Yam Nua (Spicy Beef Salad)
Ranking seventh in the top ten list of Thai food loved by foreigners, Yam Nua or spicy beef salad is a mouth-watering dish of the Thais as well.
Ingredients
• 450 grams of beef tenderloin
• 2 garlic cloves
• 6 fresh coriander leaves chopped
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 2 teaspoons of soya sauce
• 2 teaspoons of lemon juice
• salt (to taste)
• some ground black pepper
• 2 spring onions thinly sliced
• 6 red chillies thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
How to cook
1. Roast the beef until it is medium. Then slice it up.
2. Mix the garlic cloves, a half amount of chopped coriander, sugar, soya sauce, lime juice, salt and ground black pepper together and pound them into paste.
3. Warm the oil in a saucepan and stir-fry the paste for 3-4 minutes.
4. Add the beef, cook for a minute and remove it from heat.
5. Allow it to cool. When serving, garnish with the spring onions and remains of chopped coriander and the chillies.