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Lemongrass chicken lettuce cups

Lemongrass chicken lettuce cups

We love piling this fragrant chicken into little gem leaves at the table, making up the ‘cups’ as you go and eating them by hand, but do plate them up and eat however you like.

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  • Serves4
  • CourseStarter
  • Prepare15 mins
  • Cook10 mins
  • Total time25 mins
  • Plusmarinating

Ingredients

  • 3 chicken breast fillets, cut into 2cm strips
  • 1 tbsp groundnut or sunflower oil
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 tsp light brown soft sugar
  • 2 red chillies, deseeded and roughly chopped
  • 2 tbsp groundnut or sunflower oil
  • 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
  • 1 tbsp sesame seeds
  • ¼ tsp salt

Marinade

  • 1 pack lemongrass (2 stalks), roughly chopped
  • 1 lime, juice
  • 2 clove/s garlic, roughly chopped
  • 1 ecahlion shallot, roughly chopped

To serve

  • 2 x 250g pouches sticky rice
  • 2 little gem lettuces
  • 4 salad onions, finely chopped
  • ½ x 25g pack coriander, leaves roughly chopped
  • 1 lime, quartered

Method

  1. Put all the ingredients for the marinade in the small bowl of a food processor. Whizz to form a rough paste, then transfer to a bowl. Add the strips of chicken, turn to coat, then cover and chill for 30 minutes (or overnight).

  2. Heat the oil in a large sauté pan set over a medium-high heat. Add the chicken (discard any remaining marinade) and cook for 8-10 minutes, stirring frequently, until cooked through, no pink meat remains and the juices run clear. Meanwhile, heat the rice. Pile the hot rice and chicken into lettuce leaves, top with the salad onions and coriander, then serve with the lime wedges.

And to drink...

Dry Le Arenarie Vermentino di Gallura, Italy has citrus and herbal flavours to balance these dishes.

Nutritional

Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe

Energy

2,026kJ/ 482kcals

Fat

18g

Saturated Fat

3.2g

Carbohydrates

51g

Sugars

3.5g

Fibre

3g

Protein

29g

Salt

2.4g

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