Thai Spicy Beef Salad – Refreshing and Tasty

This easy-to-make Thai spicy beef salad makes a perfect summer appetizer.

The salad burst with freshness from the lime and mint. A wonderful blend of sweet, sour, salty and bitter flavours to appease your taste buds.  It goes well with Jasmine rice or Thai sticky rice.

Serves: 1

Recipe courtesy: Chef Rossukon Tagoporn, Four Seasons Resort, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Spicy Grilled Beef Salad

Ingredients

150 g beef sirloin, marinated and grilled
1 pc tomato, sliced
1/2 onion, sliced
1 cucumber, sliced
Lettuce
Mint leaf
Spring Onion
Red chilli flower

Spicy Sauce

1 coriander root, chopped
5 pcs pickled garlic or onion
2 pcs garlic
1/2 red chilli, sliced
5 pcs bird’s eye chilli
3 tbsp Thai fish sauce or light soy sauce
3 tbsp lime juice
1 tbsp palm sugar paste or white sugar

Garnish

Lettuce
Mint leaf
Spring Onion
Red chilli flower

Directions

1. Season the sirloin beef with salt and pepper.
2. Grill the steak until desired doneness. Let it rest for a few minutes and slice. Set a side.
3. Prepare the spicy sauce by blending all the ingredients in a mortar and pestle.
4. Place the tomato, white onion, and cucumber on a plate.
5. Then place the sliced beef on top and pour the spicy sauce over the beef.
6. Garnish with lettuce, mint leaf, spring onion and red chilli pepper.

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