Vietnamese grilled chicken in lettuce parcels

Vietnamese grilled chicken in lettuce parcels

These meatballs can be made the night before, making them a great prepare-ahead party nibble

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes about 30 meatballs

Preperation and cooking times

Cook time

Cook 30 mins

Ready in 30 mins

Method

  1. Mix the chicken, shallots, garlic, lemon grass, cornflour, coriander and fish sauce in a bowl with some black pepper.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
Try

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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  • 07 November 2007

    chillidog rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I made these with turkey mince and they were great!

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    L3E commented on this recipe

    I'm saving these babies to serve for my parents' wedding anniversary, along with several other finger food recipes on the site. I'm not patient enough to mince chicken, and chicken mince seems hard to obtain, but I've found that Halal butchers tend to do it.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes about 30 meatballs

Preperation and cooking times

Cook time

Cook 30 mins

Ready in 30 mins

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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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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