Vietnamese Shaking Beef (Bo Luc Lac) dipped in a lime-salt-pepper sauce. Vietnamese Shaking Beef is seared cubed steak sauteed with garlic, onion, butter, and a soy marinade. The beef goes onto a bed of lettuce, watercress, tomato and/or cucumbers, and served with an optional lime-salt-and-pepper dipping sauce.
Bò Lúc Lắc is a famous Vietnamese beef stir fry. In the Vietnamese language, bo means beef, and Lúc Lắc means shaken. Shaking beef gets its name from the shaking and stirring technique used during cooking. This special technique helps develop evenly browning on all sides of the meat while keeping it juicy on the inside.
Also known as “shaking beef”, Bo Luc Lac is a Vietnamese steak salad served over a fresh bed of greens and tomatoes. Pickled onions rest on top of the steak and a lime dipping sauce is served on the side.
To make the rice, all you need to do is mix cooked rice with sauteed garlic, tomato paste, and some fish sauce. This homemade shaking beef recipe is full of tender bites of beef, vegetables, and tomato rice that will make you want to eat more. Combine all the ingredients and beef except for the cornstarch in a bowl and marinate for at least 1 hour.