Laab (Northern Thai Spicy Beef Salad)

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon bird chile minced
• 1 tablespoon pepper red crushed
• 0.3 cup cilantro leaves fresh coarsely chopped
• 6  garlic cloves minced
• 3 tablespoons green onions thinly sliced
• 3 tablespoons juice of lime fresh
• 1 tablespoon lime rind grated thinly sliced ( 8 leaves)
• 1 cup torn mint fresh
• 12  tender napa cabbage leaves or any sturdy lettuce leaves chinese ()
• 6 ounce pineapple juice canned
• 0.5 teaspoon sea salt 
• 1 teaspoon sea salt 
• 0.3 cup shallots minced
• 1.5 pounds rump steak boneless trimmed
• 2 tablespoons thai sticky rice long-grain uncooked
• 2 tablespoons thai fish sauce 
• 0.5 cup water 
• 1 teaspoon peppercorns white

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• broiler
• ziploc bags
• broiler pan

Directions

1. To prepare rice powder, combine water and rice in a bowl.
2. Let stand 1 hour.
3. Drain and rinse rice with cold water; pat dry. Cook rice in a small nonstick skillet over medium-high heat 7 minutes, stirring constantly until lightly browned. Cool completely.
4. Place rice in a spice or coffee grinder; process until rice resembles cornmeal. Set aside.
5. To prepare marinade, place peppercorns in pan over medium-high heat, and cook for 3 minutes, stirring constantly or until toasted.
6. Place peppercorns in spice or coffee grinder; process until ground.
7. Combine ground pepper, 1 teaspoon salt, garlic, pineapple juice, and the steak in a large zip-top plastic bag; seal and marinate in refrigerator 30 minutes.
8. Preheat broiler.
9. Remove steak from bag, reserving the marinade.
10. Place steak on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray. Broil 16 minutes or until desired degree of doneness, turning and basting with reserved marinade after 8 minutes.
11. Cut the steak diagonally across grain into thin slices.
12. Cut slices crosswise into thin slivers.
13. Combine steak and lime juice in a large bowl.
14. Add rice powder, mint, and next 8 ingredients (mint through 1/2 teaspoon salt), and toss well. Spoon 1/3 cup steak mixture into each cabbage leaf.