Dipping sauce: Combine fish sauce, lime juice, tamarind (if using), toasted rice powder, Thai pepper, coconut sugar, cilantro, green onion, and water. Mix well and taste for seasoning. Adjust to your liking by either adding water to dilute it, or more lime juice, sugar, or fish sauce. (The taste is personal preference).
Heat a grill or cast Iron skillet over the stove to hot. Pat steaks dry and place seasoned steaks on grill or skillet and cook for a couple minutes on each side until desired temperature is reached.
Allow steaks to rest 10 minutes before slicing and serving with dipping sauce.
Serve with Lettuce leaves, Cabbage leaves, Cucumber Slices, Thai Sticky Rice or regular rice.
Notes
The one ingredient that could be difficult to find is the toasted rice powder. Most Asian markets will have it. You can make your own by using glutinous rice (see post), or I've linked it on Amazon.This dish pairs well with Thai Sticky Rice and Papaya Salad.
Nutritional information is provided as an estimate only and depends on ingredients and amounts used. Thai Caliente makes no guarantees to the accuracy of this information.
Keyword Crying Tiger, Steak with Thai Dipping Sauce