Spicy grilled steak or beef salad.
March 9, 2011 by explorethaifood
Num tok
Num Tok is a northeastern Thailand food. It means waterfall. The name came from the juice of meat when it grills it drips onto charcoal hence like a waterfall.
Actually Spicy grilled steak or beef salad when we translate in Thai can mean two different dishes. One in Thai is called yum-nuea which is grilled beef spicy salad with Thai eggplant and use fresh chili(I’ll tell you the recipe later), but the one I talking about Num Tok has one special ingredient that makes the dish different. It is a rice powder. The rice powder is very easy to make, just toast the rice and pound it to make it fine like powder. I use the mortar for this. If you don’t have one use a Ziplog bag and pound it until it is fine or use a blender for coffee that works also.
Toasted rice
Pounding rice powderrice powder
Also, we use dried red chili to season it. So be careful when you order it in a Thai restaurant and make sure you know which one you order (best way ask server).
Ingredients
1 pound top sirloin.
1-3 tsp. Dried ground Thai Chili (If you don’t like, because it’s too hot use chili flack)
2-3 shallots or ½ red onion, slice very thin
5 tbsp. fresh squeezed Lime juice
5 tbsp. fish sauce
3 tbsp. rice powder
½ cup mint leave
¼ cup thin slice green onion
2-4 Roman leave for garnish
Cooking Instructions
- Grill or broil the steak until medium-rare (about 5 minute per side). Slice thin, into pieces approx. 2 inches across and 1/8 inch thick.
- Mix chili, fish sauce, lime juice, roasted rice in a medium bowl. Add the sliced meat and toss with the shallots, mints and green onion until it is mixed well
- Make a bed of the lettuce on a serving plate. Place the salad on top.
- Server with Carrot stick, cucumber for garnish (and cool down the heat during eating it !!! )
Num tok
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