You can’t go wrong with a nice salade composée.
I start with a bag of pre-mixed salad leaves from the supermarket. Then I add sliced tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, onion, radish etc. Plus a big spoon of flax seeds.
On top of that goes a piece of seared or raw salmon. (Or boiled/grilled/poached if you’re not a sushi fan like me.) Or rump steak cooked very rare.
I don’t like salad dressing but I always make a nice sauce to go with the protein. With the fish, I like a tangy Japanese-style sauce with chopped garlic, chopped ginger (both from a jar), rice vinegar, sesame oil and rice wine or ginger wine. With steak, I like a Thai-inspired sauce with fish sauce, lemon juice, garlic, ginger, chili and a little sweetener.
This was really good for lunches in summer!