San Choi Bau, A.K.A ‘Parcels’.

This is Zach’s favourite dinner by a mile.

5cm ginger, grated

1 garlic clove, crushed or finely choped

2 carrots, finely diced

1 zucchini, finely diced

A handful of mushrooms, finely diced

Baby corn, finely diced (or corn kernels)

Snow peas, thinly sliced on the diagonal

4 spring onions, thinly sliced on the round

500g of mince of your choice (I alternate between pork and chicken mince).

Noodles of your choice

Soy sauce

Hoisin sauce

Lettuce leaves, Cos, baby gem, iceberg

To make life easy, I dice the vegetables, onion, garlic and ginger and put them into a bowl together, keeping the snow peas aside.

Heat some oil in a heavy bottomed frying pan and then add the vegetable mix. Stir over medium heat until the vegetables have softened.

Remove veg from pan. Add another splash of oil and make sure the pan is hot.

Add the mince to the pan and push it down so the whole pan is covered. When it starts to brown, begin to break it up and stir until cooked through. Add the vegetables to the pan and stir. When all combined add some soy sauce and hoisin sauce. A couple of tablespoons of each works for us, but do it to your taste.

Add the noodles and stir through so all combined.

Serve a portion of mince/veg/noodle mix in a small bowl and give the kids a plate with some lettuce leaves on it. Mine love to spoon their own mix onto the lettuce, fold it up into a parcel and take big bites where they invariably drop the bulk of the parcel's contents back onto the plate or, more often than not, the floor.

Mark and I will then add the following to ours for a slightly more grown up version.

1 red chilli, deseeded and thinly sliced

Handful of coriander and mint

Bean shoots