Lettuce Wraps

Lettuce Wraps

These healthy and refreshing lettuce wraps are a great lunch/dinner option, loaded with Thai flavours. A recipe perfect for a beautiful summer day. 

Ingredients

1.       500 grams minced chicken

2.       2 iceberg lettuces

3.       1 cup yellow and red bell peppers(chopped)

4.       ½ cup spring onion (chopped)

5.       2 tablespoons garlic (finely chopped)

6.       ½ cup fresh basil

7.       ½ cup red chilli paste

8.       ½ cup ketchup

9.       2 teaspoons soy sauce

10.   2 tablespoons Jaggery (preferably organic for dark colour)

11.   ½ cup roasted peanuts (roughly chopped)

12.   Salt

13.   3 tablespoons oil

Cooking instructions

For the filling

In a non-stick pan, add 2 tablespoons of oil. Once the oil is hot add the chopped garlic and sauté for half minute. Then add the spring onions and bell peppers and cook for 2-3 minutes.

Add the minced chicken and cook till the mince is dry, this will take some time. So, have patience and keep stirring the mince.

Once the chicken mince is cooked add salt, soy sauce and basil.

Remove the mince in bowl and let it cool.

 For the Sauce

In a non-stick pan add 1 tablespoon of oil, then add the chopped garlic and red chilli paste. Cook till the oil starts separating from the red chilli paste (soak 10 Kashmiri red chillies in water for 1 hour, remove the chillies from the water. Use a mixer to make a fine paste.)

Then add the jaggery, ketchup, salt and cook till all the ingredients come together.

Let the sauce cool for an hour.

 Assembly

Carefully cut the core of the iceberg lettuce. Then run some ice-cold water through the iceberg lettuce. After that you will be able to separate the leaves and get perfect lettuce bowls.

Take a lettuce bowl, add a generous portion of chicken mince, then a spoon of the sauce and some peanuts. 

Fold the lettuce and enjoy your lettuce wraps.