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- From: R.C. Miller <miller@triton.unm.edu>
- Subject: Thai beef salad
- Message-ID: <9401120316.AA09224@triton.unm.edu>
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 20:16:54 -0700 (MST)
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- This was taken from "The Original Thai Cookbook" by Jennifer Brennen,
- Pedigree Books, NYC, 1981.
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- Thai Beef Salad (Yam Neua)
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- Salad:
- 6 lettuce leaves (Bibb, Boston, leaf, etc.)
- 8 mint leaves, torn
- 8 coriander leaves
- 1 stalk lemon grass, minced (only the tender bottom 2/3)
- 1/2 pound lean beef (tenderloin), barbeques or roasted rare,
- sliced into thin strips 2" long x 1/2" wide.
- 1 red onion, finely sliced into rings
- 6 citrus leaves, torn
- Dressing:
- 5 cloves garlic
- 5 green Serrano chilles, seeded
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce (Nam Pla)
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
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- Garnish:
- 2 tablespoons dried onion flakes, fried*
- 1 teaspoon dried red chilli flakes, crushed
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- Arrange lettuce to cover a platter. Sprinkle with mint and coriander.
- Top this with the lemon grass. Evenly lay the cooked beef pieces on.
- Cover with onion slices and citrus leaves. Pound the garlic and chiles
- together with a mortar and pestle. Add the fish sauce, lime juice, sugar
- and stir in the mortar until evenly mixed. Pour this dressing over the
- beef. Sprinkle with the onion and chili garnish. Refrigerate and serve.
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- * Fried onion flakes:
- Take commercial dried onion flakes. Heat a little oil in a pan and pour
- in the flakes. Shake the pan well as they start to brown. Remove them
- quickly. This stores well in an airtight jar without refrigeration. She
- recommends removing the dried onions from the heat before they have
- reached the desired degree of coloring- they continue to brown in residual
- heat after removal from the range. She says this works well for garlic too.
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