Vietnamese-style beef salad

Ingredients

• 500g beef mince
• 2 red chillies, 1 finely chopped, the other thinly sliced
• 4 garlic cloves, crushed
• 100ml oyster sauce
• 3 limes
  
  , juice of 2, 1 cut into wedges
• 300g bag cooked rice noodles
• 3 carrots
  
  , cut into thin julienne
• 300g bag beansprouts
• small bunch mint
  
  , leaves picked
• 50g unsalted peanuts, roughly chopped

  Method

  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. 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.
  3. Source: bbcgoodfood.com