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For a quick & easy, light lunch, these lettuce boats are a great alternative to sandwiches. Simply load up your favourite fillings.
Prep Time:
5 minutes
Cook Time:
No cooking required
Serves:
2/3/2016
Great For:
Kids 4+ Years
Not Suitable for Freezing
Ingredients
Chicken and Beansprout
- 1 lettuce
- 2 tbsp light mayonnaise
- 2 tsp plum sauce
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- 50 sliced cooked chicken
- 50 g beansprouts (2 kiddies handfuls)
Chicken and Sweetcorn
- 3 tbsp canned sweetcorn drained
- 1 spring onion, sliced
- 2 tbsp light mayonnaise
- squeeze of lemon juice
- 4 gem lettuce leaves
Prawn
- 4 gem lettuce leaves
- 100 g small cooked prawns
- 2 tbsp light mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp tomato ketchup
- a little paprika
Tuna Mix
- 4 gem lettuce leaves
- 2 tbsp crème fraiche or mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp ketchup
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- 1 x 185 g canned tuna drained
- 2 spring onions, slice
- 1/4 (2 tbsp) red pepper, diced
- 2 tbsp drained sweetcorn
Method
Chicken and Beansprout
- Mix the mayonnaise, plum sauce and lemon juice together in a large bowl.
- Shred the chicken with your fingers and add to the bowl with the beansprouts.
- Mix everything together and season with a little salt and pepper.
- Taste and add little more salt and pepper or lemon juice as you like.
Chicken and Sweetcorn
- Tear the chicken into little shreds with your fingers.
- Put in a medium bowl and mix in the sweetcorn, spring onion and mayonnaise plus a little salt and pepper to taste.
- Add a squeeze of lemon juice (1/4 tsp quarter) and taste.
- Add a bit more lemon juice if you like the mixture to be more lemony.
- Spoon the filling into lettuce leaves.
Prawn
- Mix the prawns with the mayonnaise and ketchup.
- Spoon the filling into the lettuce leaves and roll up.
Tuna Mix
- Mix the crème fraiche or mayonnaise with the ketchup and lemon juice in a large bowl.
- Flake the tuna with a fork and add to the bowl with the spring onion, red pepper and sweetcorn.
- Add salt and pepper and mix together.
- Taste and add more salt, pepper or lemon juice as you like.
