Chicken San Choy Bau Recipe

Healthy Chicken San Choy Bau lettuce wraps with vegetables and herbs. Perfect for quick, nutritious.

This Chicken San Choy Bau recipe is truly a treat for the whole family!

Chicken San Choy Bau Recipe

Recipe by Stay at Home Mum
5.0 from 1 vote

A fresh and flavorful Asian-inspired dish with minced chicken, vegetables, and savory sauce, served in crisp lettuce cups for a light, hands-on meal.

Course: Chicken Recipes, Meats, RecipesCuisine: ChineseDifficulty: Easy
Servings
+

4

servings
Prep time

15

minutes
Cooking time

15

minutes
Calories

220

kcal
Total time

30

minutes
Cook Mode

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Ingredients

  • 1g Canola Oil one tablespoon

  • 1 White Onion finely chopped

  • 1 Celery 1 stick

  • 500 g Chicken Mince

  • 1 Carrot grated

  • 150 g Mushrooms finely chopped

  • 1/4 g Water Chestnuts chopped

  • 2 tbsp Bean Sprouts chopped

  • 50 g Snow Peas finely shredded

  • 1/4 Hoisin Sauce 1/4 cup

  • 1 tsp Sesame Oil

  • 8 Iceberg Lettuce

  • 1 tsp Sesame Seeds toasted

Directions

  • Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan over medium high heat. Add the onion and celery and cook for 3-4 minutes or until golden. Add the chicken mince and mix together, breaking the mince up with a fork. Cook for a further 5 minutes.
  • Stir in the carrot, mushrooms, water chestnuts, bean sprouts, snow peas, hoisin and sesame oil and continue cooking for 5 minutes, tossing to coat chicken mix entirely in the sauce.
  • Serve the san choy bau mix spooned into lettuce cups and sprinkle with sesame seeds to serve.

Notes

  • For this Chicken San Choy Bau Recipe, try tossing the san choy bau mince through vermicelli noodles as a stir – fry, or use as a filling for spring rolls or dumplings.

Make use of your leftover chicken mince by transforming it to this meaty and veggie treat. This recipe could also make use of either chicken or pork mince, also chicken breast is a good option. Serve with noodles and you’re good to go!

Chicken San Choy Bau Recipe

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Clare Whitfield Chief Editor
Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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