Elephant Walks Loc Lac Cambodian Beef With Lime Dipping Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix beef with soy sauce, oyster sauce, tomato sauce sugar, fish sauce and ground black pepper and garlic. Marinate at least 20 minutes or up to one hour.
• Make dipping sauce, combine ingredients in a small bowl-set aside.
• Decorate two dinner plates with sliced tomatoes, cucumber and onion. Set aside.
• Place the lettuce leaves on a seperate platter.
• Heat oil in a wok over a high heat and stir-fry beef until cooked. Divide between the two dinner plates.
• See intro for how to eat.

Steps:

• Marinade:.
• Combine ingredients for marinade in a baking dish or shallow bowl.
• Marinate the beef and let sit for 15 minutes to 1 hour at room temperature, or overnight in the refrigerator.
• Meanwhile, make Lime Dipping Sauce:
• Stir sugar and salt into the lime juice until well dissolved. Add the rest of the
• ingredients and mix well. Set aside at room temperature until ready to serve.
• Saute:.
• Heat up a large saute pan or small wok until hot; very high heat is required so
• that the meat will cook quickly without bleeding out too much juice.
• Add soybean oil, sugar, garlic, and black peeper and stir to caramelize for 30 seconds, being careful not to burn the garlic and black pepper.
• Add marinated beef and stir very quickly over very high heat for 2 minutes. Add mushroom soy sauce and stir to cook
• for another 2 minutes or so. Cook the beef to desired doneness; it's best served
• medium-rare to medium.
• Garnish a large plate with the young lettuce leaves. Plate the loc lac beef in the middle. Sprinkle with scallion greens. Serve with jasmine rice and Lime Dipping
• Sauce on the side.

Steps:

• Put the beef in a medium bowl. Grind the ginger slices with a mortar and pestle, adding them a few at a time until you have extracted most of the juice, or use a mini-chop to make a wet paste. Squeeze the juice from the fibers (you should have 1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons) and stir it into the beef; discard the ginger solids. Let the beef marinate for at least 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make the paste: Blend all the ingredients in a blender until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Heat the oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the paste and cook, stirring occasionally, until the flavors are released, about 2 minutes. Stir in the beef, sugar, fish sauce, soy sauce, salt, pepper and broth. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer, partially covered, until the liquid is reduced by half, about 40 minutes.
• Add the coconut and tamarind juices and cook for another 20 minutes. If the sauce is too thin at this point, increase the heat and reduce further; the sauce should be fairly thick.
• Garnish with cilantro sprigs and serve with cucumber slices and rice.

Steps:

• Slice beef on diagonal into thin strips, 1/8- to 1/4-inch thick.
• Place lemongrass, lime zest, garlic, turmeric and galangal in food processor or blender and grind to paste. Stir in 3 tablespoons oil. Place 2 tablespoons of spice mixture in bowl large enough to marinate meat. Add oyster sauce, sugar and paprika. Mix and taste, correcting seasoning to your preference. Cut kiwi in half. Remove flesh from one half and mash to a paste. Stir into marinade. Add beef strips; stir. Cover and refrigerate 3 hours.
• Start coals and burn until coals begin to glow or turn gas grill to medium heat. Thread beef onto skewers. Grill until well browned, 5-6 minutes per side.
• Serves 4.

Steps:

• Put the garlic, chilies, lime juice, sugar and water into a blender and whiz until you get a nice paste. Add the fish sauce and stir. Beat in the ground peanuts.
• There are many variations to this sauce, and the beauty of making it yourself is that you can adjust the taste to your liking. Add more fish sauce if you want it to be saltier, or more water for the opposite effect. Add more sugar if you like it sweet and vary the amount of lime juice depending on how sour you want it .
• There are no hard and fast rules here. The important thing is that you enjoy the sauce. Just make sure the basic ingredients are included in the recipe.