Chicken San Choy Bow

I've been loving this dish recently! We have had it once a week this month and likely to continue given how quick it is, yummy and great for lunch the next day! I like serving it with baby cos and have made a few variations so you can add whatever you like or have in the fridge but the combo below is my favourite. A friend recently made this with cooked chicken she had in the fridge and said it was still tasty.

This recipe serves 4 adults comfortably and takes 30 minutes all up to make. The mixture keeps well for lunch the next day too.

Ingredients

500 g mince chicken

400 g mushrooms, chopped finely

1 large carrot, finely diced

2 garlic cloves, crushed

2 cm ginger, grated

4 spring onions, thinly sliced

1/4 tsp chilli flakes

4 Tbs oyster sauce

1 Tbs soy sauce

1 bunch of coriander, stalks thinly sliced and leaves picked to serve

1/2 lime, juiced

100 g toasted and salted peanuts or cashews, chopped

To serve;

Cos or iceberg lettuce

1 red or green chilli, thinly sliced

Extra coriander leaves

Rice noodles (deep fried in oil - if you can be bothered!)

Method

Cook chopped mushrooms in 2 Tbs oil, in a large pan on high heat until browned, remove from pan and set aside.

Cook chicken in the same pan for 5-10 minutes and break up into smaller pieces. when almost done, add the grated ginger and garlic and cook for further 2 minutes. Then return the mushrooms to the pan, along with the spring onions, carrot and half of the coriander stalks finely chopped. Heat through and then stir in the oyster and soy sauces and add the nuts. Squeeze lime juice over and give everything a good stir.

Have your lettuce, chilli, coriander leaves, extra nuts and rice noodles as toppings people can add as they like and serve!

Tips

Chop the mushrooms to similar size as carrots, but remember they will shrink when their liquid evaporates. (See my picture for reference)

To save time i have started buying chopped garlic and ginger in tubes in the fresh produce section. (I know this isn't ideal but i need to find time saving methods with a new baby!) I garlic clove =1 tsp and 1 cm grated ginger = 1 tsp

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