Thai San Choy Bow
The most delicious take on lettuce wraps yet, made so quickly with a Thermie and a wok! Dinner is served.
San choy bow is a popular Chinese-inspired dish featuring a flavourful filling, typically made from minced meat such as pork, chicken, or beef, stir-fried with aromatics like garlic, ginger, and onions, and seasoned with soy sauce, oyster sauce, and hoisin sauce. The mixture is then spooned into crisp lettuce cups, creating a refreshing, low-carb wrap that balances savoury, sweet, and umami flavors with the crunch of fresh lettuce. Often served as an appetizer or light meal, san choy bow is versatile, easily customisable with different proteins, vegetables, or plant-based alternatives, and is a fun, hands-on dining experience.
It's the kind of dish you can get the kids involved with, adding all sorts of extra fresh veggies that they can then add to the lettuce cups.
We decided to go with the Thai flavours on this one, it is sooo good. We know you will love it.
If you are new to my site, you should know that Thai recipes are one of my strengths. We have taken our travellers to Thailand on a foodie trip, we have a Thai ebook, (which is free to Insider Clubbers),and there are loads of Thai recipes throughout the site. Make sure you check them out.
Here are a few of my absolute faves:
Thai Wild Rice Salad With Mango
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Need
- 1 brown onion quartered
- 1 red chilli
- 7 cloves garlic
- 1 stalk lemongrass, white part only
- 70 Grams tomatoes, chopped roughly
- 30 Grams shrimp paste
- 30 Grams sesame oil
- 700 pork, beef or chicken mince
- 1 Teaspoon white pepper
- 70 Grams fish sacue
- 2 limes juice only
- 70 Grams coconut sugar
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Garnishes
- 2-3 red chilli julienned
- 2-3 spring onions, julienned
- 1 Handful fresh coriander or cilantro
- iced water as needed
- 1 iceberg lettuce, leaves separated
- Thermomix Cooked Rice to serve Recipe
Do
- 1
Place onion, chili, garlic, lemongrass, tomatoes, shrimp paste and sesame oil into the Thermomix bowl and blend 10 sec/speed 10. Tip into a large frying pan and saute until fragrant and starting to caramelise.
- 2
Meanwhile, season the pork or chicken with pepper, fish sauce and lime juice, stirring through with a large spoon. Set aside.
- 3
Add seasoned meat and sugar to the frying pan and cook until well browned and cooked through.
- 4
Prepare garnish by placing sliced chillies, spring onions and coriander leaves into a large bowl of iced water.
- 5
Serve meat with lettuce leaves and/or rice, and top with well-drained garnishes.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
