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Asian beef salad with rice noodles and nam pla dressing

Frank Bordoni from Great Food Bites
Fresh, light and spiked with chillies and fish sauce, Frank Bordoni's South East Asian salad is great for informal entertaining

Asian beef salad with rice noodles and nam pla dressing

Method

1. For the marinade, combine all the marinade ingredients in a bowl and pour over the beef. Leave on one side for about an hour.

2. Preheat a grill until very hot. Take the beef fillet out of the marinade and grill for 3-5 minutes, on both sides until medium rare.

3. For the salad, bring a large pan of water to the boil, drop in the rice noodles and cook for 2-3 minutes, until just cooked. Tip into a colander and leave on one side to cool.

4. Toss together the salad greens, onions, kaffir lime leaves, chilli, coriander, mint and basil.

5. For the dressing, combine the soy sauce, fish sauce, lime juice and palm sugar.

6. Slice the warm beef fillet into very thin slices and arrange on the salad. Pour the dressing over and serve straight away.

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Ingredients

For the marinade

200ml Soy sauce
2 Spring onions, chopped
2 tsp dried red chilli flakes
2-3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
3 cm root ginger, finely chopped
2 tsp clear honey
1 x 650g beef fillet steak

For the salad

150g fine rice noodles
150g Chinese greens, or other Asian greens
2 small red onions, finely sliced
10 kaffir lime leaves
3 large mild red chillies, seeds removed, shredded
100g coriander leaves
100g mint leaves
100g basil leaves