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Chicken Lettuce Cups
30 minutes
Easy
Serves: 4
Description
These chicken lettuce cups are hiding some sneaky veggies inside - and your partner won't even notice! This is a great option if you're wanting a light dinner, but don't want to feel like you're missing out. With this recipe, you can swap out the protein (chicken) to something that is more suitable for you. For example, beef, prawns, turkey mince, fish etc. If you're wanting to bulk it out, you can add cooked brown rice into the mixture.
Ingredients
1 brown onion, diced
1 long red chilli, sliced thinly and deseeded
1 zucchini, finely diced
5 button mushrooms, finely diced
500g chicken mince
150g string beans, tips and tails off and halved
Salt and pepper to taste
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tbsp oyster sauce3 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 lime, juiced
10 cos lettuce leafs, washed
1 tbsp. olive oil, for cooking
Japanese Mayonaise to serve
Cooking Directions
- On a non-stick pan, heat olive oil over medium to high heat.
- Add onion, garlic and chilli into the pan and stir for 2 minutes.
- Add mushrooms and zucchini and leave to cook for 5-7 minutes.
- Add chicken mince into the pan and begin to break up with small pieces using a wooden spoon. Season with salt and pepper. Cook for a further 5 minutes.
- Add beans to the pan and leave to cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Add oyster sauce, lime and soy sauce and stir to ensure the flavour is evenly spread.
- Spoon some mixture into the lettuce cup. If you would like, squeeze a small amount of kewpie for some extra flavour.
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