Vietnamese Style Beef Salad

Name: Vietnamese Style Beef Salad
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 12 Baby Plum Tomatoes, cut into thirds; 2 tbsp Sesame Seeds, toasted; 3 tbsp Oyster Sauce; 2 Limes, juice and wedges to serve; 440g Cooked Rice, or noodles; 0.5 Cucumber, diced or ribboned; 1 Carrots, cut into thin julienne or ribbons; 500g Beef Mince; 10g Mint Leaves, picked; 50g Unsalted Peanuts, roughly chopped; 1 tbsp Fish Sauce; 3 tbsp Soy Sauce; 2 Red Chillies, half finely chopped, half thinly sliced; 1 tbsp Ginger and Garlic Paste; 0.25 Red Onion, or spring onion, sliced; 1 tbsp Rice Wine Vinegar

Beef

Dairy Free

30m prep time

40m total time

Easy level

16 ingredients

Vietnamese Style Beef Salad recipe by Cherrypick

Lighten up beef mince in this Asian inspired noodle salad with crunchy carrot and crushed peanuts. This recipe is healthy, economical and can be dialled up in flavours and heat depending on who you are catering for. Also great with turkey, pork or tempeh.

Method

Based on 4 servings, adjust as needed.

Step 1

Dry-fry the beef in a frying pan until nicely browned and starting to crisp, then pour off any fat. Add the chopped chilli, garlic and ginger paste, and fry for a few more mins. Add the oyster sauce, fish sauce, soy sauce and half of the lime juice, and cook for another 5 mins until sticky.

Step 2

Dice the cucumbers and mix with the rice wine vinegar, salt and a pinch of sugar. Ribbon-cut the carrot or cut into julienne (thin matchsticks), and cut the tomatoes into thirds. Pick the mint leaves and slice the red onions. Heat the rice according to the packet instructions.

Step 3

To assemble the salad, divide heated rice between bowls, top with the fried beef, then place a handful of carrots, tomatoes, pickled cucumber, red onion and mint leaves around each bowl. Sprinkle with peanuts, sesame seeds and sliced chilli. Before eating, toss all the ingredients together and serve with wedges of lime.

Ingredients
Based on 4 servings

12 Baby Plum Tomatoes, cut into thirds 1 x Sainsbury's Baby Plum Tomatoes 325g
2 tbsp Sesame Seeds, toasted 1 x Sainsbury's Sesame Seeds 50g
3 tbsp Oyster Sauce 1 x Sainsbury's Oyster Sauce 150ml
2 Limes, juice and wedges to serve 2 x Sainsbury's Limes
440g Cooked Rice, or noodles 2 x Tilda Microwave Rice Classics Sticky 250g
0.5 Cucumber, diced or ribboned 1 x Sainsbury's Whole Cucumber
1 Carrots, cut into thin julienne or ribbons 1 x Sainsbury's Loose Carrots
500g Beef Mince 1 x Sainsbury's British or Irish 5% Fat Beef Mince 500g
10g Mint Leaves, picked 1 x Sainsbury's Fresh Packed Mint 30g
50g Unsalted Peanuts, roughly chopped 1 x Stamford Street Co. Salted Peanuts 200g
1 tbsp Fish Sauce 1 x Blue Dragon Fish Sauce 150ml
3 tbsp Soy Sauce 1 x Blue Dragon Light Soy Sauce 150ml
2 Red Chillies, half finely chopped, half thinly sliced 1 x Sainsbury's Bird Eye Chillies (Red or Green) 20g
1 tbsp Ginger and Garlic Paste 1 x KTC Minced Garlic & Ginger Paste 210g
0.25 Red Onion, or spring onion, sliced 1 x Sainsbury's Red Onions Loose
1 tbsp Rice Wine Vinegar 1 x Sainsbury's Rice Vinegar, Inspired to Cook 150ml