Lettuce Wrap Recipe, YUM!!

Special Sauce

1/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. water
2 Tbsp. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. rice vinegar
2 Tbsp. ketchup
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/8 tsp. sesame oil
1 Tbsp. Chinese hot mustard
2 tsp. water
1 to 3 tsp. garlic chili paste

Make the special sauce for spooning over the lettuce wraps by dissolving the sugar in water in a small bowl. Add soy sauce, rice vinegar, ketchup,lemon juice and sesame oil. Mix well and refrigerate this sauce until you are ready to serve Lettuce Wraps. Combine the 2 tsp. water and the Chinese hot mustard and set aside as well. When ready to serve you will add your desired amount of Chinese mustard and chili paste to the special sauce mixture to pour over your lettuce wraps. ( The Chinese mustard and chili paste will add heat to your sauce, start with one and so on)


Stir-Fry Mixture

2 Tbsp. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. dark brown sugar
1/2 tsp. rice vinegar

Mix together and add to chicken when called for.


Other Ingredients

1 c. maifun(rice sticks) These need to be cooked separately and will be just a condiment for your wraps
3 Tbsp. vegetable or canola oil
2 chicken fillets
1 c. minced water chestnuts
2/3 canned straw mushrooms
3 Tbsp. chopped green onion
1 tsp. minced garlic
4 to 5 sliced iceberg lettuce cups

To prepare filling for lettuce wraps bring vegetable oil to high heat in wok or frying pan. Saute chicken breast for 4 to 5 minute per side or until done. Remove chicken from pan to cool. As the chicken cools be sure your water chestnuts and mushrooms have been minced to about the size of small peas. When you can handle the chicken hack it up with a sharp knife so that no piece is bigger than a dime(I go a little smaller). With the pan still on high heat, add an additional Tbsp. oil. Add chicken, garlic, water chestnuts green onions and mushrooms to the pan. Add the stir-fry sauce to the pan and saute the mixture for a couple of minutes then serve it on a dish lined with a bed of fried rice noodles(maifun). Serve chicken with side of lettuce cups. Make these lettuce cups by slicing the top off a head of iceberg lettuce right through the middle of the head. Pull your lettuce cups off of the out side of this slice.

Have fun and enjoy. Cooking the rice noodles(sticks) are almost as fun as the Lettuce Wraps are wonderful tasting.