Is it a salad? Is it a wrap? No. It’s larb, and it’s right here to make your lunchtime tastier. This can be a good healthy-but-tasty finger-food meal for when you’ve got associates over and wish to serve one thing enjoyable and casual.
Timings
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Serves
4 (as a lunch or starter)
Substances
- 2 x 400g tins jackfruit
- 1 lemongrass stalk
- 1 garlic clove
- 2.5cm piece recent ginger
- 2 to three pink chillies
- 10g recent coriander
- 10g recent mint
- 50g salted peanuts
- 2 child gem lettuces
- 1 tbsp groundnut oil
For the dressing
- 2 limes
- 1 banana shallot
- 1 tbsp mild soy sauce
- 1 tbsp candy chilli sauce
Technique
- Preheat oven to 220C/200C fan/gasoline mark 7. Drain and rinse the jackfruit, then pat dry with a clear tea towel. Unfold out on the lined baking tray and roast within the oven for 20 minutes. Use two forks to drag aside and shred the jackfruit.
- In the meantime, trim the lemongrass stalk, strip the bark and slice finely. Peel and finely grate the garlic and ginger and finely slice the chillies. Choose the coriander leaves, finely slice the stems and choose the mint leaves. Break the peanuts up within the pestle and mortar. Lower away the stems of the lettuce, pull aside the bigger leaves and rinse below chilly water. Halve the limes for the dressing, peel the shallot, reduce it in half and finely slice it lengthways.
- Heat the oil within the wok over a medium-high warmth. Add the jackfruit and stir for 3 minutes, then add the lemongrass, garlic, ginger, two of the chillies and the coriander stems and stir for 2 minutes. Flip the warmth all the way down to very low, stirring sometimes to verify it doesn’t catch.
- To make the dressing, squeeze the lime juice right into a bowl. Add the sliced shallot and squash it barely to interrupt it down. Add the soy sauce and candy chilli and stir.
- Spoon the jackfruit combination into the lettuce leaves, drizzle over the dressing, garnish with the coriander, mint leaves, damaged peanuts and some slices of chilli when you prefer it additional kicky!
Recipe from BOSH! on a Price range by Henry Firth and Ian Theasby (HarperCollins, £16.99). Order you copy from The Telegraph Bookshop.
