Bangkok Noodle Lettuce Cups
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Total: 40 mins
A Thai street food-inspired treat, made with a colourful, flavour-packed jumble of sweet chilli noodles, strips of organic quick-fried veg and toasted peanuts, piled into crisp lettuce leaf cups for easy summer eating.
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636 kcal
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Ingredients you'll need
  • 2 tsp hot red pepper oil
  • A thumb of ginger
  • 50g sweet Thai sauce
  • 35g peanuts
  • 2 spring onions
  • 2 bundles of Thai rice noodles
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 courgette
  • A handful of mint, leaves only
  • 1 lime
  • 2 mini romaine lettuces
  • 50g broccoli sprouts
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  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • Sea salt
You'll need
  • Large frying pan or wok
  • Medium pan
Step by step this way
  • 1.

    Peel and finely grate the ginger into a bowl. Pour the sweet Thai sauce into the bowl. Add 2 tsp hot red pepper oil and a pinch of salt and whisk together. Set to one side.

  • 2.

    Warm a large frying pan or wok pan over a medium heat. Tip in the peanuts and toast for 2-3 mins. Tip into a bowl and set aside to cool. Trim the roots and top 3cm off the spring onions and thinly slice them.

  • 3.

    Place the pan back on the heat and add 1 tbsp olive oil. Add the spring onions and a pinch of salt and cook on a medium-low heat for 3-4 mins till golden. Lift out onto a plate lined with kitchen paper to drain.

  • 4.

    Fill a medium pan of with water and brig to a boil. Add 2 bundles of noodles and cook for 3 mins till tender. Drain and rinse with cold water, then shake dry and tip back into the pan. Add the gingery sweet chilli sauce and toss to coat the noodles.

  • 5.

    Trim and peel the carrot. Cut it lengthways into thin slices, then slice those into long thin matchsticks. Trim the courgette and cut it to match. If you have a julienne peeler or sprialiser you can use that instead.

  • 6.

    Finely chop the mint leaves. Zest the lime and cut it into wedges. Roughly chop the peanuts. Cut the ends of the lettuces. Separate the leaves and arrange them on a serving platter or 2 plates.

  • 7.

    Set the pan you used to cook the spring onions back on the heat. Add 1 tbsp olive oil and the carrot and courgette. Cook for 1 min to just soften them. Tip in the noodles and broccoli sprouts. Cook and stir for 2 mins.

  • 8.

    Fill the lettuce leaf cups with the veg noodles and top with the peanuts, mint and crispy spring onions. Squeeze over the lime wedges to serve.

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