Thai Grilled Beef Salad Nam Tok Nuea 🥩🌶️

Description

Nam Tok Nuea is a bold Thai grilled beef salad where juicy sliced steak is tossed with lime juice, fish sauce, toasted rice powder, herbs, and chili. The result is smoky, spicy, bright, and intensely aromatic with fresh herbs balancing the rich beef. 🌿
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Smoky grilled beef, lime, chili, and herbs create one of Thailand’s most vibrant meat salads with explosive flavor in every bite. 🥩

Ingredients

• Beef
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• 🥩 450 g flank steak or sirloin (16 oz)
• 🧂 3 g salt (½ tsp / 0.1 oz)
• ⚪ 1 g white pepper (¼ tsp / 0.04 oz)
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• Dressing
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• 🥣 30 ml fish sauce (2 tbsp / 1 fl oz)
• 🍋 30 ml lime juice (2 tbsp / 1 fl oz)
• 🍬 10 g palm sugar (2 tsp / 0.35 oz)
• 🌶️ 6 g Thai chili flakes (1 tsp / 0.2 oz)
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• Salad
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• 🧅 80 g shallots, thin sliced (⅔ cup / 2.8 oz)
• 🌿 15 g mint leaves (¼ cup / 0.5 oz)
• 🌿 10 g cilantro leaves (2 tbsp / 0.35 oz)
• 🌾 10 g toasted rice powder (1 tbsp / 0.35 oz)
• 🧅 40 g scallions, sliced (⅓ cup / 1.4 oz)

Preparation

1. 1️⃣ Season the beef
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3. Rub steak with salt and white pepper and let it rest 10 min before grilling. 🥩
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5. 2️⃣ Grill the steak
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7. Grill beef over high heat about 3–4 min per side until medium rare. 🔥
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9. 3️⃣ Rest the meat
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11. Let the steak rest 5 min so juices redistribute. 🛋
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13. 4️⃣ Slice the beef
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15. Slice steak thinly against the grain for tender pieces. 🔪
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17. 5️⃣ Make the dressing
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19. Mix fish sauce, lime juice, palm sugar, and chili flakes until sugar dissolves. 🥣
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21. 6️⃣ Combine the salad
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23. Add sliced beef, shallots, scallions, mint, and cilantro into a bowl. 🌿
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25. 7️⃣ Toss with dressing
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27. Pour dressing over the salad and gently toss everything together. 🍲
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29. 8️⃣ Finish with rice powder
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31. Sprinkle toasted rice powder over the salad just before serving. 🍽️

Total Time

🕒 Prep: 15 min
🔥 Cook/Bake: 8 min
🛋 Rest: 5 min
⏰ Total: 28 min

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