INGREDIENTS
Neau dad deaw (Thai beef jerky)
500 g rump steak or other lean cut of beef, cut into 3 mm slices
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 tbsp coriander seeds, lightly crushed
1 tsp ground white pepper
2 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp palm sugar
Sticky rice
300 g (1 ½ cups) glutinous rice, soaked for 2 hours
Nam jim jaew (chilli dipping sauce)
2 tbsp glutinous or jasmine rice
1 large dried red chilli
1 garlic clove
Large pinch salt flakes
4 coriander roots, cleaned
1 large shallot, roughly chopped
¼ cup roughly chopped coriander leaves and stems
1 tbsp palm sugar
60 ml (¼ cup) fish sauce
1 lime, juiced
To serve
1 cucumber, sliced
METHOD
Neau dad deaw (Thai beef jerky)
- Combine the beef, fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, coriander seeds and pepper in a bowl. Toss to combine and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Place a baking and roasting rack in warming drawer. Lay the beef strips across the rack and dry the jerky in the warming drawer on Food Setting 3 (approximately 75°C) for 4 hours, or until mostly dry. Alternatively use the oven Drying function at 75⁰C.
Sticky rice
- Place the rice into a perforated steam container.
- Place the container into the steam oven and Steam at 100⁰C for 40 minutes.
Nam jim jaew (chilli dipping sauce)
- Place the rice and chilli in a small frying pan. Toast on medium heat, induction setting 4, until the rice is nutty and the chilli is fragrant.
- Use a mortar and pestle or a food processor and grind the rice and chilli to a powder.
- Use a mortar and pestle to sham the garlic and salt, add the following ingredients in order, crushing them each separately before adding the next: coriander root, shallot, coriander leaves and stems, then palm sugar.
- Add the rice and chilli powder and then season to taste with lime juice and fish sauce.
To serve
- Serve the Thai beef jerky with the chilli dipping sauce, sticky rice and cucumber slices.
Alternative jerky flavours
Classic jerky
500 g rump steak or other lean cut of beef, cut into 3 mm slices
60 ml (¼ cup) Worcestershire sauce
1 garlic clove, crushed
½ tsp pepper
¼ tsp salt flakes
¼ tsp coriander seeds, lightly crushed
Prepare as per recipe above
Chilli and lime jerky
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sambal olek
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 lime, zested and juiced
Prepare as per recipe above
Smoky jerky
500 g flank steak (or eye or round or top round steak)
2 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp coarsely-ground black pepper
1 tsp liquid smoke
1 tsp onion powder
½ tsp garlic powder
Prepare as per recipe above