Nice And Spicy Thai Minced Chicken Salad (Larb Gai)
This recipe for Thai Chicken Lettuce Cups is fresh, vibrant, and bursting with flavors. Succulent minced chicken is cooked with fragrant herbs and vegetables, then loaded into crisp iceberg lettuce cups for a delightful balance of textures. The combination of fish sauce, lime juice, and aromatics creates a zesty, umami-filled filling that is perfect for a light and satisfying meal. Give these lettuce cups a try for a taste of Thailand in the comfort of your own home.
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 2 large, boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- flaked sea saltblack pepper
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 lime
- 1 tsp caster, granulated or soft light brown sugar
- 3 spring onions
- ¼ cucumber
- 1-2 red chillies
- 1cm/½in piece fresh root ginger
- ½ bunch coriander
- ½ bunch mint
- 1 handful salted (but not dry roasted) peanuts
- 12 largish crisp iceberg lettuce
Instructions
- Drizzle the oil into a large frying pan over a high heat. Add the minced chicken with salt and pepper and cook for 4-5 minutes, stirring regularly and breaking it up as you do so, until it turns from pink to white. Cut a piece open to check it is cooked and then tip the chicken into a colander set over a bowl. Leave to cool for five minutes (so it doesnât cause the herbs to wilt) while also allowing any excess liquid to drain off, if necessary.
- Pour the fish sauce and lime juice into a large bowl and stir in the sugar until dissolved. Add the spring onions, cucumber, red chilli, ginger, coriander, all but a small handful of the mint leaves and the peanuts and stir together well. Tip the chicken in and toss it through. Taste it and check to see if it needs a little bit more of anything to get it just to your liking.
- Arrange three lettuce leaves on each of four serving plates and place a couple of spoonfuls of the mixture into each one. Scatter the remaining mint leaves over to garnish and serve. The best way to eat these is to simply just pick a cup up with your hands and bite in.
Cook Time
30M
Prep Time
PT30M
Yield
Serves 4
Nutrition
- Calories: 237kcal
- Carbohydrate Content: 3g
- Fat Content: 11g
- Fiber Content: 2g
- Protein Content: 31g
- Saturated Fat Content: 2g
- Sugar Content: 3g
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