Today my mom went to work, so I wanted to make some nutritious and healthy food for her to gain back energy. I made 2 entrees and with steamed rice. This is a Vietnamese dish and in our Vietnamese family, we always eat with steamed rice. It is very simple, quick , yet healthy and light because 50% are veggies (*wink ). I hope you can give it a try...
Ingredients:
- 1/2 lb of beef
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 2 eggs
- 2 bundles of crunchy lettuce (or any green/purple lettuce)
- 2 cloves of garlic (minced well)
- 1 tsp of sugar
- 1 tsp of mushroom seasoning powder (optional)
- pinch of salt
- 1 and 1/2 of pepper
- 1 tablespoon of fish sauce
Step 1: slice the beef thinly. Follow the line of the meat, use a sharp knife and cut perpendicularly to that meat's line thinly and carefully. You don't want to cut the meat like how you cut steak ^^. Slowly slice it, and you will able to eat a tender meat that marinated well.
Step 2: Put the meat in a bowl, add fish sauce, salt, pepper, sugar, garlic, and mushroom powder in. Mix well and leave it to marinate for good 30 minutes.
Step 3: in a pot, fill of with water and drop two eggs in and cook. Don't boil the water first then add the egg later, it'll crack the egg. You want the temperature in the egg start to increase as the water boils. It took 15-18 minutes to cook the eggs and get a good yellow yolk inside without the dark surrounding on the yolk.
After that, drain the eggs and put in a bowl with cold water. Leave them a minute or two, then crack the shell and peel them. Use a clean knife and slice them into crescent shape
Step 4: Wash the tomatoes and slice them about half inch thick. Do the same thing with the lettuce, wash the leaves one by one, then cut them into 2 inches long.
Step 5: In a medium pan, drizzle some oil. Wait about 10 secs to get the pan hot, add in the marinated beef and cook it thoroughly. At this point, I didn't add any more seasoning, just cook the meat only, because there will be more flavor added in from the dressing. Turn of the heat so you don't overcook the beef.
* For dressing:
- 2 tablespoons of apple vinegar (if you really can't find it, just use normal vinegar. The reason why is because normal vinegar is too sour and too strong. Apple vinegar is also sour but on the sweet side from the apple).
- 1 cloves of garlic (minced well)
- 3-4 tsp of sugar
- lemon juice from tiny slice of lemon (don't use too much, we already have vinegar, we just want some aroma and tangy from the lemon)
- 1/2 red chili (chopped into small pieces)
- pinch of salt and pepper
- 1 tsp of olive oil
-> Mix all the ingredients well with a whisk or a spoon. Taste and seasoning more salt or sugar, according to your taste. (If you read my very first blog, you know I don't believe you should follow and season your food exactly like me. Everybody has different taste, and it's your dish after all once you make it ^^, so follow your powerful tasting buds and add in more sugar if you still see it's too sour, add more salt if you still see it's too bland) ^^
Step 6: In a big, and deep bowl (just get your biggest bowl out :D ), put your lettuce in first (I grabbed about 2 handful of lettuce into my bowl), just remember to leave some room for the other ingredients ^^ . After that, arrange tomato and egg slices around the bowl according to you. Place the meat on top.
* Pour dressing and meat only when you are going to eat right away, or else it'll wilt the lettuce and the flavor wont taste good any longer. Pour half of the dressing into the salad bowl, use two big spatula and mix all the goodies together to coat the dressing well. Add more dressing if you feel there is a need. ^^
Tere you have it : A healthy salad dish with tender beef, boiled eggs and tomatoes. Enjoy it with steamed rice. You will love it ^^
Hope you will like it. Good luck.
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