Thai salads are zingy, fresh and full of flavor. The key to a great Thai salad is a well-balanced dressing. The lemon juice, fish sauce, palm sugar and red chile combine to make a dressing that packs a punch. Be sure to taste the dressing as you make it to see if you’d like to add more of any particular element. (For example, some lemons are more sour than others, and some people prefer a sweeter sauce and can add more palm sugar.) Cooking the steaks sous vide adds an extra dimension to this classic Thai favorite. Because you’re going to be dressing the steaks in lemon juice, which will naturally ‘cook’ them with its acid once on the plate, you don’t really want to cook the steaks any more than rare.
Christina Wylie
Christina Wylie is an award-winning writer, author, editor, food stylist, recipe creator, entrepreneur and radio host whose work has been featured in The Times & The Sunday Times, Time Out (Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong and Dubai), Traveler’s Digest, Fah Thai Magazine, Broadsheet, Wining & Dining and many other internationally renowned publications. In 2013, after almost a decade of working as an international journalist, Christina founded the online lifestyle magazine The GAB Magazine, for which she now leads a team of 60 writers based all across Australia. She then founded Samui Life Magazine in 2016. After working as a recipe creator for Anova Culinary for over a year, she signed a cookbook contract with the American-based, international publishing company Quarto. Her cookbook, titled The Sous Vide Kitchen: Techniques, Ideas, and More Than 100 Recipes to Cook at Home, was published worldwide in 2017. She wrote, styled, and photographed everything that you see within that book. In 2017 she opened her first restaurant, Bootlegger, in Koh Samui, Thailand. She is currently in the initial stages of launching Bootlegger 2 in Phuket in 2018, and is looking to open Bootlegger 3 in Bangkok in 2019. She is currently working towards stepping into the world of food and travel presenting. As an entrepreneur herself, Christina co-founded the charity initiative Project Gen Z in 2015 to teach orphaned Cambodian children entrepreneurial skills. A British expat born and raised in Hong Kong, Christina has worked across the globe, and has lived in Thailand, London, Hong Kong, Australia and South Africa over the years.