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Recipe - Thai chicken wraps

This recipe is perfect for summer, and the best bit is it is so easy, tasty and healthy that we guarantee you’ll love it as much as we do.


Ingredients

  • Iceberg lettuce (16 large leaves)

  • 2 cups of cooked basmati/jasmine rice

  • 400g lean chicken mince

  • 1 red or orange capsicum (chopped finely)

  • ½ Cup spring onion (chopped finely)

  • 1 Tbsp cooking oil

  • 1 Tbsp minced ginger

  • 1 Tbsp minced garlic      


For sauce:

  • 4 Tbsp chicken stock

  • 3 Tbsn black bean sauce

  • 1 Tbsn rice wine vinegar

  • 2 tspn soy sauce

  • 2 tspn cornflour

  • 1 tspn sugar


Method

  1. Cook rice according to packet directions.

  2. Heat oil in pan, and sauté ginger and garlic. Add mince and brown.

  3. Mix chicken stock, black bean sauce, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, cornflour and sugar.

  4. Add sauce to mince and stir until sauce thickens and coats the mince.

  5. Add capsicum and spring onions. Stir through and then remove from heat. The vegetables should still be crisp.

  6. Mix cooked rice and mince together and serve in a large dish.

  7. Serve rice and mince mixture with chilled lettuce leaves. Each person can then make their own lettuce wraps by spooning the mixture into a leaf and rolling up like a burrito.

Serves

4

Enjoy!