How to Cook Beef Tataki
Serves: 4-6
Preparation time: 30 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins
Ingredients needed to make Beef Tataki:
For the beef:
- 1 fl oz vegetable oil
- 1 lb beef fillet
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
For the marinade:
- 2 garlic cloves, sliced
- 1 banana shallot, finely sliced
- ¼’’ fresh ginger root, grated
- Zest of a lime
- 2 fl oz rice vinegar
- 2 ½ fl oz soy sauce
- 2 tbsp soft dark brown sugar
For the salad:
- Fistful of watercress
- Fistful of bean sprouts
- 2 tsp pickled ginger
- 1 shallot, sliced
- ½ cucumber, sliced
For the dressing:
- Juice and zest of a lemon
- 2 fl oz rice vinegar
- 2 fl oz soy sauce
- 1 tbsp soft dark brown sugar
- 1 chili, finely chopped
Cooking instructions for Beef Tataki:
- Drizzle oil over the beef fillets and rub the salt plus freshly ground black pepper all over them, on either side; set aside.
- Place a heavy bottomed frying pan over moderate flame to heat it and place the meat on it.
- Fry them for a minute before flipping them over to cook the other side for another minute; turn off the heat and transfer the beef fillets into a resealable plastic bag.
- To make the marinade, whisk the lime juice, soy sauce and rice vinegar together in a small bowl.
- Add the brown sugar and continue to stir until it dissolves.
- Add rest of the ingredients of the marinade into the above mixture and stir them all together until well combined.
- Drizzle this marinade blend over the beef, seal the bag and flip it several times to coat the meat well with the mixture; set aside in the refrigerator for at least a couple of hours to marinate and chill.
- Meanwhile, divide each element of the salad onto the serving plates, arranging them in a pleasant manner and set aside.
- Whisk the rice vinegar and soy sauce together in a separate small bowl and stir in the brown sugar until it dissolves.
- Add the lime zest as well as the chopped chili to the dressing and stir well to evenly distribute them throughout the mixture.
- Drizzle this dressing over the salad and set aside.
- Remove the chilled beef from the bag and carve out very thin slices.
- arrange the slices over the salad and serve cold.
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