Ingredients

Serves 4

Quail Lettuce Delight Wrap
4  iceberg lettuce leaves, chiffonade
1 lup cheong sausage, diced
4 spring onions, sliced into rounds
2 shallots, diced
4 shitake mushrooms, diced
6 water chestnuts, diced
10 sprigs coriander, picked and washed
 

200g quail meat, minced
15g corn flour
50ml water
Pinch of sea salt
1 organic egg


Dressing - mix together:
100ml light soy sauce
40ml Shao sing cooking wine
25ml oyster sauce
5ml sesame oil

 


Toasted Steak Sandwich
200g Hopkins River Sirloin
20ml fish sauce
8 slices good quality bread

Salad
2 ox heart tomatoes, sliced
½ bunch watercress or watercress shoots
2 kaffir lime leaves, chiffonade
½ cup mint leaves
1 red eschalot, peeled and finely sliced
Cobram estate premiere olive oil

Nahm Jim dressing
2 cloves garlic
5 coriander roots
3 birds eye chillies (seeded)
2 red banana chillies (seeded)
150ml lime juice
Caster sugar and fish sauce to taste

Method

Quail Lettuce Delight Wrap
In a bowl, mix water, corn flour, salt and egg together then add quail mince and mix well. In a hot wok fry quail mixture until caramelized and fluffy. Add vegetables and continue cooking until onions are cooked through and aromatic. Remove from heat and season with dressing and coriander leaves. Divide evenly onto wraps and roll up, serve immediately.

 


Toasted Hopkins River Steak Sandwich, Watercress, Mint and Nahm Jim.
In a mortar and pestle, pound garlic, coriander roots and chillies until smooth.
Add lime juice and mix well.
Add sugar and mix well until dissolved (the sugar is to cut the sharpness of the chillies).
Finally add fish sauce to taste. It should taste hot, sweet, sour and salty.

Heat the grill on a high heat. Wash sirloin through fish sauce and cook to medium rare, let it rest.
Toast bread until golden, butter one side of each slice.
Construct sandwich by layering tomato, watercress, shallot and mint, place finely sliced beef atop. Drizzle nahm jim dressing over sandwich. Place other slice of bread atop. Cut into halves.

Place on a serving plate with remaining nahm jim on the side.