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Preparation
1 hour 30 minutes
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Cooking
25 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Crispy and delicious three-striped beef salad, unique with its appealing color and delicious flavor will surely captivate you. Let’s get cooking with Điện máy XANH to make this delicious salad with the recipe below!
Ingredients for Three-striped Beef Salad For 2 people
Beef 300 gr Three-striped crab 3 pieces Bitter banana 2 pieces Tomato 4 pieces Onion 2 bulbs Garlic 1 bulb Chili 6 pieces Tamarind 20 gr Vietnamese coriander 20 gr Roasted peanuts 30 gr Lime juice 3 tablespoons Cooking oil 2 tablespoons Fish sauce 3 tablespoons Common spices a little (salt/ MSG/ sugar)
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose fresh and delicious beef
- Preferably choose pieces of beef that are bright red with white streaks and bright yellow fat.
- Choose pieces that have tender, small fibers and do not look too fine. Pressing with your hand should feel good elasticity.
- If you observe the meat and see small, white nodules that easily detach, it may contain parasites, so do not buy it.
- Avoid buying meat that is pale green or dark red, with dark yellow fat, white spots on the meat, soft texture, or strange odor.
How to choose delicious, quality crab
- Delicious quality crab is one that is still holding eggs, with firm and large meat.
- If possible, you should buy female crabs because they have very delicious fatty roe. To identify, you should look at the underside of the crab; if the flap is large under the belly, then it is a female crab.
- If you can, try breaking the crab’s claw to see if the meat is full and fresh white. You should not buy crabs with discolored or hollow meat.
- You should look to buy crabs during the season, which is the rainy season (around the 8th to 10th lunar months), when the crabs will be fat and fresh.
How to choose delicious, unbruised tomatoes
- When buying tomatoes, you should choose those that are plump with bright red color, evenly colored and emit a gentle, characteristic aroma.
- Freshly picked tomatoes will have the stem firmly attached to the top of the fruit. Prioritize selecting medium-sized tomatoes, not too large or too small, because overly large tomatoes will have thick flesh, making them less tasty when cooked.
- Avoid choosing tomatoes that are bruised, ripening unevenly, have fallen stems, or have worm holes or wrinkled skin, and feel soft and mushy to the touch.
How to choose delicious green bananas
- To make the dish tasty, you should choose green, ripe bananas that are dark green, slender, and evenly curved, with shiny skin.
- You should buy green bananas with slightly yellow-spotted skin, as these are fresh bananas that have not been injected with chemicals.
- Avoid buying bananas that are too unripe or too ripe, and those that are too hard.
How to prepare Beef Salad with Dried Shrimp
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Preparation of Ingredients
Wash the beef and cut it into thin slices.
Wash the dried shrimp and chop them into small pieces.
Peel the garlic, wash it, then mince the garlic and chili.
Peel the onion, wash it, then shred it. To reduce the pungent smell of the onion, soak the shredded onion in ice water for 10 – 15 minutes, then drain it.
Peel the unripe banana, cut it into long thin slices. To prevent the banana from browning, soak it in water mixed with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice for about 10 – 15 minutes, then drain it.
Wash the tomatoes, remove the seeds, and cut them into thin slices.
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Marinate the crab
The crab should be cut into small pieces, then marinated with 2 tablespoons of minced garlic and chili, 3 teaspoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and mix well.
You should marinate the crab for 1 hour so that the crab absorbs the seasoning evenly.
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Sauté the beef
You put a pan on the stove and heat 2 tablespoons of cooking oil. When the oil is hot, add minced garlic and fry until fragrant, then add the beef and stir quickly over high heat.
Add to the beef 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder, 1 teaspoon of sugar and stir well for 5 – 7 minutes to brown the beef.
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Making tamarind sauce
Soak the tamarind in hot water and mash it to extract the tamarind juice.
Then, mix the tamarind juice with 3 tablespoons of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of minced garlic and chili, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, and stir well.
After that, you can adjust the tamarind sauce to suit your taste.
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Mixing the salad
Add sliced onion, bitter banana, tomato, marinated pork, and beef into a bowl and mix well.
Next, evenly drizzle the tamarind sauce over the salad and mix thoroughly from the bottom up so that all ingredients absorb the seasoning evenly.
Finally, serve the salad on a plate, adding Vietnamese coriander and roasted peanuts on top to complete.
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Final Product
Delicious Beef salad with a unique tangy and spicy flavor, combined with the crunchy texture of onions and the light bitterness of unripe bananas, all harmonized together. You can enjoy the pickled beef salad with hot rice and spicy fish sauce, and you will definitely be captivated by this dish!
It is really easy to successfully make the delicious and aromatic three-striped crab beef salad. This is a dish that changes your family’s menu so it does not get boring. Wishing you success in your cooking!
