Dad's minute steak with golden onions

• red wine↗ 5 tbsp
• soy sauce↗ 2 tbsp
• Dijon mustard↗ 1 tbsp
• light muscovado sugar↗ 1 tsp
• minute or sandwich steak450g 450 g

  cut into strips

• olive oil↗ 1 tbsp
• large onion↗1

  thinly sliced

• thick slices of bread4

  (choose Dad’s favourite, either white or brown)

• garlic butter50g 50 g
• watercress↗

  to serve

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   Mix the wine, soy sauce, mustard and sugar in a big bowl. Toss in the steak strips, season well with pepper and leave to sit and soak while you get everything else ready.

2. 2

   Pour the oil into a large frying pan and heat it up over a medium heat for a minute or so. Tip in the onion slices, turn the heat up to very high and cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring often to get the onions really golden brown. Take the onions out and keep them warm.

3. 3

   Lift the steak strips out of the marinade with a slotted spoon and stir fry them in the onion pan over a very high heat for 30 seconds (do it in two batches if it’s easier). Pour in the marinade from the bowl and boil for a few seconds until it sticks to the meat but is still juicy. Season with salt and pepper and keep warm.

4. 4

   Toast the bread and then spread with the garlic butter and cut each slice in half. Overlap two pieces of toast on each plate, top with a spoonful of onions, then the steak and more onions. Put a little pile of watercress on each plate and serve straightaway.