The recipe details how to make Chicken Lettuce Wraps, a flavorful dish featuring a savory chicken filling wrapped in crisp lettuce leaves. The chicken filling is prepared with ground chicken, diced onions, water chestnuts, and seasonings, cooked together until flavorful. A homemade Hoisin Sauce adds depth with ingredients like garlic, ginger, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, and spices. The mixture is then spooned onto individual lettuce leaves and topped with additional sauce and sliced green onions. This summary captures the essence of the dish and its preparation steps.
2tablespoonsChili Paste or SrirachaAdjust to Taste
1teaspoonGround White or Black Pepper
Instructions
Prepare the Hoisin Sauce by combining minced garlic, grated ginger, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, rice vinegar, chili paste, and ground white pepper in a bowl. Set the sauce aside.
Separate the leaves of the romaine or butter lettuce and thoroughly wash and dry them.
Heat olive oil in a pan over medium heat, then add ground chicken. Crumble the chicken and cook for about 2 minutes.
Add the diced yellow onion to the pan and continue cooking until the chicken is no longer pink and the onions are soft, about 5 minutes. Drain any excess fat from the pan.
Stir in the chopped water chestnuts. Cook for about a minute.
Pour 3/4 of the prepared Hoisin Sauce into the pan with the chicken mixture. Cook for an additional 2-3 minutes, or until the sauce thickens and coats the ingredients.
To assemble, take individual lettuce leaves and fill each one with about 1/4 cup of the chicken filling.
Top each filled lettuce cup with extra Hoisin Sauce and sliced green onions.