Vietnamese Lemongrass Meatball Lettuce Wrap
Channel: Gerrys Daebak Recipes
Date: 04/09/2020

Ingredients
- For the meatball
Chicken mince - 500 Gms
Thai red chillies ( Chopped) -1 No.
Garlic (Finely chopped) - 5 Cloves
Ginger ( Finely chopped) - 1/2 Inch
Rice vinegar - 1 Tbsp
Coriander leaves ( chopped) -1.5 cups
Lemongrass stalk ( Finely chopped) -1 No
Salt -1 Tsp
Pepper- 1/2  Tsp
Sesame oil - For frying

 -For the dressing
Rice Vinegar - 1 Tbsp
Fish Sauce - 1Tbsp
Thai Red chillies - 1 No.
Garlic (chopped)- 1 clove
Juiced lime - 1 no

-For the wrap
Lettuce 
Carrot (julienned)
Cucumber (Julienned) 
Rice (boiled)


Method

Wash and prepare the lettuce, carrots, cucumber and rice. 

Chop the lemongrass stalk,  coriander, ginger, garlic and thai red chilli. 
In a mixing bowl , take the minced chicken. Add all ingredients  (thai red chilli, garlic, ginger, rice vinegar, coriander leaves, Lemongrass stalk, salt and pepper)
In a pan, heat the sesame oil. Make the meat mixture into small ball shapes and fry. Keep turning from time to time till all sides cook evenly. 

For the dressing, mix together chopped garlic and thai red chillies along with fish sauce and rice vinegar. squeeze in a wedge of lime. 

To make the lettuce wrap. Take one lettuce leaf. Place some rice , carrots , cucumber in a leaf along with 2 meatballs [ or more if you would like :) ]. put few spoons of the dressing in the wrap. Now all that is left to do it take a bite and enjoy. Cheers !!