Although cang cua vegetable is delicious and nutritious, people used to consider it as a weed and often discard it. This vegetable prefers to grow in damp places such as canals, walls…
Not everyone knows that cang cua vegetable has a high content of nutrients, so it can support the treatment of diabetes, rich in antioxidants, prevent cancer, improve cardiovascular health and effectively reduce inflammation…
Especially, cang cua vegetable is great for making salads such as chicken and cang cua vegetable salad, canned fish and cang cua vegetable salad, tofu and cang cua vegetable salad… Besides, you can also show off your cooking skills with this simple beef and cang cua vegetable dish.
1. Ingredients for beef and cang cua vegetable salad
– Cang cua vegetable: a bunch
– Japanese lettuce: a bunch
– Beef: 200 grams
– Fried shallots
– Garlic
– Seasonings: Fish sauce, hoisin sauce, seasoning powder, ground pepper, chili powder
2. Instructions to make beef and cang cua vegetable salad
Step 1: Prepare the ingredients
– After buying cang cua vegetable and Japanese lettuce, remove any wilted leaves, discolored leaves and rinse them several times with clean water. Then, soak these two types of vegetables in diluted saltwater.
– Wash the beef thoroughly and slice it into thin pieces.
– Peel and mince the garlic.
Step 2: Marinate the beef
– Take a bowl, add the thinly sliced beef and season it with hoisin sauce, ground pepper, fish sauce, seasoning powder and minced garlic.
– Mix all the ingredients well and marinate the beef for 30 minutes to 1 hour, so that it absorbs the flavors.
Step 3: Stir-fry the beef
– Heat a pan, add cooking oil and sauté the minced garlic until fragrant.
– Then, quickly stir-fry the marinated beef on high heat, so that it doesn’t become tough. When the beef is cooked, turn off the heat and transfer it to a plate.
Step 4: Prepare the dressing
– Prepare the dressing for the salad by mixing 2 tablespoons of distilled water, 1 tablespoon of lime juice, 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of sugar, chili powder and minced garlic.
– Stir well and adjust the taste to your liking.
Step 5: Mix the salad
– Put all the prepared ingredients in a large bowl, mix well and add the prepared dressing.
– Then, transfer the salad to a small plate, garnish it with fried shallots or garlic and enjoy.
After being cooked, the beef and cang cua vegetable salad becomes extremely delicious. When eating, you can not only taste the sweet and sour flavors, but also gain the health benefits. You can enjoy this salad as an appetizer and serve it with shrimp crackers.
3. Note when making beef and cang cua vegetable salad
– Choose fresh cang cua vegetable with light green leaves and without any damage. Select bunches of vegetable that have appropriate stems, as the ones with overly large stems and leaves may have been treated with growth enhancers.
– When mixing the salad, gently mix the ingredients so that the vegetables absorb the flavors without being crushed.
– Since the beef has been marinated with seasonings, when adding the dressing, gradually add it to avoid making the salad too salty.