Savoury Minced Pork with Lettuce Cups

Name: Savoury Minced Pork with Lettuce Cups
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 1½ tablespoons groundnut (peanut) oil; 3 tablespoons coarsely chopped garlic; large handful fresh basil leaves, shredded; Spicy Dipping Sauce (nam prikpla); 225 g (8 oz) iceberg lettuce; 1 tablespoon shrimp paste; 2 teaspoons sugar; 3 tablespoons finely sliced shallots; 2 small fresh red or green Thai chillies, seeded and finely chopped; 450 g (1 lb) lean minced pork; 2 tablespoons fish sauce; 3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh coriander

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ken Hom Cooks Thai

By Ken Hom

Published 2001

About

This delicious, easy-to-make dish is simply stir-fried with Thai flavours. It is also fun to eat – you just wrap a little of the meat in the lettuce leaves and eat the whole thing with your fingers!

Ingredients

Spicy Dipping Sauce (nam prikpla)
225 g (8 oz) iceberg lettuce
1½

Asia
Thailand
Dinner
South East Asia
Spicy

Method

In a small bowl, combine all the ingredients for the sauce. Set aside.

Separate and wash the lettuce leaves, spin the leaves dry in a salad spinner and set them aside in the refrigerator.

Heat a wok or large frying pan over high heat until it is hot. Add the oil, and when it is very hot and slightly smoking, add the garlic, shallots and chillies and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Then