Cambodian Salad From Elephant Walk Boston Recipes

ELEPHANT WALKS LOC LAC (CAMBODIAN BEEF WITH LIME DIPPING SAUCE)

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.

ELEPHANT WALK SWEET BEEF STEW (KHAR SAIKO KROEUNG)

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.