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Thai minced chicken salad

Name: Thai minced chicken salad
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: minced chicken 400g (buy minced, or whizz chicken thigh fillets in a food processor); chicken stock 100ml; root ginger a thumb-sized piece, grated; garlic 2 cloves, finely chopped; lemongrass 1 stalk, finely chopped; red chilli 2, finely chopped; fish sauce 2 tbsp; lime juice 3 tbsp; mint and coriander leaves a small handful of each; Little Gem lettuce leaves and cucumber batons to serve

20 minutes
serves 4
Easy

Thai chicken salad is a vibrant, zingy dish that uses fresh herbs, fish sauce and lime juice as a dressing to make a lunch or light supper that is full of flavour, but low in calories. Nowadays you can get most of the Thai ingredients in this recipe at any good supermarket

Published: March 25, 2015 at 3:08 pm

Ingredients

minced chicken 400g (buy minced, or whizz chicken thigh fillets in a food processor)
chicken stock 100ml
root ginger a thumb-sized piece, grated
garlic 2 cloves, finely chopped
lemongrass 1 stalk, finely chopped
red chilli 2, finely chopped
fish sauce 2 tbsp
lime juice 3 tbsp
mint and coriander leaves a small handful of each
Little Gem lettuce leaves and cucumber batons to serve

Method

Step 1

Cook the chicken in the stock in a frying pan until it turns white and the stock evaporates. Add the ginger, garlic, lemongrass and chilli and keep cooking for another 3 minutes.
Step 2

Take off the heat and stir in the fish sauce and lime juice. Stir in the herbs and serve with lettuce leaves and cucumber batons.