Description
I ate lots of lok lak on a recent holiday to cambodia. It's similar to vietnamese shaking beef although the cambodians don't like to admit that. In cambodia it might come with chips (fries) and a fried egg or rice-i liked the rice option. You eat it by wrapping portions of the meat and salad ingredients in a lettuce leaf, then dipping that in the dipping sauce (the best part of it i reckon). Sometimes the meat is sliced, sometimes it's cubed-i prefer slices. Semi ripe tomatoes are preferred to ripe ones, but use what you have!
Ingredients
- Beef Steaks
- Light Soy Sauce
- Oyster Sauce
- Tomato Sauce
- Sugar
- Fresh Ground Black Pepper
- Fish Sauce
- Garlic Cloves
- Vegetable Oil
- Tomatoes
- Cucumber
- Red Onion
- Lettuce
- Lime
- Salt
- Water
Instructions
- 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