Keto Yam Nua

Yam nua is perfect for beef lovers with a love for Thai food. In Thailand, it is a side dish rather than a salad, but most Westerners see this as a salad or starter. Anyway, it's very refreshing and hits you with the perfect balance of spicy, sour, salty, and savory.

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Thai spicy beef salad

Ingredients

Ingredients for the salad

  • 1 beef steak
  • a few leaves of lettuce
  • a few cherry tomatoes
  • 2 small cucumbers
  • 1 red onion
  • a bit of cilantro
  • a few mint leaves
  • 2 lemongrass sticks

This recipe doesn’t contain all the quantities as it is up to you how much you like to have.

Ingredients for the dressing

  • lime
  • fish sauce
  • Thai bird's eye chillies

This recipe doesn’t contain much guidance for quantity as it is up to you how spicy you want it to be.

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Appetizers
Salads & Soups
Side dishes

Ingredients

Ingredients for the salad

  • 1 beef steak
  • a few leaves of lettuce
  • a few cherry tomatoes
  • 2 small cucumbers
  • 1 red onion
  • a bit of cilantro
  • a few mint leaves
  • 2 lemongrass sticks

This recipe doesn’t contain all the quantities as it is up to you how much you like to have.

Ingredients for the dressing

  • lime
  • fish sauce
  • Thai bird's eye chillies

This recipe doesn’t contain much guidance for quantity as it is up to you how spicy you want it to be.

Preparation

  1. Grill the beef (don’t season it and don’t overcook it as lime cooks meat) and set it aside to cool).
  2. Wash all the vegetables and herbs.
  3. Slice the lettuce.
  4. Slice the cherry tomatoes in half.
  5. Cut the cucumbers in small pieces.
  6. Slice the red onion thinly.
  7. Chop the cilantro.
  8. Pick the mint leaves.
  9. Slice the lemongrass sticks very finely.
  10. In a small bowl combine equal parts of lime juice and fish sauce and add the chopped chillies.
  11. Slice the cooled grilled beef.

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl mix all the ingredients but the dressing and a few mint leaves.
  2. Add the dressing spoon by spoon and have a taste before adding another spoon.
  3. Add the remaining mint leaves before serving.

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