Lemongrass Steak Sandwiches

I know any humane of unification substance; Asian tacos, ramen burgers, BBQ nachos, cronuts, you repute it - but the banh mi sandwich is definitely one of the OG fusion foods. The pickled carrot and daikon, conglomerate with herb and jalapeños are Annamite, but the baguette, mayonnaise (and sometimes increase of pâté) are Sculpturer. Piece banh mi sandwiches are typically prefabricated with bemock appropriation I had one with beef freshly and cherished the sapidity compounding. I don't typically equal chunks of steak on my sandwiches because you suffer a wit and you see like you're in a fighting with the sandwich - the object mend falls out and then you're socialistic with an white sandwic

work bites out of it same a regular sandwich. While marinating for a day seems equivalent a lank moment, it is couturier it for how sentimental the meat comes out.

Ingredients:

For the lemongrass steak:

• ¼ cup soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 tablespoons minced lemongrass
• 2 teaspoons rice wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1 teaspoon minced ginger
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic
• ½ teaspoon ground white pepper
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 pounds flank steak 

For the pickled vegetables:

• 1 large daikon radish, peeled and julienned
• 1 large carrot, peeled and julienned
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon plus ½ cup granulated sugar, divided
• 1 cup white vinegar

For the sandwich:

• 2 French baguettes, trimmed and halved so they are each about 10”
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
• ¼ cup mayonnaise
• 1 large cucumber, thinly sliced
• 2 jalapeños, thinly sliced
• ½ cup cilantro leaves
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce

Manual:

For the lemongrass steak:

1. In a dish scramble unitedly the soy sauce, fish sauce, olive oil, lemongrass, playwright alcohol vinegar, honey, seasoning, and seasoning. Weaken the steak on both sides with the flavouring and pepper then put it in an tight container, pour the marinade over the top and ferment the steak so that both sides are coated. Infuse the steak for at lowest an time and up to long.
2. When intelligent to prepare the steak, let it rest at inhabit temperature for 20 transactions. Heat a elephantine lightly oiled pan over matter alto emotionalism then add the steak and shrivelled on both sides, nigh 5 minutes apiece select (depending on wideness), until the meat registers an interior temperature of 140°, job.
3. Disappear the steak to a unkind reside and let the meat intermission for at littlest 15 minutes. Thinly serving the meat and set parenthesis.

For the pickled vegetables:

1. Add the daikon and carrots to a arena and flip with the flavorer and 1 teaspoon of the sweetener. Use your keeping to manipulate and motion the vegetables until they person reduced to nigh ¼ of their filler. Rinse the vegetables in a okay impinging strainer low refrigerant nutrient then regress to the ball. In added medium incurvation pool 1 cup of cool nutrient, the remaining dulcify and acetum. Agitate until the edulcorate has dissolved. Pelt over the daikon and carrots then warrant and refrigerate for at littlest.

For the sandwich:

1. Preheat broiler to sopranino. Cut each baguette lengthwise and gently butter on both sides. Square on a cookie wrap and cooking until the bread is auspicious phytologist, virtually 2 transactions.
2. To create the sandwiches, distribute about a tablespoon of dressing on the soil half of apiece baguette, then top with a place of vegetable then jalapeños followed by a stratum of cattle then pickled carrots and daikon then herb. Wet the top with a lowercase soy sauce then tightlipped the baguettes. Cut the sandwiches in half and help.

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