Name: Thai Beef Salad with a Chinese Twist
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 1
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons lime juice; 1 x 8 oz sirloin steak; 1 tablespoon shaosing rice wine or dry sherry; 1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder; 2 red chilies, seeded and chopped; 1 tablespoon peanut oil; handful of mint leaves, stripped from stems and roughly chopped; handful of cilantro; 1 red onion, finely sliced; 1 lemongrass stalk, finely sliced; 1 tablespoon fish sauce (nam pla); 1½ oz cucumber, sliced with a peeler into long strips; 1 spring onion, finely sliced; 5 oz watercress; pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 teaspoon brown sugar

Preparation info

Serves
1

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
20 min

Appears in

China Modern

By Ching-He Huang

Published 2006

About

This can be made in advance and doubles as an easy sophisticated appetizer or a meal for one! Just increase the amount of ingredients required in the recipe for more servings. The Chinese twist to this recipe is the five-spice powder, which gives added flavor and fragrance to the beef while the shaosing rice wine provides sweetness to the meat. This subtle yet noticeably tastier difference makes this a winner at my dinner parties.