Vietnamese-style beef salad

• beef mince↗500g g
• red chillies↗2

  1 finely chopped, the other thinly sliced

• garlic cloves↗4

  crushed

• oyster sauce↗100ml ml
• limes↗3

  juice of 2, 1 cut into wedges

• bag cooked rice noodles↗300g g
• carrots↗3

  cut into thin julienne

• bag beansprouts300g g
• mint↗small bunch

  leaves picked

• unsalted peanuts↗50g g

  roughly chopped

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   Dry-fry the beef in a frying pan until nicely browned and starting to crisp, then pour off any fat. Add the chopped chilli and garlic, and fry for a few more mins. Add the oyster sauce and lime juice, and cook for another 5 mins until sticky.

2. 2

   To assemble the salad, divide the rice noodles between bowls, top with the beef, then place a handful of carrot, beansprouts and mint leaves around each bowl. Sprinkle with peanuts and the sliced chilli. Before eating, toss all the ingredients together.