Larb Lettuce Cups are a Thai  style  ground chicken  appetizer with herbs, flavored with peanuts and the traditional  flavors of  hot,  sour, salty,  and sweet.

Larb Lettuce Cups

By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

Larb Lettuce Cups are my recipe of the day with the blogging group Improv Cooking Challenge. We get together once a  month to  create a recipe utilizing two very specific ingredients. This month the options were putting meat and nuts together into one recipe.

This recipe  has been in my files for a  little while, so I am  glad to be able  to share it  with you.

It is pretty much  low carb, as the traditional  recipe  uses  ground  rice in it as a thickener. I have opted  to  use peanut flour/meal in this one. It does double duty  to  thicken and  add the  nutty flavor you want without added starch.

Being  low carb,  I also utilized stevia, which is  one of my sugarless sweeteners  of  choice that I use. You can use brown sugar if it  doesn’t matter to you.

While this is listed as an appetizer  I would actually  eat this for  my dinner,  where it  serves two. I love having  light foods  like  this when  the  weather warms and I don’t want a heavy meal.

Check out what the other bloggers have made!

Improv Cooking Challenge: May 2020

Ingredients: Meat and Nuts

• • Baked Sajji Chicken by Sneha’s Recipe
  • Grilled Chicken Salad with Walnut Vinaigrette by A Day in the Life on the Farm
  • Larb Lettuce Cups by Palatable Pastime (You are Here!)
  • Chicken Pad Thai by Making Miracles
  • Ghanian Kyinkyinga Kebabs by Pandemonium Noshery
  • Thai Cashew Beef by Cookaholic Wife
  • Almond Chicken by Sid’s Sea Palm Cooking

Larb Lettuce Cups

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Larb Lettuce Cups

Larb Lettuce Cups

Sue Lau

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 15 mins

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Asian, Thai

Ingredients

  

Larb Chicken:

• 1 pound ground chicken
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 tablespoon lemongrass paste
• 1 cup chopped red onion
• 2 teaspoons ginger
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 3 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon dried red chili flakes
• 2 teaspoons garlic
• 1/4 cup peanut meal
• 1 tablespoon stevia granular or other sweetener to taste

Accompaniments:

• mint
• cilantro
• basil
• lime wedges
• lettuce leaves

Instructions

 

• Brown and crumble ground chicken in the oil with the lemongrass paste, red onion and ginger.
• Stir in the remaining larb ingredients and simmer a few minutes until mostly dry.
• Serve larb on lettuce leaves topped with herbs and a squeeze of lime.

Notes

From the kitchen of palatablepastime.com

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