Vietnamese
Vietnamese Shaking Beef
Vietnamese Shaking Beef is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.75 lb beef sirloin
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 red onion
- 4 cups watercress
- 1 lime
- 3 tbsp neutral oil
- 4 cups cooked jasmine rice
How to cook it
- Cut the beef into large cubes and marinate with the soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce, sugar, and garlic for 15 minutes.
- Heat the oil in a wok or cast-iron skillet until nearly smoking.
- Add the beef in a single layer and sear hard, shaking the pan to turn the cubes, until browned but still pink inside, about 4 minutes.
- Toss in the red onion wedges and stir-fry 1 minute more.
- Pile the beef over a bed of watercress so the greens wilt slightly, and squeeze lime over the top.
- Serve with the jasmine rice.
Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Vietnamese Shaking Beef, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Vietnamese Shaking Beef carries gluten, shellfish, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bun Cha |
| Shellfish | Yes | Bun Cha |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Bun Cha |
| Fish | Yes | Lemongrass Tofu Stir-Fry |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Vietnamese Shaking Beef takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on beef, onion, and watercress.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.