WEEKEND RECIPE: Camouflaged Chicken San Choy Bau:

Are you having a hard time to get your child to eat more vegetables? This San Choy Bau recipe by The Secret Serve is a tasty and fun way to add more veggies to your child's diet! Bonus: It's so easy to make with just 10 minutes of preparation time required!

Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins
Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 1 TBSP Canola Oil
• 1 White Onion, finely chopped
• 1 stick celery
• 500g Chicken mince
• 1 carrot, grated
• 150g mushrooms, finely chopped
• 1/4 cup chopped water chestnuts
• 2 TBSP chopped bean sprouts
• 50g finely shredded snow peas
• 1/4 cup Hoisin Sauce
• 1 TSP sesame oil
• 8 iceberg lettuce leaves
• 1 TBSP toasted sesame seeds

Method:

1. Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan over medium high heat. Add the onion and celery and cook for 3-4 minutes or until golden. Add the chicken mince and mix together, breaking up the mince up with a fork. Cook for a further 5 minutes.
    
2. Stir in the carrot, mushrooms, water chestnuts, bean sprouts, snow peas, hoisin and sesame oil and continue cooking for 5 minutes, tossing to coat chicken mix entirely in the sauce.
    
3. Serve the san choy bau mix spooned into lettuce cups and sprinkle with sesame seeds to serve.

Note - If preferred, try tossing the san choy bau mince through vermicelli noodles as a stir-fry, or use as a filling for spring rolls or dumplings.