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Spicy Thai Beef Salad

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Quick Facts

Servings: 6

Sides & Desserts

  1. Asian Noodle and Seafood Soup
  2. Spicy Thai Noodles
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Wine Pairings

  1. Grenache
  2. Pinot Noir
A fiery salad that combines many wonderful Thai flavors in one crunchy dish.

Ingredients

  • Salad:680g flank steak
  • 3g salt
  • 2g freshly ground pepper
  • 340g red leaf lettuce, torn into pieces
  • 1 cucumber, peeled and sliced
  • 1 tomato, cut into pieces
  • 3 green onions, sliced diagonally
  • 10g fresh mint leaves, chopped optional
  • Dressing:80mL fresh lime juice
  • 9g fresh cilantro leaves, chopped
  • 20g brown sugar
  • 15mL soy sauce, low sodium
  • 15mL water
  • 15mL fish sauce, bottled
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 serrano pepper, or red Thai pepper, seeded and minced

Directions

  • Preheat grill or broiler.
  • Prepare dressing: Combine all dressing ingredients in a jar or bowl; mix well. Set aside.
  • Salt and pepper both sides of steak. Place steak on a grill rack or broiler pan coated with vegetable oil spray. Cook 6 minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness. Let stand 5 minutes. Cut steak diagonally across the grain into thin slices. Cut each slice into 2-inch pieces.
  • Prepare salad mixture (lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes green onion and mint leaves).
  • Combine salad mixture, steak and dressing in a large bowl, tossing to coat.

Note: Look for fish sauce in the Asian section of the supermarket.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 256
  Calories from Fat 115 (45%)
(19%)Total Fat 12g
(26%)Saturated Fat 5g
Poly-Unsaturated Fat 1g
Mono-Unsaturated Fat 5g
(20%)Cholesterol 59mg
(24%)Sodium 581mg
(21%)Potassium 750mg
Total Carbohydrate 12g
(9%)Dietary Fibre 2g
Sugars 6g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(49%)Protein 24g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Nutrition facts are calculated by a food expert using nutritional values provided by the USDA for common products used as recipe ingredients. Actual nutritional values may differ depending on the amounts or products used and can be affected by cooking methods.

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