Pork San Choy Bau delivers on flavour and texture. Serve it up with some beautiful crispy lettuce leaves and all you will hear at the table is YUM!
I’ve always enjoyed San Choy Bau – even though it can be a little messy! 🙂 This is a combination of about 3 different recipes that I’ve been tweaking for awhile! This is really tasty and yummy with lovely large crisp lettuce leaves.
Ingredients
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 2cm fresh ginger
- 4 spring onions, quartered
- 1 red chilli, deseeded
- 20g olive oil
- 1 carrot, quartered
- 190g can water chestnuts, drained
- 30g soy sauce
- 30g oyster sauce
- 10g lime juice
- 15g Chinese cooking wine (or white wine)
- 1 tsp coriander, ground
- 500g pork mince
- large iceberg lettuce leaves
Instructions
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Place garlic, ginger, spring onions, chilli and oil into TM bowl and chop
3 sec / speed 8. - Scrape down and sauté 5 mins / Varoma / speed 1 / MC off.
- Add carrot and chop 3 sec / speed 6.
- Add water chestnuts and chop 2 sec / speed 4. Scrape down.
- Add soy sauce, oyster sauce, lime juice, wine and coriander.
- Place mince in simmering basket and insert into TM bowl.
- Cook 12 mins / 100°C / speed 2 / Reverse.
- Break up mince with aid of spatula and pour carefully into TM bowl. Combine well with other ingredients.
- Cook for a further 5 mins / 100°C / speed 2 / Reverse / MC off.
- To serve, spoon into large crispy lettuce leaves.
Notes
* This tastes great with chicken.
* This meal is suitable for freezing.
* Can be served with rice or noodles
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Tried this tonight. Smells yummy really quick love that. No water chestnuts or lime so i added a zucchini n a bit extra white wine kids loved it. Empty plates. Thanks Leonie.
Pleased to hear you all liked it Jenny! 🙂
Hi, after point 2, do you set asude the mince mixture? Thanks
No Carly no setting aside required for this recipe! 🙂
I made this tonight. Made a bigger size so doubled the ingredients and used the Chinese Cooking Wine instead of white and it was delicious. We had not had it before so were a bit unsure of how we were going to eat it with the Lettuce leaves so I made Hokkien Noodles on the side. They were great to eat after catching all the mince that fell from our lettuce while eating.
That’s so great to hear Gillian. It is a really lovely meal 🙂
Pork San Choy Bau. Made slightly different. No carrot so used capsicum and celery – slightly wetter mix so needed to thicken with cornflour and cook a bit longer. Added fresh turmeric as we have lots just out of the garden. No lettuce so served over Asian noodles. Served with fresh coriander, chopped spring onion and lime squeezed over top. Very tasty dish.
Thanks Marion. I love the idea of serving it over Asian noodles for a change. 🙂
I served it over rice the next time. Good too.
Thanks Marion – works perfectly over rice – great for the times we don’t have lovely large crisp lettuce leave on hand!
This is a regular on our dinner rotation but I use chicken mince instead of pork. Absolutely love how fresh it tastes and the recipe makes enough to put another serve in the freezer (which defrosts really well!) Thanks Leonie ♥
Thank you Liz 🙂
Still loving this one! It is one of hubby’s favourite meals. He even tells me when the freezer stash has been depleted lol.
That’s great to hear Elizabeth! That’s funny re hubby!!
Great all rounder recipe – delicious with lettuce or rice or noodle (or on rice and lettuce!). Also good for fussy eaters who don’t like to eat big chunks of veggies. I’ll be sure to make this again!
Yes I agree to all of it Anna 😀 Glad your family enjoyed it!
San Choy WOW ????
Glad you enjoyed it Toni 😀
Cooked it tonight. I was concerned my 5 and 3 year old might complain. It was a hit. 5yo requested we have it every night for dinner from now on. Well done!
Malia your children have great taste 😀
Finally a thermo SCB recipe that we really enjoyed!! I think the trick is using the steamer basket for the mince so its not mushy.
Served it with bean vermicelli to bulk it up a bit 😀
So pleased you enjoyed it Shelley and that you have found a winner! 🙂
I needed a quick dinner with minimal fuss. This is it. It’s such a great, healthy, delicious and versatile option. And, I was able to help the guy at Woolworths offload the large outer lettuce leaves he was about to throw away.
Thank you Anne-marie! Pleased you enjoy it! lol and good on you for helping Mr Woolworths out too! 😉
YUM YUM YUM is all I can say, this was delicious the kids scoffed it down although they weren’t big fans of the lettuce next time I’ll give them rice and make a double batch it didn’t go far !!
Fabulous to hear Louise and yes a double batch is a good idea too! 🙂
So delicious!!! Made this tonight & the family loved it. The flavours were perfect. I didn’t have ginger so I added in some cinnamon for flavour and it was great. So quick, easy & healthy! Will be a regular meal for us. Thank you.
Thanks Lisa – great to hear the cinnamon worked well with it too. 🙂
Tasty and fun to eat.
Yes a great recipe for kids as it’s fun for them too! 🙂
Delicious, easy and cheap to make. A winning trifecta.
Thanks Katie and great to hear! 🙂