Name: Thai Steak Salad with Rice Noodles
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 jalapeño chili pepper (or 2 serranos, finely chopped); 1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic; Kosher salt; 2 tablespoons fish sauce; 3 tablespoons honey; 1/3 cup fresh lime juice (from about 4 juicy limes); 2 tablespoons neutral vegetable oil; 1 pound skirt steak; 1 pound broccoli (cut into florets); 8 ounces pad thai rice noodles; 4 Persian cucumbers (sliced into thin circles); 3 green onions (white and light green parts thinly sliced); 2 cups baby salad greens; Fresh mint (basil and/or cilantro leaves, 1 cup total); 1/3 cup roasted unsalted peanuts (chopped)

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A quick, healthy steak salad recipe packed with spicy Southeast Asian flavors, fresh green herbs and broccoli.

An overhead image of a plate full of sliced steak, cucumbers, broccoli and rice noodles garnished with fresh mint leaves.

Are you looking for healthy recipes with beef?

I’ve got you covered with this delicious steak salad recipe, which is a balanced, vibrant meal on one plate.

Because I’m vegetable-forward cook and eater by nature, I tend to make produce the star of the show when I create recipes.

But every once in a while there’s nothing like a tasty steak salad recipe to satisfy all the cravings at once — fresh green vegetables, silky rice noodles and tender, juicy slivers of beef.

An overhead image of a plate full of sliced steak salad with cucumbers, broccoli and rice noodles garnished with fresh mint leaves.

This warm steak salad recipe is an absolute fave, and makes a perfectly balanced one-dish meal.

There’s super-tasty steak (I use skirt steak) broccoli and loads of fresh herbs and greens, all mixed with a zippy, honey-kissed chili-lime dressing.

Each bite delivers crisp crunch, savory juicy beef and a sour-sweet-salty kick.

I’m telling you, it’s hard not to devour it!

In terms of serving, the salad is super versatile.

You can serve the salad as a main-dish, either as a warm steak salad or at room temperature.

Sliced pieces of skirt steak on a cutting board with crushed peanuts and lime salad dressing in small bowls.

Once you slide this recipe into your weekly red meat rotation, you’ll find it a solution to more than one meal-time situations.

Serve this pretty salad as a casual dinner in the backyard, or as make-ahead meal that’s ready whenever you are.

The tossed salad can sit for an hour or two and will still taste great.

Is steak healthy?

Good quality beef steaks definitely fit into a healthy diet when eaten in moderation.

Red meat is an especially important source of fat, protein and minerals for those following a low-carb or ketogenic lifestyle.

Along with its high protein count, grass-fed beef has high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin b12 and vitamin E.

What are the best steaks for salad?

The best steak cuts for tasty steak salads are tender, juicy and cook quickly.

These steaks are perfect for making this salad

Top loin (aka New York, Strip, Delmonico, Sirloin Strip)
Top Blade (aka Flatiron)
Rib Eye (Bone-in or boneless)
Skirt (aka Fajita or Bavette)

I’ve recently become smitten with skirt steak, which is a cut from the beef plate (or rib cage).

For the money, skirt steak is the tastiest cut of beef you can buy.

It has a supremely beefy, savory taste that I can only describe as mouth-watering.

Cooking with grass-fed beef

I cook beef about once a week, sometimes more, depending on how hangry certain boys and girls are in my house.

Because it’s not something we eat every single day, I buy pastured or grass-fed beef that’s been raised and processed humanely.

Grass-fed meat is more expensive, but I figure the extra cost is offset by indulging less frequently and choosing the best quality food we can afford.

When served as a main dish, this salad is good to serve four or more people with one pound of beef.

That relatively small amount of meat goes a long way!

A healthy steak salad is a one-dish meal: Warm Thai Steak Salad with Rice Noodles and Broccoli

This salad has been on repeat ever since it called out to me from the cover of Bon Appetit.

It instantly reminded me of the Asian flavors of a Thai or Vietnamese-style rice noodle salad, which I could hands down eat every day, like my Fresh Summer Roll Noodle Bowl and Sweet and Spicy Banh Mi Bowl.

The love the abundance of herbs in the salad is hard not to love.

It’s a trio of fresh mint, basil and cilantro, along with the refreshing slices of cucumber and crunch of roasted peanuts.

This is a healthy, flavorful salad with mixture of vegetables, protein and simple bold seasonings that hit all the flavor notes.

I hope it makes you happy – let me know in the comments if you make it!