Korean-Style Beef Tartare

Name: Korean-Style Beef Tartare
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: ½ pear, cut into fine strips; 3 tablespoons light soy sauce; ½ teaspoon sesame oil; 1 garlic clove, crushed; ½ teaspoon roasted sesame seeds; 200 g beef sirloin, trimmed; 1 small cucumber, peeled and cut into julienne; 8 tablespoons fresh chicken stock; 2 tablespoons castor sugar; ½ teaspoon chopped roasted pine nuts; 1 egg yolk; ¼ cup shredded cabbage

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Asian

By Neil Perry

Published 2000

About

Light and refreshing, this rather addictive salad is one of my very favourite Korean dishes - it has inspired a number of dishes on the menu at rockpool. For a change, try adding barbecued octopus to the salad instead of the beef; but the best substitution of all is sashimi-grade tuna to make a Korean-style seafood tartare.

Ingredients

Dressing

3 tablespoons light soy sauce
½ teaspoon sesame oil
½

Asia
Korea
Fish course

Method

To make the dressing, mix the ingredients in a small pot, boil for 30 seconds, then cool.

Cut the beef into 3-mm slices and then into 5-mm lengths. Put the beef, cucumber, cabbage and pear into a bowl, pour over the dressing and toss gently.