Oriental Lettuce Wraps
photo by CaliforniaJan
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 head iceberg lettuce
- 453.59 g ground chicken
- 14.79 ml soy sauce
- 14.79 ml oyster sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 14.79 ml sherry wine
- 14.79 ml oil
- 4.92 ml minced ginger
- 3 green onions, chopped
- 12 medium mushrooms, chopped fine
- 1 carrot, chopped fine
- 1 small zucchini, chopped fine
- 236.59 ml cooked rice
- 4.92 ml cornstarch
- 29.58 ml water
- 59.14 ml hoisin sauce
- 59.14 ml teriyaki sauce
- 59.14 ml hot chili sauce
directions
- Wash the lettuce, dry, and separate the leaves. Set aside.
- To make sauce, mix together soy sauce,oyster sauce and sherry; set aside.
- Heat oil in a non-stick frying pan on high heat. Add the garlic, ginger, and onions fry until the garlic and ginger are aromatic.
- Add meat, stir-fry until meat crumbles and no longer pink (5 minutes).
- Add carrot, zucchini, mushrooms,rice and sauce ingredients; stir fry about 3 minutes.
- Stir together cornstarch & water and add to the sauce, stirring to thicken.
- Lay out a lettuce leaf and spoon a heaping teaspoon of the chicken and vegetable/sauce mixture into the middle.
- The lettuce wraps are designed to be eaten "taco-style," with the lettuce/chicken mixture folded into a package.
- Continue with the remainder of the chicken and lettuce leaves. Serve with the dipping sauces on the side.
- Hoisin sauce
- Teriyaki sauce
- Hot chilli sauce.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Sageca
Canada
I love to cook, read recipe books and food magazines,spend time in kitchen stores, grocery stores, gourmet shops, learning new cooking techniques, trying new kitchen gadgets,tasting exotic foods,enjoying a wonderful meal. I've always had a herb garden; now I have containers on my patio with my must have herbs. It seems, everything tastes better with fresh herbs!