Asian Chicken Lettuce Cups.

This recipe is inspired by an amazing meal we had in New York at Ruby Foo's- an oriental restaurant just off Times Square. It's a very low fat dish and there's so many alternatives to try.

Serves 2-3
Ingredients

200g Minced Chicken
1 tsp Hot chilli powder
2 tsp Chinese 5 spice
2 tsp Sugar
2 tbsp Soy sauce
1 tsp Sunflower oil
1 Small white onion OR 3 Spring onions finely sliced
1 Iceberg lettuce OR 3-4 Little Gem lettuce
Sweet Chilli/Soy/Hoi Sin sauce as accompaniment 

1. Carefully pull apart the lettuce ensuring the leaves aren't shredded and they keep their shape in order to be filled with the mince.

2. Finely chop up the white onion/spring onion. If using a white onion cut into fine strips. Or chop spring onion very finely from the white to the green end. 

3. Heat up a large frying pan with 1 tsp sunflower oil then add the chicken mince when the oil is hot. Ensure all the mince is sealed and add the chilli powder, 5 spice and sugar. Stir fry the mixture until all the spices are mixed through. Add the soy sauce and ensure the mixture is cooked through and of a dry texture- just like beef tacos. 

To eat: take a lettuce leaf, add the mince, sauce and onion and enjoy! 

These Asian Chicken Lettuce Cups are family friendly and a really healthy alternative to fajitas. You add plain boiled rice to each cup, use beef mince and Mexican inspired spices and soured cream, pork mince with grated apple or add stir fried peppers.