An explosion of flavours from the East placed into a lettuce cup. We all love Thai food, but our cups contain half the calories and fat of big curries.

Add more chilli if you love more heat

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 piece fresh root ginger, peeled and grated
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 2 red chillies, deseeded and finely sliced
• 500g low fat pork mince
• 2 tbsp fish sauce
• Juice of 1 lime
• 2 lime leaves, finely shredded

To serve

• Iceberg or Little Gem lettuce leaves
• 1 handful mint, roughly chopped
• Handful of toasted peanuts, roughly chopped
• 2 spring onions, finely sliced
• 1 lime, cut into wedges

Method

1. Heat olive oil in a large frying pan on a medium heat.
2. Fry the ginger, garlic and chillies for 1 min.
3. Add the pork mince and cook on a high heat until golden brown, breaking it up with a wooden spoon as you go.
4. Add fish sauce, lime juice and shredded lime leaves, then cook everything down.
5. Tip the mince into a serving bowl and serve with lettuce leaves for wrapping, peanuts for scattering and lime wedges for squeezing.

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