Thai minced chicken salad
Serves 4
Easy
Total time:
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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- 400g (buy minced minced chickenor whizz chicken thigh fillets in a food processor)
- 100ml chicken stock
- a thumb-sized piece root gingergrated
- 2 cloves garlicfinely chopped
- 1 stalk lemongrassfinely chopped
- 2 red chillifinely 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
- kcal128low
- fat3.1glow
- 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.
