Nom Tok (Thai Beef Salad)
I love this salad unfortunatly most Thai restaurant fail at making it.
Ingredients
Meat and Marinade
- 1 lbs N.Y. Strip, Flank, Flap, tenderloin. (read above)
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp freshly ground Black Pepper
- 5 slices ginger (optional)
The Dressing
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 1 tsp sugar or more to taste
The Salad
- 5 small shallot thinly sliced (red onion in a pinch)
- 1 green onion sliced (ok if you omit)
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
- chopped mint to taste (1/4 cup)
- 1 tbsp Asian style dried chili flake (finer grind read above)
- 1 tbsp roasted rice powder (read above this is very important)
- 1/4 cup diced roma tomato (optional)
- 2 tbsp julienne ginger (optional and not traditional but great addition)
Instructions
- Marinade the meat for at least 1 hour or overnight.
- Grill meat to desired temperature
- Make rice powder (read above)
- mix dressing ingredients
- slice the meat 1/8 inch
- mix everything together, garnish and serve with rice.