Chinese Pork/Chicken Mince with Lettuce Wraps (0 syns)
This pork/chicken mince is full of oriental flavour. If you wrap it in a lettuce leaf and add a few drops of Sweet Chilli Sauce – you will be in heaven! Little Gem lettuce works really well with this, but iceberg lettuce does a good job too.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- 500 g lean/extra lean minced pork or minced chicken
- 2 tbsp lemon grass – finely chopped
- 5 cm piece ginger – finely chopped 2 large frozen cubes
- 6 garlic cloves finely chopped 2 large frozen cubes
- 2 red chillies – deseeded finely chopped
- 3 tbsp finely chopped chives dry or fresh
- 4 kaffir lime leaves
- 6 tbsp light soy sauce
- 6 spring onions – finely chopped
- 1 lime – the juice only
- 1 tsp sweet chilli sauce
- small handful of fresh coriander – chopped
- small handful of fresh mint – chopped
- salt and pepper
- 2 Gem Lettuces or Iceberg lettuce – leaves separated to serve
Method
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In a food processor, blend together lemon grass, ginger, garlic, red chillies, chives and kaffir lime leaves.
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Add to minced chicken or pork (PS you can mince chicken yourself in a food blender too – you dont have to buy it minced. Simply buy SKINLESS and BONELESS chicken thighs – and check them for bits of remnant bone. But DON’T over blend into a paste).
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On a HIGH heat, stir fry meat mixture for 5 mins (until browned).
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Turn down heat to medium. Add sweet chilli sauce and soy sauce. Stir fry for 5 mins more.
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Add spring onions. Stir fry one minute.
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Remove from heat. Add lime juice all over the pan.
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Add CHOPPED herbs (coriander and mint). Mix.
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Season to taste with salt and pepper. Again, mix well.
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Spoon meat mixture into lettuce leaves and serve with extra ‘drops’ of sweet chilli sauce on top. (Sweet Chilli Sauce is 1.5syns per tablespoon).
Recipe Notes
Please note: Frozen cubes of garlic or ginger can be found in international supermarkets and in some major English supermarket stores. One rectangular cube measures 3.5cm x 3.5cm x 1.5cm.