Dinner

Pork Larb in Lettuce Cups

Name: Pork Larb in Lettuce Cups
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 170 g Pork mince, 5% fat; 10 g Basmati rice; 30 g Shallot; 2 tsp, about 10 g Fish sauce; Juice of one lime Lime juice; Half a teaspoon Chilli flakes; 20 g Spring onion; A big handful Fresh mint; A big handful Fresh coriander; 100 g Little gem lettuce; 80 g Cucumber

Thai-style minced pork dressed hot with lime, fish sauce, toasted rice and herbs, spooned into lettuce leaves. 39 g of protein for 302 kcal.

Calories: 302kcal
Protein: 39g
Fat: 9g
Carbs: 17g

Per serving, makes 1. 15 minutes of work. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Fish

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Ingredients

Pork mince, 5% fat170 g
Weighed raw.
Basmati rice10 g
Toasted dry in a pan until golden and ground coarsely. It is the texture of larb and there is no substitute. Dry weight, before cooking.
Shallot30 g
Fish sauce2 tsp, about 10 g
Lime juiceJuice of one lime
Chilli flakesHalf a teaspoon
Spring onion20 g
Fresh mintA big handful
Fresh corianderA big handful
Little gem lettuce100 g
Leaves separated whole, to use as cups.
Cucumber80 g

Method

Toast the rice in a dry pan over a medium heat, shaking, for five minutes until golden. Grind it in a pestle and mortar or under a rolling pin to a coarse sand.
Cook the pork in the same dry pan with two tablespoons of water, breaking it up, until it is cooked through and the water has gone. Do not brown it.
Take the pan off the heat and stir in the fish sauce, lime juice, chilli flakes and the sliced shallot while the meat is still hot.
Let it cool for two minutes, then fold in the toasted rice, spring onion and the herbs, torn. Spoon it into the lettuce leaves with the cucumber batons on the side.

Worth knowing

Larb is dressed hot and eaten warm. The shallot goes in raw and softens in the heat of the meat, which is the whole method.
Without rice or noodles alongside, this sits in the lighter band. It is usually eaten with sticky rice, and 100 g of cooked rice would add about 130 kcal.

Other dinner recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every dinner between 300 and 450 calories a serving.

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