Thai minced chicken salad

Name: Thai minced chicken salad
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 400g (buy minced minced chicken or whizz chicken thigh fillets in a food processor); 100ml chicken stock; a thumb-sized piece root ginger grated; 2 cloves garlic finely chopped; 1 stalk lemongrass finely chopped; 2 red chilli finely chopped; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 3 tbsp lime juice; a small handful of each mint and coriander leaves; to serve Little Gem lettuce leaves and cucumber batons

Published: March 25, 2015 at 3:08 PM

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Serves 4

Easy

Total time: 20 mins

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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

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Ingredients

Nutrition

400g (buy minced minced chicken

or whizz chicken thigh fillets in a food processor)
100ml chicken stock
a thumb-sized piece root ginger

grated
2 cloves garlic

finely chopped
1 stalk lemongrass

finely chopped
2 red chilli

finely chopped
2 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp lime juice
a small handful of each mint and coriander leaves
to serve Little Gem lettuce leaves and cucumber batons

Nutrition: per serving

kcal128

low
fat3.1g

low
saturates1.1g
carbs1.9g
fibre0.2g
protein23.3g
salt1.83g

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.

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