Monday, August 22, 2011

Lettuce Wraps

My whole family LOVES this dish!! Even my little guys have 2nds and usually 3rds (they just don't eat it all wrapped up in the lettuce)! AMAZING!!! It uses a few ingredients I wouldn't normally have on hand but once you have them they last a LOONGGG time!
Ingredients:
Special Sauce: (mix this sauce and place in fridge till ready to eat)
1/4 C Sugar
2 T Soy Sauce
2 T Rice vinegar
2 T Ketchup
1 T Lemon Juice
1/8 t sesame oil
1 t Chinese Hot Mustard
1/4 C Water
1-3 t Garlic and Red Chile Paste (I use only 1, ya we're whimps!)
Stir Fry Sauce and Ingredients:
Sauce
2 T Soy Sauce
2 T dark brown sugar
1/2 t rice vineger
3 T vegetable oil
Stir Fry ingredients
3 Chicken breasts
1 C minced water chestnuts (available in cans in asian section)
2/3 C canned straw mushrooms (never actually used this but I'm sure its delish)
3 T Chopped green onions (or more)
1 t minced garlic (or 1 clove)

Iceberg Lettuce
1/2 pkg rice noodles (orange package-maifun)
2 cups cooked rice (this is NOT in the original recipe but we like it and it helps fill us up faster)

Directions:
Cook Rice. Mix the special sauce, place in fridge. Mix stir fry sauce and set aside. Dice chestnuts, mushrooms, green onions and place all in a bowl with the garlic. Heat oil in a sauce pan then cook chicken with a dash of salt and pepper on each side till cooked through. Once chicken is cooked dice in to small small pieces. Place ALL stir fry ingredients and sauce into pan and cook through. heat 3 or so inches of oil in pan for rice noodles, once hot enough place a group of noodles in the oil (flip if needed) and remove once blown up (very fun to do). LASTLY carefully seperate each leaf of lettuce.

To eat, take a lettuce leaf and start stacking ingredients into it rice, chicken stir fry, rice noodles and then special sauce. Wrap like a burrito and ENJOY!!!!




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