Asian Grilled Beef Salad

Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/3 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 cup water
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 cloves garlic, finely minced or pressed
• 2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil (dark)
• 1 1/2 lbs boneless beef sirloin or 1 1/2 lbs flank steaks
• 9 cups salad greens
• snow peas, julienned (or sugar snap peas,halved)
• carrot, julienned
• cucumber, sliced
• tomato, diced (or use halved cherry tomatoes)
• baby corn, halved or quartered lengthwise,depending on size

Recipe

• 1 combine all marinade/dressing ingredients in a jar and shake well.
• 2 an hour before grilling, remove steak from the refrigerator, dry with paper towels, and bring to room temperature, uncovered.
• 3 if you are using flank steak, make diagonal cuts accross both sides of the meat to help tenderize it.
• 4 grill steak to desired doneness.
• 5 let rest 10 minutes.
• 6 slice the steak thinly across the grain of the meat.
• 7 put slices in a bowl and pour half of the dressing/marinade over them.
• 8 toss salad greens with a small amount of marinade/dressing, just enough to coat them.
• 9 put greens on a large platter or on 6 individual plates.
• 10 arrange vegetables in a decorative manner on greens.
• 11 place beef slices in the center of the salad.
• 12 to take this camping or on a picnic, bag all ingredients separately, and combine at the site.
• 13 it's best to put the steak slices in the marinade/dressing while they are still warm, but don't leave them in for more than 20 minutes.
• 14 pass extra marinade/dressing on the side.
• 15 cooking time includes time for meat to come to room temperature.