Food 52

Little Gem Salad With Fish Sauce Vinaigrette & Fried Eggs

This Little Gem lettuce salad is sweet, bitter, salty, funky, crunchy, and vegetal all at once. It's the dish I make when my body is craving vegetables, or when I'm waiting for the stew to finish cooking, or when I wake up feeling terrible and need a base for a couple fried eggs. The spiky fish sauce vinaigrette flavors everything from the lettuce and radishes to the sunny-side up eggs, whose golden centers ooze into the vegetables, almost creating an emulsion. A side of crusty bread would be nice here, but more often than not I just eat this straight out of the mixing bowl sitting in front of the television. It's a great side salad, quick lunch, or light pre-dinner for when you have just five minutes to spare.