Starters & Light meals

Chicken lettuce wraps

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07 March 2025
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Easy
5 minutes
15 minutes

For a 15-minute snack or light meal, Wayne Chang has you sorted with these chicken lettuce wraps. Asian flavours offer depth and colour to chicken mince and mushrooms. Pile the mixture into lettuce leaves for crunch and top it with Tabasco or chilli crunch for heat.

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Ingredients

Method
  • 500 g chicken mince
  • 120 g shiitake mushrooms, sliced
  • 3 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 2 T fish sauce
  • 1 T rice vinegar
  • 2 T dark soya sauce
  • 1 t ground black pepper
  • salt, to taste
  • 2 heads Romaine lettuce
  • Tabasco sauce, for serving
  • Woolworths chilli crunch, for serving

1 Place the chicken and mushrooms in a pan over a medium heat and cook until the liquid has evaporated. Add the garlic, fish sauce, rice vinegar, soya sauce and black pepper. Add salt to taste if necessary. Cook until all the liquids have evaporated.

2 Carefully separate and rinse the lettuce leaves. Pat dry and fill the lettuce leaves with the chicken-and-mushroom mixture, and drizzle over the Tabasco and chilli crunch if using.

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Videographer: Romy Wilson
Photographer: Shavan Rahim
Food Assistant: Bianca Jones

Wayne Chang

Recipe by: Wayne Chang

Wayne Chang is a South African food content creator who shares food videos under the handle @munchin_mash on Instagram and Tiktok.

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