Thai Beef Salad with Spicy Peanut Dressing
The Frog Commissary Cookbook
Steven Poses, Anne Clark, and Becky Roller
Yield: 5 - 6 servings

Spicy Peanut Dressing
½ cup unseasoned rice wine vinegar
⅓ cup corn oil
1 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. sugar
¾ tsp. minced garlic
½ tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
1¼ tsp. soy sauce
1¼ tsp. sriraja (Thai hot sauce) or Tabasco
1¼ tsp. minced fresh ginger
2 Tbsp. lime juice
⅓ cup coarsely chopped salted roasted peanuts

Whisk together all the ingredients (except the peanuts). Refrigerate. Stir in the peanuts just before serving.

Salad
1½ lbs. cooked, rare roast sirloin or fillet of beef, cut into 1½"x ¼" strips (about 4 cups)
2 medium-large cucumbers, peeled, seeded, and sliced into ¼"-thick crescents (about 2½ cups)
¼ lb. snow peas, stemmed, blanched 20 seconds
½ lb. bean sprouts
1¾ cups julienned red peppers (about 2 medium)
2 cups finely sliced red cabbage
1 cup thinly sliced scallions
Romaine leaves
½ cup chopped salted roasted peanuts

Just before serving, combine the beef, cucumbers, snow peas, bean sprouts, peppers, cabbage, and scallions with the dressing. Serve on romaine or other greens and sprinkle with the peanuts.
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