Steak Bahn Mi

Serving Size: 6

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes (1 hour of marination)

Any Special Tools Needed?: nope. Just a trip to your local Asian market. I promise you won't be sorry.

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup fish sauce (don't let this scare you away from the recipe!!)
• 4 tablespoons of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of finely minced shallot
• 6 cloves of garlic minced
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground black pepper
• 2 lbs of beef sirloin tip sliced (before cooking) into 1/8" strips
• 6 6-8" baguettes sliced in half lengthwise
• Pickled carrots (in-pickled works too), julienned
• Daikon radish (looks like a gigantic white carrot), julienned
• 1 bunch of cilantro
• 2 Jalapeño sliced

Sriracha mayonnaise:

• 3 tablespoons of mayo
• 1 tablespoon of sriracha 

Steps:

• In a small bowl mix fish sauce, sugar, shallot, garlic and black pepper.
• Marinade steak in mixture from above. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour; up to 24.
• Grill steak over high heat until brown on both sides. Approx 2-3 minutes per side.
• Toast baguettes on grill, sliced side down

Assembly:

• Spread sriracha mayo
• Steak
• Carrots
• Daikon
• Jalapeño 
• Cilantro

Commentary from the Cook:

Make as spicy as you damn please.