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Cambodian beef salad

The dressing for this Cambodian beef salad is a delicate balance of garlic, sugar, fish sauce and lemon juice. If you like heat, add some sliced chilli to the mix.

Cambodian beef salad

Credit: Lee Chan's World Food Tour

  • serves

    4

  • prep

    10 minutes

  • cook

    10 minutes

  • difficulty

    Easy

serves

4

people

preparation

10

minutes

cooking

10

minutes

difficulty

Easy

level

Ingredients

  • 1 tsp fish sauce
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • sugar, to taste
  • 3 slices garlic
  • 500 g beef fillet
  • cooking oil
  • ½ lettuce, shredded
  • ½ red capsicum, roughly chopped
  • ½ green capsicum, roughly chopped
  • 1 tomato, chopped
  • ½ red onion, finely sliced
  • 1 cucumber, sliced
  • 1 bunch basil

Instructions

  1. To prepare dressing, whisk fish sauce, lemon juice and sugar in a bowl until sugar dissolves. Stir in garlic.
  2. Rub beef with salt. Heat oil in a frying pan or wok over high heat. When the oil starts to smoke, reduce heat and place beef in hot oil. Cook for 3–4 minutes. Turn and cook for another 3-4 minutes. Drain excess oil and cut into 5 mm slices.
  3. In a salad bowl, toss beef, lettuce, capsicum, tomato, onion, cucumber and basil. Drizzle with dressing and serve.
 

This recipe is from on SBS Food (Channel 33). Stream episodes via .

Cook's Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.


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Published 25 March 2019 4:57pm
By Lee Chan's World Food Tour
Source: SBS



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