Dried fillet steak with chilli sauce

Name: Dried fillet steak with chilli sauce
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 1 teaspoon white peppercorns; a pinch of salt; 2 tablespoons Demerara or palm sugar; 2 tablespoons Demerara or palm sugar; 2 tablespoons soy sauce; 350 g/12 oz fillet steak, cut into 1 cm/ ½ inch strips; vegetable oil, for deep-frying (optional); Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce, to serve; 2 teaspoons coriander seeds; 1 teaspoon cumin seeds; 1 bunch of fresh coriander roots, finely chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keith Floyd's Thai Food

By Keith Floyd

Published 2006

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Ingredients

350 g/12 oz fillet steak, cut into 1 cm/ ½ inch strips
vegetable oil, for deep-frying (optional)

Asia
Thailand
Main course

Method

To make the marinade, heat a wok or heavy-based frying pan and dry-roast the coriander and cumin seeds for 40–50 seconds until they release their fragrance. Using a spice grinder or pestle and mortar, grind together the coriander and cumin seeds, the coriander roots, garlic, peppercorns and salt. Turn this out into a bowl, add the sugar and soy sauce and mix to form a marin