Chicken Lettuce Cups

Another midweek meal for the family. Not a huge meal, but the noodles, vegetables and chicken will not leave you feeling like you've only had an appetizer. I also love to stray away from the standard fork and knife; starch, vegetable and protein plate.

Ingredients

For the Sauce:
1 Tbs Soy sauce
1 Tbs Fish sauce
1 Tbs Brown sugar
1 Tsp Grated ginger

For the cups:
4 Sliced chicken thighs
Butter lettuce
Sliced jicama
Sliced red cabbage
Sliced mango
Boiled chowmein noodles
1 Red chilli pepper

Preparation

Begin by frying the chicken thighs in some sesame oil or other frying oil on Med-High heat. once the meat starts to brown add the soy sauce, fish sauce, brown sugar and ginger.  Turn down the heat to medium,
this should thicken and make a sticky sweet sauce for the chicken.

While the sauce is thickening, pull some leaves from the butter lettuce and arrange them on your serving plate. Begin adding your fillings; add the jicama, cabbage, and chowmein noodles.

Evenly distribute your chicken on top of the cups and then add the mango slices.

Finely chop your red chilli and sprinkle over the cups.  additionally I added to black sesame seeds, but these are optional. You could also add some nuts or seeds like cashews.


Enjoy! Knife and fork optional I much prefer to dig in with my hands on this meal.