Vietnamese grilled chicken in lettuce parcels
These meatballs can be made the night before, making them a great prepare-ahead party nibble
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Difficulty and servings
Makes about 30 meatballs
Preperation and cooking times
Cook 30 mins
Ready in 30 mins
- Mix the chicken, shallots, garlic, lemon grass, cornflour, coriander and fish sauce in a bowl with some black pepper.
- Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. With lightly oiled hands, shape the mixture into 4cm meatballs. Roll each meatball in sugar and put on a baking tray lined with foil. Bake for 15 minutes, shaking the pan a couple of times to evenly coat with the sugary caramel.
- To serve, put a meatball on a lettuce leaf and sprinkle with cucumber, coriander and chilli. Serve with a bowl of sweet chilli dipping sauce.
Lemon grass
Use the bottom 1/3 of the lemon grass. Smash with the side of a knife then peel off outer layers and chop what's left.
Get Ahead
The meatballs can be made the night before then rolled in sugar and cooked before serving.
Per serving
34 kcalories, protein 3.8g, carbohydrate 3.8g, fat 0.5 g, saturated fat 0.2g, fibre 0.1g, salt 0.33 g
Recipe from olive magazine, December 2006.
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Ingredients
- 500g skinless chicken thighs fillets, pulsed to mince in a food processor or use chicken mince
- 3 shallots , finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves , finely chopped
- 3 stalks lemon grass , finely chopped
- 1½ tsp cornflour
- a small bunch of coriander , finely chopped
- 3 tbsp fish sauce
- golden caster sugar
- half a small cucumber , diced
- Little Gem lettuce leaves, to serve
- sweet chilli sauce , to serve
- 1 red chilli , finely sliced
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Difficulty and servings
Makes about 30 meatballs
Preperation and cooking times
Cook 30 mins
Ready in 30 minsIngredients
- 500g skinless chicken thighs fillets, pulsed to mince in a food processor or use chicken mince
- 3 shallots , finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves , finely chopped
- 3 stalks lemon grass , finely chopped
- 1½ tsp cornflour
- a small bunch of coriander , finely chopped
- 3 tbsp fish sauce
- golden caster sugar
- half a small cucumber , diced
- Little Gem lettuce leaves, to serve
- sweet chilli sauce , to serve
- 1 red chilli , finely sliced
Per serving
34 kcalories, protein 3.8g, carbohydrate 3.8g, fat 0.5 g, saturated fat 0.2g, fibre 0.1g, salt 0.33 g
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