Thai Beef Salad
Discover the flavours of Thailand with this Thai beef salad recipe. Classic balanced Thai flavours of sweet, sour, spice and salt, along with a delicious mix of textures.
We think you will love the flavours in this dish. Thai food is such a great cuisine to get confident cooking. And it's one of our personal favourites! Our Thai Chicken laksa is a popular dish or our lamb shank red Thai curry is not to be missed!
Ingredients
For the salad:
- Beef - we recommend either sirloin or fillet for this dish.
- Mung beans (bean sprouts) - these bring a great crunch to the dish.
- Vermicelli noodles - (or thin rice noodles) these noodles are readily available. They are quick to cook and delicious coated in this Thai sauce.
- Cucumber- The English or telegraph variety.
- Cherry tomatoes - depending on availability you could also use a standard tomato, cut into chunks.
- Red chilli
- Red onion
- Fresh coriander/ cilantro (leaves only) and mint - Save the stalks from the coriander for the dressing.
For the Thai salad dressing: garlic, red chilli, coriander stalks (cilantro), lemons, palm sugar and fish sauce. All these ingredients should be found in your nearest supermarket but if not head to your local Asian store.
Optional garnishes: for additional flavour and texture add a handful of chopped peanuts and a sprinkle of fried shallots.
How to make a Thai salad dressing?
This recipe uses a classic Nam Jim dressing, which also works well as a Thai dip so a great versatile recipe to learn.
The dressing is full of classic Thai ingredients. Simply pound these together using a pestle and mortar to build delicious flavour. But if you don't have a pestle and mortar, a mini chopper will work too.
The important thing to remember is taste, taste, taste. Creating delicious Thai food is about balancing the flavour. You need to create and build this from the start so taste and adjust as you go. Follow our full recipe below and we'll walk you through making this dressing.
We hope we have inspired you to give this delicious Thai salad a try. There are some great techniques and flavours you can apply to other dishes too. So if fresh, vibrant flavours are your thing this dish is for you. Enjoy!
Thai Beef Salad
Recipe details
- 2 people
- Prep time: 30 Minutes Cook time: 10 Minutes Total time: 40 min
Comments
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My husband is Thai and laughing at this recipe. You don’t use any type of noodles, bean sprouts and definitely not lemon juice in Thai beef salad.
Most Thai people use a specific fish sauce for this salad as well. This salad is served over steamed white rice.