Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe
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Ingredients: Do not skip any of these ingredients:
1 Tbsp oil
1 pound ground chicken or ground turkey
1 medium onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced or garlic powder
¼ cup hoisin sauce
2 Tbsp soy sauce (I use low sodium type)
1 Tbsp rice vinegar (I suppose you could use other vinegar, e.g. cider, white or red wine)
1 Tbsp freshly grated ginger root
(Cut the peel off one end of the root and peel back just a little with edge of spoon or paring knife. The rest of the peel will stay behind the fine grater. Freeze remaining root in a small zip-lock bag. You don’t need to thaw it to later grate as needed.)
1 Tbsp Sriracha sauce
1 can water chestnuts, drained and diced (I can’t remember size, but at least 8 ounces)
4 green onions including most of the green tops, thinly sliced
Salt and pepper to taste (not much salt as soy sauce is salty)
Ice burg lettuce leaves (or butter lettuce, or romaine)
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Directions:1. Cook chicken or turkey in oil over medium heat, crumbling as it cooks, but don’t be too quick to turn it, so the chicken can brown (“caramelize”) on the first side before turning/stirring.
2. Before the chicken is thoroughly cooked, stir in onion. Continue cooking until chicken is thoroughly cooked and onion is translucent. (I like to try to get the chicken “browned”.) Drain and return all to pan.
3. Stir in the garlic, sauces, vinegar and ginger, cooking another 1 – 2 minutes.
4. Stir in water chestnuts and green onions and cook another 2 minutes until all is hot. Salt and pepper to taste.
5. To serve, spoon mixture into lettuce leaf, taco-style. (We spoon the meat on our plates, get some lettuce, and fill our own as we go.) |
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Time:30 minutes |
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Notes: If adding 2oz of coconut cream, mixture will be runny and can be improved by adding a cup of cooked rice.
Can add up to 1 cup of diced peppers, such as bell peppers.
May substitute Thai chili sauce for Sriracha sauce.
For variation, make condiment available on table for sprinkling chopped roasted peanuts overtop mixture prior to rolling lettuce.
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