Spicy Beef Salad with soy and chilli pepper dressing

Name: Spicy Beef Salad with soy and chilli pepper dressing
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 30 g (1 oz) palm sugar; 1 tablespoon fish sauce; 2 tablespoons lime juice; 2 tablespoons light soy sauce; 2 garlic cloves; 2 small fresh red chilli peppers; 1 small red onion; 1 cup fresh mint leaves; 1 red capsicum (sweet pepper); 1½ tablespoons vegetable oil for cooking beef; 1 cup fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves; ⅔ cup (100 g/3½ oz) peanuts, roasted; 24 cherry tomatoes or 6 medium tomatoes; 1 kg (2 lb) beef fillet

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Taste of Australia

By Victoria Alexander and Genevieve Harris

Published 1995

About

At the restaurant we serve rare beef in this salad, but the beef can be cooked more if desired. The resting time allows the cooked beef to relax and ensures that it is tender. A vegetarian version can be made using deep-fried cubes of tofu.

Ingredients

Dressing

2 garlic cloves
2 small fresh red chilli peppers
2 tablespoons light soy sau

Method

TO MAKE DRESSING, peel the garlic. Mince (grind) together the garlic and the chilli peppers. Place in a bowl with the rest of the dressing ingredients. Mix together until the sugar has dissolved.

TO MAKE SALAD cut the beef into eight portions. Halve the cherry tomatoes or chop the tomatoes. Seed and slice the capsicum. Peel and slice the red onion. Place all the salad ingr