This popular Thai beef salad is not just an appetizer but also a delicious dish as part of any meal. Using fairly common ingredients, this Thai recipe is quick and easy with little clean up. Grill good quality beef, thinly slice, toss with our Thai-style dressing and serve with fresh vegetables on a hot summer day for a light lunch.

For this amazingly simple but balanced, warm and spicy asian-inspired salad with beef, there are some things we need to get right from the very beginning. First off, get a good piece of meat, preferably with a nice fat content, or, like in this case, get your hands on an awesome beef tenderloin, also called filet mignon. Tenderloin has the particularity of always staying nice, juicy and full of flavor, unless you kill it three times -please don’t do that to a nice piece of meat.