Photo: Cold Thai Beef Salad Recipe
I love making this salad the night after a big beef dinner. It's lighter and more refreshing than next-day beef sandwiches! The vegetables I've used vary every time, depending on what I have on-hand. Shrimp also works well, if you don't have beef.
Ingredients
Dressing:
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon crushed pepper, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame seeds
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Salad:
- 2 cups leftover beef (steak, brisket, etc.), thinly sliced
- 1 head iceberg lettuce, shredded
- 1/2 cup mung bean sprouts
- 1/2 cup shredded carrots
- 1/2 cup cilantro leaves, roughly chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, julienned
- 1/2 red or yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 3 tablespoons fresh mint leaves, chopped
- Sesame seeds, for garnish
Directions
To make the Dressing: Mix together all the ingredients and chill.
To make the Salad: Mix together all the ingredients (except the sesame seeds) in a large bowl. Just before serving, toss the dressing with the salad and top with the sesame seeds.
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By wrichters_12322434
Hudson, 89
on July 07, 2010
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I made this salad for some customers who came to my house for a meeting. I followed the recipe exactly, made the dressing a few days in advance and thankfully tasted the dressing earlier that morning as the extra days in the fridge allowed the red peppers to mingle and really spiced up the dressing to a level that made my eyes water. So I tossed it out and started over and used 1 tsp of red pepper instead of 1/2 TBSP. I also topped it with asian rice sticks (vermicelli which I quickly fried until they puffed up. Everyone loved it! Thanks for the recipe!
By gai111_10790355
on July 22, 2008
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I had all these ingredients on my shelf--- what an easy and wonderful thing to do with left over steak. My family loved it.
By nospamplease_85...
Pittstown, NJ
on January 16, 2008
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I used leftover braised short ribs; everyone, including my 3,6, & 7 year olds loved this! I did double the dressing, though--thought it was too "dry" without....
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