Nuoc Cham Marinated Skirt Steak | Quarantine Cooking Projects

Original Recipe:

coconutsandcaviar.com/recipes/nuoc-cham-marinated-skirt-steak

Feel free to make modifications to adjust the nuoc cham to your tastes. Once you have the sauce made to your liking, break out the grill and start prepping your veg!

nuoc cham marinated skirt steak

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 20 minutes

Total time: 30 minutes (plus marinating time)

Servings: 4 servings | About 1 pound

Ingredients:

1 pound skirt steak

6 limes, juiced

6 garlic cloves, grated

4 tablespoons fish sauce

6 tablespoons sugar

4 thai chili peppers, thinly sliced

Instruction:

Juice limes into a small bowl (add the zest if you are feeling fancy).

Grate garlic gloves into bowl with lime juice. Add fish sauce, sugar, and sliced chili peppers.

Whisk in bowl until surgar is dissolved, adjusting nuoc cham to taste as needed.Place skirt steak in a large Ziplock bag and cover with marinade. Put bag in refrigerator until ready to cook (anywhere from 2 - 24 hours).

Remove steak from marinade and place reserve marinade in a small sauce pan. Pat dry steak with paper towel. If using grill, preheat. If cooking indoors (grill pan or cast iron pan), add canola oil and heat over medium until shimmering.

Place skirt steak over grill grates/pan and cook until well charred, about 3 minutes.

Once steak has been charred, flip and continue to cook until internal temperature has reached: 125 for medium rare, 135 for medium.Let rest for 5 - 10 minutes. Slice and serve with pickles and everything fun.

While resting, heat saucepan over medium heat and reduce marinade until coats the back of a spoon, about half. Set aside and serve as dipping sauce.

Chef Notes:

Nước chấm is intended to be a uniquely personal sauce. While our proportions are done to our liking, feel free to adjust if you feel it needs more heat, spice, salt, or acid.

Cooking down the marinate adds to the complexity of the dipping sauce by changing the texture and flavor profile. With the flavor of the nước chấm imparted into the meat, it adds another variation on this flavor profile.

We like to serve this as the centerpiece for lettuce wraps or summer rolls because the brightness and crunch.

bon appetit