San Choy Bau
San Choy Bau is amazing for a number of reasons. It's pretty quick to make which is great on the occasions you're time poor. It's low-carb as uses lettuce leaves as a wrap for the meat mixture. And lastly because you can have a meal with added kick by including fresh chopped chilli without it impacting the kids.
Ingredients
- 500 g pork mince
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 medium zucchini, grated
- 200 g tinned water chestnuts, finely diced
- 1/2 - 3/4 cup hoi sin sauce
- 3 spring onions, finely sliced
- 1/2 cup crushed peanuts
- 2 rice noodle cakes
- 2 chillis, optional
- 2 baby cos lettuces
Instructions
- In a medium sized bowl, add the two rice noodle cakes and top it off with boiling water, ensuring the noodle cakes are fully covered. Leave for 3 minutes, drain and then finely chop the noodles up.
- Take each head of lettuce and cut off the base to separate the leaves into lettuce cups. Wash each cup and stack them on a plate ready to serve.
- In a large frying pan, add oil, garlic and pork mince. Pan fry until pork is cooked and the mince is broken up.
- Add the grated zucchini and fry for 3 minutes, stirring to ensure it all cooks through.
- Add the water chestnuts, rice noodles and hoisin sauce and mix together.
- When you're ready to serve, mix through the chopped peanuts and spring onions. Everybody at the table helps themselves to put together their own lettuce cups. Serve with extra finely sliced spring onion and the finely sliced chilli available.