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A close friend of ours is turning 21 again tomorrow and she asked me for this recipe… Happy Birthday, can’t wait to see you guys!!!

I made a similar dish to this for Zoey years ago (trying to create a tasty 5-2 diet recipe) it was great but I promptly forgot how I make it. Thankfully, Zoey found this recipe and we have used it as our base ever since. One thing to mention, I am writing this recipe as it was found in a Tesco Magazine, where we doctored it, I wrote it as we make it or was a tad more specific than the actual printed recipe. We actually make our rice in a rice cooker and so don’t follow this method – **To be truly forthcoming, we would not serve this with rice but use the small baby lettuce leaves as wraps instead.

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 1Tbsp Sesame Oil
• 3 Lemon Grass Stalks – Roughly Chopped
• 1 Red Onion – Roughly Chopped
• 5 Garlic Cloves – Roughly Chopped
• 1 Red Chilli – Deseeded and Chopped
• Roughly 1″ Piece Root Ginger – Grated or Chopped
• 1 x 633g Pack Turkey Mince (Ground Turkey)
• 1 Lime – Juiced
• 1tsp Chilli Powder
• 2Tbsp Fish Sauce
• 2 x 250g Packs Microwaveable Basmati Rice
• Handful Mint Leaves
• Handful Coriander Leaves
• 2 Little Gem Lettuces

Directions:

1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a high heat.
2. Meanwhile, to make the Thai spice mixture, put the roughly chopped lemon grass, red onion and garlic, the deseeded and chopped chilli, and the root ginger into a small food processor. Whizz until you have a course paste.
3. Add the turkey mince to the hot pan, stirring occasionally until browned. This should take about 5 minutes.
4. Add the lime juice to the Turkey, along with the Thai Spice mixture, Chilli Powder and Fish Sauce.
5. Stir the mixture until everything is thoroughly combined.
6. Meanwhile, cook the rice following the pack instructions. **We don’t do this part
7. While the rice is cooking, roughly chop the mint and coriander leaves and separate the little gem lettuce leaves.
8. Stir the herbs into the turkey and serve with the lettuce leaves and rice.

Again, we don’t normally serve this with rice but we have added peanuts and cashew nuts on occasion and that was quite good – I would chop and toast them first when I did it

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