15-Minute Vietnamese Chicken Bowl with Nuoc Cham & Mint

15-Minute Vietnamese Chicken Bowl with Nuoc Cham & Mint

Ready in 15 minutes • Serves 2
This dish most recently appeared in My Choice (3 Nights For 2) on Sunday, November 14, 2021.
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We're taking you on a super quick trip to Vietnam with this dish. Diced chicken breast, a fragrant ready-made Vietnamese paste and pre-cooked brown rice and quinoa allow you to be at the table and eating, within just 15 minutes!

Ingredients

Chicken

  • 1 drizzle of oil
  • 300g diced free range chicken breast
  • 1/2 pack Vietnamese paste
  • 1 tsp fish sauce

Salad

  • 1 Lebanese cucumber, cut in half & thinly sliced
  • 150g slaw
  • 50g mung bean sprouts

Rice

  • 1 pack brown rice & quinoa

To Serve

  • 1 bunch mint, leaves picked
  • 50g nuoc cham

Steps

  1. Heat oil in a medium fry-pan on medium-high heat. Add chicken, Vietnamese paste and fish sauce and cook for about 5 minutes, until cooked through. Rest, covered.
  2. Cut cucumber in half and slice and toss in a medium bowl with slaw and mung beans sprouts. Season to taste with salt and set aside for serving.
  3. Tear top from rice and microwave for 2 minutes, or until hot.
  4. Pick mint leaves.
  5. Rice topped with chicken, salad, nuoc cham and mint.

Nutritional Information

Energy 1682 kj
402 kcal
Protein 39.7g
Carbohydrate 36.4g
Fat 9.3g