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Preparation
1 hour 10 minutes
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Cooking
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Refresh your family’s daily menu with the delicious and appealing sweet and sour beef skin salad that is rich in flavor yet incredibly simple. Join TasteVN into the kitchen to make this tasty salad to treat everyone this weekend!
Ingredients for Sweet and Sour Beef Skin Salad Serves 4 people
Beef skin 200 gr Grilled rice paper 1 piece Kach leaves 10 leaves Chili 2 fruits Garlic 5 cloves Lemon 1/2 fruit Common seasonings a little (salt/ sugar/ monosodium glutamate)
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose good beef skin, ensuring quality
- When buying beef skin, it is advisable to choose the skin from young cattle or calves. Young beef skin or calf skin is usually not too tough, so it will taste better when cooked.
- Pay attention to choosing pieces of skin that have high elasticity, avoid buying parts that are heavily scratched, and not too thick for processing.
What is “lá cách”? Where to buy “lá cách”?
- “Lá cách” is the leaf of the “cách” tree, also known as the “bọng cách” (vọng cách) tree, with green, thin leaves, varying shapes, and a fragrant smell.
- “Lá cách” is used as a medicinal ingredient or as fresh herbs and seasoning. The leaves are widely used in salad dishes and braised dishes or served with other dishes, which is also very delicious.
- “Lá cách” has a fragrant smell and a mild spicy taste; the older the leaves are, the darker the green color, the spicier and more pungent the flavor is.
- The “cách” tree grows wild in many highland and rural areas in Vietnam.
- Currently, you can find “lá cách” at markets, supermarkets, or buy online through e-commerce websites.
How to prepare Sweet and Sour Beef Skin Salad
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Prepare the ingredients
Beef skin should be cleaned of hair and washed thoroughly with water. Then put the beef skin into a pot and boil.
The leaves should be washed clean and cut into small strips. Peel the garlic. Remove the stems from the chili.
Cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice from one half.
Tip: To prevent the beef skin from being too tough after boiling, you should boil it over medium heat for about 1 hour, then take it out and place it in a bowl of ice water.
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Mixing beef skin
You put into a bowl or into a mortar 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate, 1 teaspoon of salt along with peeled chili and garlic, then pound them finely.
After boiling, you use a knife to cut the beef skin into thin strips, about 2 finger lengths long.
Next, add the cut beef skin, the finely pounded spice mixture, lime juice, and shredded herbs into a bowl and mix well.
Then, you crush the grilled rice paper and add it to the bowl to mix with the beef skin. Adjust the seasoning to taste and then serve on a plate.
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Final Product
The sweet and sour beef skin dish is now complete. The beef skin is soft, chewy, and rich, combined with crispy grilled rice paper, which will surely be an unusual dish for the weekend that the whole family will love.
Get into the kitchen and try it out right away!
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