No P.F. Chang’s restaurant over here people. (Which is probably a good thing, as their food is packed with sodium, oil, and fat.) But I do love their lettuce wraps! So here’s my best effort to re-create them at home. The verdict? “Super-duper” according to my hubby. They are delicious and nutritious and crazy messy to eat. So stock up on napkins and dig in!
Ingredients:
1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 white onion, finely chopped
3 cloves fresh garlic, minced
1 cup fresh button mushrooms, cleaned and finely chopped
1 lb. ground chicken
1/2 red bell pepper, finely diced
1/2 yellow bell pepper, finely diced
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
1 Tablespoon fresh cilantro, finely chopped
1 Tablespoon green onions, finely sliced
3 Tablespoons soy sauce
3 Tablespoons hoisin sauce
2 Tablespoons rice vinegar
1 head fresh iceberg lettuce, cleaned, dried with leaves separated
Directions:
- Bring a large wok or deep skillet up to medium high heat.
- Add vegetable oil, onions, and garlic and saute 1-2 minutes until softened.
- Add mushrooms, ground chicken, diced bell peppers, and ginger.
- Cook, stirring constantly, on high heat 5 minutes, or until chicken is completely browned.
- Drain liquid.
- Add remaining ingredients and stir to combine.
- Bring down to a simmer and cook 5 minutes until slightly thickened.
- Scoop hot chicken mixture into lettuce pieces. Roll up and eat!
Tried this tonight (with pork since I couldn’t find chicken) and it was SOOO good! The kids loved it, especially Will. I can’t believe how much he ate! And when it was all gone, he actually scraped the empty pan with lettuce leaves to get every last bit of the sauce. I can already tell this one will become a regular at our house.
So glad it was a hit!! We loved it too!! Plus Ryan was eating mounds of veggies without realizing it–big bonus 🙂
Where did you find minced chicken? Or did you do it yourself? I am having to drag my broken food processor out of the basement just for this.
I found both ground chicken and ground turkey at the big Auchan. Such great shopping here!!!
Hi again KP. I’m def stalking you!! Guess what?!? I found hoisin sauce at the Indian Market Sunita told us about. No kidding. And only 1,35. Quite a deal at that.
Awesome! I\’ll have to hit that market one of these days to see what they have!
Well, Ms. KP since you didn’t get back to me about the hoisin sauce, ahem, I had to get creative. Turns out you can mix equal parts ketchup and molasses to make a hoisin substitute. No molasses, but I had treacle (thank you Little Britain.) I also didn’t have rice wine vinegar so I used 3 parts white to 1 part water, also a substituion. AND Cactus wouldn’t grind my chicken SO I used porc. 3 substitutions. And it was delicious!! I served it over basmati rice (from an Uncle Ben’s packet, thank you very much.) I’ve really enjoyed trying these recipes. I made Balsamic chicken on Tuesday. I really like that one. Okay. See you tomorrow. xo
So sorry I didn\’t respond sooner about the hoisin sauce! I found it at the big Cactus in Route d\’Arlon. But it sounds like your substitutions were yummy anyhow!!
Yum. I love these too. Where did you find Hoisin sauce?
Hey Katy, I found the hoisin at Cactus, in the Asian section. Auchan doesn\’t have it, that I could find. These were yummy!!!!