How to make Crunchy and Chewy Dried Beef Papaya Salad
Dried Beef Papaya Salad with its crunchy texture and a blend of spicy, sour, salty and sweet flavors is a very popular snack. This salad becomes even more appealing when you add this ingredient.
Ingredients
- 70g dried beef
- 450g green papaya
- 150g carrot
- 1 chili pepper
- 150g pork skin
- 70g Vietnamese balm
- 5-6 garlic cloves
- 1-2 hot chili peppers
- 2 limes
- 100g roasted peanuts
- Spices: Fish sauce, sugar, vinegar, salt
Ingredient Notes
In this article, Cookbeo used pre-purchased dried beef.
When choosing dried beef, you should pay attention to the moisture of the beef slices. If it's too dry, it won't have the sweetness of the meat, and it won't be tasty. You can also buy whole dried beef or even make your own dried beef. When making the salad, slice it thin and small, just like when you eat dried beef salad in the old quarter like Cau Go salad, Ham Long salad... Besides dried beef, you can also add lettuce leaves or chicken liver, chicken breast, fermented pork roll which are also very appealing.
For herbs to make dried beef papaya salad, you can use mint, lemon balm, basil... but you definitely need Vietnamese balm. Vietnamese balm very well suits this salad.
Besides papaya, carrots you can make dried beef salad with green mango or kohlrabi dried beef which is also very delicious.