Cambodian Hot And Sour Beef Salad

Total Time: 16 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 6 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1 -2 cup lettuce leaf (enough leaves to cover a serving dish)
• 225 g tender steak
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 2 tablespoons lime juice (the juice of about 1 lime)
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 shallots or 2 spring onions, finely sliced
• 1 -2 red chile, deseeded and finely chopped, depending on how large they are and how hot you want this (or green)
• 1/4-1/3 cup mint (handful of mint)

Recipe

• 1 preheat a griddle, or you can use a grill.
• 2 cover a serving dish with lettuce leaves and set aside.
• 3 griddle or grill the steak; it should be rare, really, but obviously cook it as you prefer. when it's done, remove to a board on which to carve it and pour any juices in the grill pan into a bowl.
• 4 cut the steak into very thin slices across and put it and any more of the juices that run out into the bowl as well.
• 5 in another bowl, mix the fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, chopped chilli and sliced shallot, stirring well.
• 6 then mix the contents of the two bowls together, adding the mint leaves and quickly turn out on the lettuce and serve while still warm.