Add Zing to Your Midweek Dinner With Southeast Asian Flavors

Budget-friendly skirt steak and easy-to-find Asian staples come together in a flavor-bomb dish.
Add Zing to Your Midweek Dinner With Southeast Asian Flavors
Lemongrass and chile add some zing to this steak noodle dish. Lynda Balslev for Tastefood
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This Southeast Asian-inspired recipe is a simple meal that’s meant to be served family-style and promises to brighten up your weekly menu plan. The base of the dish is a tangle of ramen noodles, coated in a citrusy sesame-ginger sauce, which also serves as a dressing to drizzle over the dish. Seared skirt steak strips, quickly marinated in a sweet-and-sour sauce fragrant with lemongrass, infuses an extra wallop of flavor and spice that belies the ease of preparing this dish.

The key to this recipe is assembling the list of Asian ingredients for the marinade and dressing, many of which are common pantry staples or easily found in well-stocked supermarkets. The good news is that they have long shelf lives, so once you purchase them, you can easily prepare other Asian-inspired soups, curries, and stir-fries.

Lynda Balslev
Lynda Balslev
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Lynda Balslev is a cookbook author, food and travel writer, and recipe developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her Danish husband, two children, a cat, and a dog. Balslev studied cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris and worked as a personal chef, culinary instructor, and food writer in Switzerland and Denmark. Copyright 2025 Lynda Balslev. Distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication.
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