Lettuce leaves stuffed with Thai turkey
Preparation time:
30 minutes
Cook time:
20 minutes
Ingredients
Metric
Imperial
5 kg | 11 lb | Olymel chicken thighs, cut into strips |
4 | 4 | large onions, chopped |
6 | 6 | large carrots, julienned |
125 g | 4 oz | ginger, chopped finely |
20 | 20 | garlic cloves, chopped finely |
1.25 l | 5 cup | coconut milk |
500 ml | 2 cup | chicken bouillon |
600 ml | 1 1/4 cup | soy sauce |
350 g | 1 cup | honey |
125 ml | 1/2 cup | red curry paste |
45 ml | 3 tbsp | sambal oeleck |
6 | 6 | limes, juice and the peel |
100 | 100 | leaves (large) of romaine or Boston lettuce |
4 | 4 | red peppers, julienned |
- | - | Fresh cilantro, to taste |
- | - | Vegetable oil, for cooking |
- | - | Salt and pepper |
Preparation
- In a large rondeau, heat a drizzle of oil to medium-high heat, and cook ¼ of the chicken strips until they are slightly coloured. Add salt and pepper, remove and set to the side. Do the same with the rest of the strips.
- In the same rondeau, cook the onions until transparent.
- Add the carrots, the ginger and the garlic and continue cooking for 5 minutes.
- Pour in the coconut milk, the bouillon, the soy sauce, the honey, the curry paste and the sambal. Mix well.
- Put in the turkey strips back in, bring to a simmer, stirring regularly. Cook until the sauce starts to coat the back of the spoon.
- Add the lime juice and zest, stir thoroughly and remove from the heat.
- When you serve, put 2 lettuce leaves on a plate, and stuff with the seasoned turkey, and decorate with julienned pepper and cilantro leaves.