This one was lettuce, spring onion, fennel, tomatoes, chillis, grapes and importantly lots of Sweet Basil (Thai Basil as the supermarkets call it) and coriander.

I did it with beef but you could do it with chicken or fish or just on its own

Directions

Chop the salad vegetables into bite-sized chunks and arrange on a plate

Put a little oil, salt and pepper on a plate and make sure the steak is coated. Oil the steak not the pan

Cook the steak to your liking but rare is best for this

Mix a little dressing with vegetable oil and nuoc cham

Drizzle it over the salad

Place the rested meat on top

Serve with additional nuoc cham to spoon onto the meat

Ingredients

• A steak - any high quality
• Salt, pepper and oil to cover the steak
• Half a lettuce
• 6 spring onions
• half a fennel bulb finely sliced
• 6 baby tomatoes, halved
• a handful of grapes, halved
• Sweet Thai basil
• A small pack of fresh coriander, finely chopped