Chicken Lettuce Wrap

INGREDIENTS

  • About ½ pound chicken
  • Fresh head of butter lettuce or romaine (not iceburg)
  • Spices to taste
    – See list of alternate ingredients below.  Don’t use more than 5 total, or you will not be able to distinguish the tastes.
  • Cabbage finely shredded
  • Peanuts – roasted and salted – crushed
  • Sweet chili sauce
  • Hoisin sauce
  • Mayonnaise / Salad dressing
  • Mung bean sprouts
  • Julienne carrots
  • Rice noodles

STEP BY STEP

  1. Cut chicken into pieces, then place in zip lock bag for 4-6 hours with 1 TBL each:  Soy sauce, Sriracha, hoisin, garlic powder, grated ginger, rice wine vinegar
  2. Strain chicken and pat dry after 4-6 hours
  3. Stir fry onions till translucent
  4. Add chicken to finish cooking
  5. Mix all ingredients together
  6. Serve with large Romaine lettuce leaves (or butter lettuce for smaller wraps and a bit more flavor)
  7. Hoisin sauce or Teriyaki Dipping Sauce

Also makes a decent burro when wrapped in a flour tortilla.

ALTERNATE INGREDIENTS

  • Cilantro
  • Diced green onion
  • Garlic
  • Hoisin sauce
  • Artichokes
  • Sweet peppers
  • Shredded carrots
  • Cheddar cheese
  • Monterey jack cheese
  • Chopped black olives
  • Chopped green olives
  • Tomato
  • Feta cheese
  • Cottage cheese
  • Garlic
  • Capers
  • Mustard

P.F. Chang’s adds shittake mushrooms, sherry, bamboo shoots, and water chestnuts; but then again, they serve this with iceberg lettuce!! Yech.

Veggie Wrap

  • Dried tomato, pimiento, Kalamata olives, Feta cheese, EVOO, garlic, taragon, lemon, salt and pepper
  • Toss and serve with Bibb lettuce
  • Opt julienne cucumber and radish
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