Ingredients

These ingredients serve 1, so multiply up as you wish.

150g chicken breast, beef, even shrimp - sliced (shrimp would not be sliced)

1/2 teaspoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon crushed black pepper

1/3 teaspoon chilli sauce (optional, preferably vietnamese or chinese chili sauce)

1 teaspoon oil + extra for cooking

1 tablespoon soy sauce

1 tablespoon oyster sauce

1 tablespoon tomato ketchup

2 cloves of garlic, crushed

1/2 an onion, chopped

A few lettuce leaves

Rice

For the pepper sauce:

1/2 teaspoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon crushed back pepper

1/2 teaspoon crushed garlic

1/4 of a lime

Preparation

  • Mix sugar, salt, pepper, oil, soy sauce, oyster sauce, ketchup and garlic in a mixing bowl, add meat and coat thouroughly. Marinate 30 to 60 minutes.
  • Mix salt, sugar, pepper and garlic in small bowls (pepper sauce for each person)
  • Add oil to a wok, sautee onions until brown and add chicken, stir fry 5 to 10 minutes, until done.
  • Mix in chili sauce as desired.
  • Prepare serving plates with rice and a bed of lettuce
  • Just before serving, squeeze the juice of 1/2 lime into the pepper sauce and stir lightly.
  • Serve chicken over lettuce with pepper sauce on side. The chicken is eaten wrapped in a lettuce leaf and dipped into the pepper sauce.

For a little more punch, add chili sauce to marinade rather than while cooking and marinate an extra 30 minutes.