Vietnamese Spicy Beef Salad (Easy)
This delicious Vietnamese Spicy Beef Salad Recipe is an easy-to-make steak salad packed with fresh vegetables and an addictive simple chilli lime dressing that you will immediately love! It's the best steak salad you've ever eaten!
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 lbs Rib eye, cut into 1-inch cubes or 2 inch strips
- 1 tbsp Baking Soda
- 2 tbsp Water
- 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil or Neutral Oil
- 1 tbsp Fish Sauce
- 1 tbsp Oyster Sauce
- 1 tbsp Light Soy Sauce or Low Sodium Soy Sauce
- 1 tbsp Dark Soy Sauce
- 1 tbsp Brown Sugar or Monk Fruit Sugar
- 5 cloves Minced Garlic Cloves (or teaspoon Garlic Powder)
- 1 Lime, freshly squeezed
- 1 Lime zest
- Black Pepper to taste
- 1 Freshly Squeezed Lime Juice
- 1 Lime Zest
- 1 tbsp Fish Sauce or Homemade Vegan Nước Chấm
- 1-2 Bird's Eye Chili or Red Chili Peppers, finely chopped and seeds removed
- 1 tsbp Monk Fruit Sugar or Palm Sugar
- 5 Clove Garlic
- 1 head Romaine Lettuce Leaves or Baby Gem Lettuce
- 1/2 Carrots, ribboned
- 1 Shallot, rough chop
- 1 Radish, sliced
- 12 Cherry Tomatoes, halved
- 1 Cucumber, thin slices
- 1 Red Peppers, julienne
- 1/2 Bunch Fresh Mint Leaves, rough chop
- 1/2 Bunch Fresh Cilantro, rough chop
- 2 Stalks Finely Chopped Green Onions
- 25g Crushed Toasted Peanuts (optional for garnish)
Instructions
- 1
First, wash the beef and pat dry with a kitchen paper towel.
- 2
In a large bowl, tenderize the meat with baking soda.
- 3
Then marinate, and air fry the Vietnamese Shaking Beef.
- 4
While the beef marries, prepare the salad ingredients and sweet and sour chilli lime dressing ingredients.
- 5
In a large bowl, add fresh lime juice, lime zest, fish sauce or homemade Vegan Nước Chấm, bird's eye chili, monk fruit sugar and minced garlic. Mix well until the sugar dissolves.
- 6
While the ribeye or flank steak is cooking in the air fryer, prepare the fresh vegetable salad.
- 7
Wash and pat dry veggies. I also highly recommend investing in a quality salad spinner. Drying your vegetables and fresh herbs thoroughly is essential after washing them. It helps prevent watered-down salad dressings, and the salad stays fresher and longer!
- 8
A fuss-free way to get perfectly thin ribbons of carrots is to use a vegetable peeler.
- 9
In a large mixing bowl, add chopped and sliced vegetables.
- 10
Lightly drizzle the Spicy Lime Salad Dressing onto the greens. Do not flood the salad with the dressing.
- 11
Give it a perfect mix, so the chilli, garlic and sugar wrap around each dietary fiber!
- 12
Divide salad on two plates and top with air-fried spicy beef strips and an extra spoonful of salad dressing.
- 13
Garnish with finely chopped spring onion, fragrant herbs and crushed toasted peanuts.
- 14
Serve and enjoy!