriracha, substitute with any available hot sauce to you)

1 tablespoon of sugar

For the salad

250g of good beef (sirloin, rump steak, flank steak)

1 tablespoon of oil

Salt to season

1 large tomato chopped

1 medium-sized onion sliced fine

1 medium-sized cucumber cut into thin slices

1 cup of shredded lettuce

1/2 a cup of chopped celery leaves(optional, use any greens you like)

1/4 cup of chopped coriander leaves

Method

How to make the dressing for Thai beef salad

Use a blender or mortar and pestle to make the dressing.

Add garlic(2 cloves), bird’s eye chilies (2, substitute with any type of red chilies available to you, reduce to 1 if you want a less spicy dressing).

Fish sauce(1 tbsp), lime juice(3 tbsp), chili sauce(3 tbsp, preferably sriracha, you can substitute with any hot sauce available to you), and salt to season.

Blitz until you have a sauce of well-blended ingredients. you can also use a mortar and pestle to do this.

Taste and make adjustments to suit you, this can be done by increasing lime, fish sauce, hot sauce, or sugar.

But make sure that all the flavors are well balanced.

How to cook the beef to make the Thai beef salad

Place the beef over a hard surface and pound it to break the muscle fibers.

Season the beef with salt and pepper and set aside.

Place a skillet or stovetop grill pan over medium heat and heat the pan for at least 60 seconds.

Drizzle or brush oil over the beef and then place it on the heated pan.

Cook until the beef reaches the doneness that you prefer, I like to cook the beef through and slightly charred on the surface. roughly about 3-5 minutes on each side.

Remove from skillet, transfer to a plate and let it rest for a few minutes.

How to make the salad for the Thai beef salad

Chop onions, cucumber, tomatoes and place in a bowl.

Shred a mix of mixed greens onto a platter. I’ve used lettuce and celery leaves.

Add the chopped cucumber, tomatoes, and onions as the second layer.

Slice the beef thin against the grain.

And add as the third layer on the platter.

Drizzle half of the dressing over the beef slices.

Add chopped cilantro(coriander leaves )and chopped peanuts(optional).

Pour in the rest of the dressing and toss well with the rest of the elements on the plate.

Let it rest for 5 minutes so the beef slices absorb the dressing and serve.

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