A mouth-watering dish with juicy grilled steak, drizzled with Thai-style sweet & spicy
homemade sauce. Although we called it "Salad", It's an authentic dish that Laos / Issan people eat with sticky rice as the main course.
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We called it "น้ำตกเนื้อ" - Nam Tok Neua
"Neua" is beef
"Nam Tok" means waterfall, also describing the sound of grilling meat
"Nam Tok" is the cooking style of Laos / Issan people making the sauce.
Ingredients
The highlight of this recipe is the "Nam Tok" Sauce. It must consist of Fish Sauce (Salty & Umami), Sugar (Sweetness), Lime Juice (Sour) & Chili (Spicy). From my granny's recipe, we will add Tamarind Juice to enhance the flavour and make the different level of acidity.
- Beef Steak - Since I live in Scotland, the wagyu beef steak is not expensive but premium quality. You can use any steak that you could get from your country. I love rib-eye for the marbling of fat which melt in your mouth. You can also replace beef to pork / chicken / duck breast per your preference.
- Fish Sauce - You will find fish sauce is commonly use in an authentic Thai (or Issan) dish. Because the location, we are not close to the sea, the little anchovy is easily caught from the river, the hot weather are perfect for fermentation, so Fish Sauce is much easy to have in Middle or Northern Eastern Thailand. The fish sauce is not just giving the savoury flavour but also the Umami.
- Lime Juice - the small & round shape lime which are juicy and easily found in the UK supermarket. If not, you can also replaced by the Yellow Lemon or White Vinegar or Apple Vinegar.
- Chili - I am using the large red chili. You can also use the bird's eye for more hot and spicy
- Brown Sugar - any sugar (white sugar, cane sugar, palm sugar or coconut sugar)
- Tamarind Juice - We have our Tamarind tree growing at my mom's home village. You can also get it from local Indian or Asian store for a dried paste. Soaked it into hot water, then drain the pulp and get the juice.
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Instructions
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- Step 1: To marinate the steak with seasonings for 20mins.
- Step 2: Prepare the salad sauce
- Step 3: Grill in the airfryer at 200c for 5 mins
- Step 4: Mix with the sauce, then add the roasted ground rice and mix well
Yves Tips~
- Using an air-fryer to grill a steak to prevent hot smoke in the kitchen
- You can use a griddle pan / saucepan and cook on the stove instead
- To marinate the steak before cooking, will make it more juicy and tender
Substitutions
- Pork / Chicken fillet or Duck Breast - instead of beef steak if you are not a big fans of beef. Lamb Chop is also a good option.
- Vegetarian - the beef steak can be replaced with a plant-based burger or Tofu to make this vegetarian
Variations
- Spicy - add chili pepper flakes while cooking to imbue heat into the dish
- Kid friendly - omit the chili / chili pepper flakes by adding red pepper & chopped tomatoes
Kitchen Tools
- Mixing Bowl
- Knife & Chopping Board
- Airfryer (Griddle Pan)
Storage
Prefer to serve it once it is cooked. (Especially the steak is cooked at rare or medium rare)
Any leftover (no rare steak), can be stored in a container with lid and refrigerated for 1-2 days
Bonnie's flavour
I prefer to cook my steak rare to medium rare if I am having Wagyu or Rib-eye. For the other part of beef steak, I usually have it medium. But if you are cooking pork, please make sure it is well done. For the lamb chop & duck breast, medium rare would have a perfect result. This dish is full of flavour & umami. It bursts into my mouth with the juicy and the sauce. In Scotland, I love to serve with green salad or sometimes with poached potatoes. But when I go back to Thailand, I would definitely serve it with stick rice or a bowl of warm Jasmine rice.
FAQ
Yes, you can. Just pick the meat that you like. You can use pork loin steak, pork shoulder, duck breast or chicken fillet. Even lamb chop is a very good option.
That's roasted rice, then ground into powder form. It is a main ingredients for the Nam Tok Sauce or most of the Issan dishes. You can get it from local Asian Store or roast it with sticky rice at home. (Fry the dry stick rice on a hot plain saucepan, until the rice is brown but not burn, leave it cool before blend into powder)
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Thai Grilled Beef Salad 泰式燒牛肉沙律 (Nam Tok Neua น้ำตกเนื้อ)
Equipment
- 1 Airfryer or Griddle Pan
- 1 Knife
- 1 Chopping Board
- 2 Mixing Bowls
Ingredients
- 400 g Wagyu Beef 牛扒
To Marinate 醃料
- 2 tablespoon Oyster Sauce 蠔油
- 1 tablespoon Soy Sauce 豉油
- 2 teaspoon Caster Sugar 糖
- 2 teaspoon Black Pepper 胡椒
- 2 teaspoon Corn Starch 粟粉
- ½ no. Lime Juice 青檸汁 or Lemon Juice
- 1 tablespoon Vegetable Oil 菜油
Nam Tok Sauce 醬汁
- ½ no. Onion 洋蔥
- 2 sprigs fresh mint leaves 薄荷葉
- 2 sprigs parsley 芫茜葉
- 1-2 no. Lime Juice 青檸汁 or Lemon Juice
- 1 no. Red chili 紅辣椒
- 2 tablespoon Sugar 砂糖
- 2 tablespoon Soy Sauce 豉油
- 1 tablespoon Oyster Sauce 蠔油
- 1 tablespoon Fish Sauce 魚露
- 3 tablespoon Taramind Juice 羅望子汁 optional
- 1 tablespoon chili flake 辣椒粉
- 3 tablespoon roasted ground rice 炒米碎
Instructions
- To marinate the beef steak & sit for 20 mins
- Then put into an airfryer at 200c for 5 mins
- Finely chop the onion, mint & parsley
- slice the red chili
- Add sugar, soy sauce, fish sauce & oyster sauce to a large bowl
- Add the chopped ingredients & chili in, then the lemon juice
- Add chili flakes
- Slice the cooked steak into pieces
- Mix with the sauce, then add the roasted ground rice and mix well.
- Serve well with sticky rice
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Notes
Yves Tips~
- Using an airfryer to grill a steak to prevent hot smoke in the kitchen
- You can use a griddle pan / saucepan and cook on the stove instead
- To marinate the steak before cooking, will make it more juicy and tender
Substitutions
- Pork / Chicken fillet or Duck Breast - instead of beef steak if you are not a big fans of beef. Lamb Chop is also a good option.
- Vegetarian - the beef steak can be replaced with a plant-based burger or Tofu to make this vegetarian
Variations
- Spicy - add chili pepper flakes while cooking to imbue heat into the dish
- Kid friendly - omit the chili / chili pepper flakes by adding red pepper & chopped tomatoes
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