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Lemongrass chicken and aubergine and warm spring onion vinaigrette
Photo: Lily Banse

Lemongrass chicken and aubergine and warm spring onion vinaigrette

15 ingredients 1 hr + 1 hr Serves 2 openrecipes

Cooking aubergine over a open flame gives it a delicious smokey flavour which complements the freshness of spring onions and lemongrass.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

621
Calories
38g
Protein
18g
Fat
76g
Carbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Shallot 1 tbsp minced (10g) 7
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 4 chicken thighs
  • 4 tbsp chopped lemongrasslemongrass
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp fish sauce
  • 35g/1¼oz dark palm sugar
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 Japanese long aubergine
  • 10g/⅓oz finely chopped shallot
  • 1 tbsp chopped spring onion
  • 1 shallot
  • sea salt
  • 75g/2½oz pickling liqueur (equal quantities of caster sugar and water, flavoured with a smashed garlic clove)
  • 75g/2½oz Vietnamese chilli paste
  • 2 lime leaves
  • jasmine rice

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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