Chilli chicken & rice
PREPARATION TIME: 10 minutes
COOKING TIME: 10 minutes
SERVES: 3-4
Ingredients
Method
Chilli chicken & rice
- Preparation time 10 minutes
- Cooking time 10 minutes
- Serves 3-4
Ingredients
- Spray canola or olive oil
- 1 red onion, finely sliced
- 300 g chicken mince
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 2 teaspoons minced ginger
- 1 red capsicum, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon MAGGI Fish Sauce
- 1-2 tablespoons MAGGI Sweet Chilli Sauce, to taste
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander
- 5 cups cooked long-grain white rice
- 12 iceberg lettuce leaves
Method
- Spray a nonstick wok or frying pan with oil and heat.
- Add the onion and cook for about 2 minutes or until just soft.
- Add the chicken mince, garlic and ginger and cook for about 5 minutes or until browned, breaking up lumps of mince with a wooden spoon.
- Add the capsicum and cook for 3 minutes more, stirring frequently.
- Add the fish sauce and sweet chilli sauce, to taste.
- Stir in the coriander.
- To serve, spoon the chicken mixture and rice into the lettuce leaves and roll up to eat with your fingers.
HINT: Use lavash or mountain bread instead of lettuce to add extra carbohydrate. Add other vegetables (such as sliced zucchini, mushrooms, corn) to the mixture to make a complete meal
Nutrition
ANALYSIS per serve | 3 | 4 |
---|---|---|
Energy kJ (Cal) | 2686 (642) | 1611 (385) |
Carbohydrate (g) | 112 | 67 |
Protein (g) | 35 | 21 |
Fat (g) | 5 | 4 |
Vitamin C, Iron, Zinc |

Australian Institute of Sport - From the "Survival for the Fittest" cookbook05 Nov 2018HINT: Use lavash or mountain bread instead of lettuce to add extra carbohydrate. Add other vegetables (such as sliced zucchini, mushrooms, corn) to the mixture to make a complete meal, Rice, survival-for-the-fittestRice
