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Larb chicken in lettuce cups is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Larb chicken in lettuce cups is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Thai Lettuce Wraps is one of those meals that will make you forget you're eating healthy! A traditional Thai dish called Larb Gai, they're quick to make and full of fresh flavours from herbs and lime, plus a nice hit of chilli. Use chicken mince or pork mince, bundle it up in lettuce or serve it over rice!
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook larb chicken in lettuce cups using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Larb chicken in lettuce cups:
- Take 2 tsp toasted rice power
- Get 2-3 tsp chilli flakes
- Take 250 g minced chicken
- Take 2-3 tbsp fish sauce
- Take 2-3 shallots finely chopped
- Prepare 1 lime (juice about 3 tbsp)
- Get 4-5 baby tomato chopped finely
- Prepare Handful mint leaves
- Prepare Baby Gem lettuces, leaves separated
This is a fresh and tasty Thai-inspired meal. Some of the more popular dishes are Pad Thai (fried noodles), Tom Yum Goong (spicy shrimp soup), Tom Kha Gai (chicken coconut soup), Yam Nua (spicy beef salad), Thai Curries, and Larb Gai (thai chicken lettuce cups) or Larb Moo (minced pork lettuce cups). One of my all time favorite dishes is the Smoked Duck Larb at Soul Food Mahanakorn. I love your simple twist on chicken larb.
Instructions to make Larb chicken in lettuce cups:
- Chop tomato, shallots, cut lime to wedges size. Leave aside
- Mince the chicken breasts into tiny pieces.
- Pour ½ of water in the small saucepan, heat the water up on high heat.
- Adding the minced chicken, break up ant lumps and stir well. Then add chilli flakes and toasted rice powder. Stir-fry the chicken for 4 mins then Remove from the heat.
- Add shallots, lime juice and fish sauce, stirring, then add the chopped tomato
- Toss in the mint leaves. Serve with the lettuces and other salad veg and a lime wedge on the side.
- (You can buy this toasted rice powder (Khao Khua) from most Asian grocery shops. To make toasted rice powder, heat a wok or pan over high heat. Add raw rice (2-3 tsp) and cook, stirring often, until rice is toasted and dark brown, but not black, 3 to 5 minutes. To grind the rice into powder, you can either do it by hand using a mortar and pestle, or you can grind it in a food processor or blender. The toasted rice powder will give you the nuttiest favour.)
What a brilliant idea to serve it in lettuce cups - a perfect san choy bau version cooked without oil, even better and wholesome. Thai laarb meets Chinese lettuce cups in this easy, quick, and addictive mash-up detox dish. If you make extra of the chicken mixture, you can use it to make our chicken and cabbage dim sum recipe. Locally, larb is eaten by scooping up in a piece of lettuce leaf to eat or by taking a small spoonful along with a fingerful of sticky rice. But if you are hell bent on eating with a fork and spoon then go for it!
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