BBC Food - Recipes - Grilled beef bavette with smoky salad onions

Ingredients

• 100g/3½oz coarse sea salt
• 50g/1¾oz demerara (brown) sugar
• 1 tbsp honey
• 2 bay leaves
• 8 black peppercorns
• 4 cloves
• 4 x 100g/3½oz pieces of beef bavette, onglet or thinly sliced rump
• 1 litre/1¾ pint brine (see above)
• 100ml/3½fl oz extra virgin olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
• 1 small red chilli , seeds removed and finely chopped
• 1 lemon , finely grated zest only
• 1 tsp thyme leaves
• 8 large salad onions or large bulbous spring onions , halved lengthways keeping the stalks intact
• olive oil , for cooking
• sea salt
• black pepper
• 1 large banana shallot or 2 medium ones, finely chopped
• 1 red chilli , seeds removed and finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 2 tbsp finely chopped flatleaf parsley
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• ½ lemon , juice only