Monday, 20 October 2008

Vietnamese grilled chicken in lettuce parcels

500g chicken mince
3 chopped green onions
3 chopped cloves of garlic
3 stalks of finely chopped lemon grass
1 1/2 tsp cornflour
a small bunch of chopped coriander
3 tb fish sauce
golden caster sugar
1/2 small diced cucumber
1 finely sliced red chilli
Gem lettuce
Sweet chilli sauce to serve

Mix the chicken, green onions, garlic, lemon grass, cornflour, coriander and fish sauce in a bowl with some black pepper.

heat the oven to 200. Shape the mixture into 4cm meatballs. roll each in the sugar and put on a foil-lined baking tray. Bake for 15 mins, shake to coat with the caramel.

To serve, put a meatball on a lettuce leaf and sprinkle with cucumber, coriander and chilli

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