Thai Beef Waterfall Salad Recipe (Nam Tok Neua)
Nam Tok Neua originates from northeastern Thailand, a region bordering Laos, where namtok is also a popular dish. Despite the complex history between the two countries, they share many cultural similarities, including language and cuisine. Nam Tok Neua is a Thai dish made with meat and vegetables, served in a sauce made of fish sauce, palm sugar, spring onions, lime juice, parsley, and mint.
Ingredients
Meat & Marinade
- Rib Eye Steak – 20 oz.
- Tomato Sauce – 3 tbsp
- Oyster Sauce – 2 tbsp
- Seasoning Sauce – 2 tbsp
- Palm Sugar – 1 tbsp
- Cooking Oil – 2 tsp
- Pickled Garlic Water – 2 tbsp
Thai Beef Salad Dressing
- Stock – 12 tbsp
- Palm Sugar – 8 tsp
- Fish Sauce – 8 tsp
- Red Chili Flakes – 2 tsp
- Lime Juice – 8 tsp
- Roasted Rice – 4 tbsp
- Red Onion, sliced – 4 tbsp
- Parsley, chopped – 4 tbsp
- Spring Onion chopped including the green uppers. – 4 tbsp
Instructions
- Slice the beef into steaks about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick leaving the fat on. If there are any hardened sections of fat, then trim these off minimally.
- In a large bowl add the sugar together with the other marinade ingredients and mix them together with the beef steaks, gently squeeze them into the meat.
- Leave to marinate for an hour.
- After the beef has marinated, grill the meat or fry quickly in a skillet. They taste best rare or medium rare.
- Let the cooked beef steaks rest a few minutes.
- Cut the steaks into bite-sized slices.
- Chop up the red onion, parsley and spring onions and set aside
- Mix the other dressing ingredients together and divide into 4 portions. Each serving will get its own portion of dressing.
- Place one serving of the steak slices together with one portion of the dressing ingredients excluding the onion and herbs in a saucepan and heat, stirring to mix well.
- Then, add in the onion and herbs at the end and stir to coat thoroughly for a minute or two.
- Repeat with the other 3 servings. All the meat and dressing may be cooked together if you prefer.
- Serve warm.
Nutrition
Calories: 528kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 39gFat: 31gSaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 113mgSodium: 1635mgFiber: 2gSugar: 17g
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