Shaking Beef Vietnamese Bo Luc Lac

Published Mar 29, 2020 Updated Aug 27, 2024

Vietnamese Shaking Beef Bo Luc Lac

What is shaking beef? Shaking beef recipe is one of my favorite Vietnamese recipes. It’s an easy beef recipe of tender and juicy beef cubes coated with shaking beef sauce. This dish is called Bo Luc Lac in Vietnamese language which literally means beef shake. Bo means beef or cow in Vietnamese language and “luc lac” means shaking and tossing the beef back and forth in a wok during the cooking process.

Ingredients For Bo Luc Lac

This is homemade, authentic and the best recipe, contributed by Ravenous Couple. The recipe calls for the following ingredients:

Beef sirloin. Garlic. Shaking beef sauce made of fish sauce, oyster sauce, sweet soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil. Dipping sauce made of lime juice, kosher salt and black pepper. Red onion, watercress and tomatoes as vegetable sides.

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How To Make Shaking Beef

To make this Vietnamese beef dish at home, first, you combine garlic, fish sauce, oyster sauce, sweet soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil together. Marinate the beef with the sauce. Next, heat a wok and sear and cook the beef until both sides turn brown. Shake and toss the wok while cooking the beef.

How To Serve Shaking Beef

There are many ways to serve this dish. Some restaurants serve it with sauteed onions, lettuce and rice (white or tomato rice). Other restaurants may present it like a steak salad served on a bed of watercress and tomatoes, topped with pickled onions. There is a dipping sauce and it can be a combination of lime juice, salt and ground black pepper or a soy- chili sauce. Regardless of how you serve bo luc lac, it’s an easy and delicious dish to make for dinner.

What To Serve With Shaking Beef

Serve this dish with steamed rice or noodles. For a healthy Vietnamese meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes. I hope you enjoy this post as much as I do. If you try my recipe, please leave a comment and consider giving it a 5-star rating. For more easy and delicious recipes, explore my Recipe Index, and stay updated by subscribing to my newsletter and following me on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram for new updates.