Fragrant Chicken Laab Salad

15 Minutes

20 Minutes

Our Fragrant Chicken Laab Salad is a flavour packed minced meat salad with lime and chilli.

Ingredients

1T jasmine rice

1 garlic clove, minced

1 lemon-grass stalk, white only, finely chopped

1 green chilli, finely chopped

2T light-flavoured oil

500g chicken mince (pork can also be used)

3 spring onions, finely sliced

2t caster sugar

1.5T fish sauce

4T lime juice

1t dried chilli flakes

bunch coriander leaves picked

2 cos lettuces, broken into leaves / 1 small cabbage, cut into eighths

2 limes, cut into quarters

200g green beans, cut into 3cm lengths

1 bunch Vietnamese mint or regular mint, leaves picked

sticky rice or steamed jasmine rice

extra chilli flakes or crushed fresh chilli

Toast the rice in a small pan over a low to medium heat, stirring regularly, until the rice is lightly toasted. Pound with a pestle and mortar until it reaches a fine sand-like consistency. Set aside. Using the mortar and pestle, pound the garlic, lemongrass and green chilli into a paste.
Heat a large pan over a high heat, add the oil and, when hot, add the mince and spring onion and cook until the mince is browned. Remove from the heat, add the garlic-chilli paste, sugar, fish sauce, lime juice and chilli flakes and stir to combine.
To serve, top with the coriander leaves and ground rice and accompany with whichever of the optional ingredients you like – all are excellent!
Serves 4