Top Secret P.F. Chang’s Chicken in Soothing Lettuce Wraps

Categories: Asian, appetizer

Ingredients

• Special Sauce:
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp rice vinegar
• 2 tbsp ketchup
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1/8 sesame oil
• 1 tbsp Chinese hot mustard powder
• 2 tbsp water
• 1 to 3 tsp chili garlic sauce
• Stir-Fry Sauce:
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp dark brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp rice vinegar
• Filling:
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 skinless chicken breast filets
• 1 cup diced water chestnuts
• 2/3 cup diced straw mushrooms
• 3 tbsp chopped green onion
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 cup fried maifun rice sticks
• 4 to 5 iceberg lettuce cups

Directions

1. Make the special sauce: in a bowl, dissolve the sugar in the water. Add the soy sauce, rice vinegar, ketchup, lemon juice and sesame oil. Mix well and refrigerate this sauce until you’re read to serve the lettuce wraps. Combine the 2 tsps water with the Chinese hot mustard powder and set aside as well. Eventually you will add your desired measurements of Chinese mustard and chili garlic sauce to the special sauce mixture to pour over your lettuce wraps.

2. Prepare the stir fry sauce by mixing all of the ingredients together in a small bowl.

3. To prepare the filling: Bring 2 tbsp of the vegetable oil to high heat in a wok or large frying pan. Saute the chicken breasts for 4 to 5 minutes per side or until done. Remove chicken from the pan to cool. Keep the oil in the pan.

4. As the chicken cools, be sure your water chestnuts and mushrooms have been diced to about the size of small peas.

5. When you can handle the chicken, hack it up with a sharp knife so that no piece is bigger than a dime. With the wok or pan on high heat, add the remaining tbsp of vegetable oil. Add the chicken, water chestnuts, mushrooms, green onions and garlic to the pan. Add stir fry sauce and saute the mixture for a couple of minutes, then spoon it into a dish lined with a bed of friend rice noodles (maifun).

6. Serve chicken with a side of lettuce cups. Make these lettuce cups by slicing the top off of a head of iceberg lettuce right through the middle of the head. Pull your lettuce cups off the outside of this slice.

7. Make the special sauce at the table by adding your desired measurements of mustard and chili sauce to the special sauce blend: 1 tsp each of mustard and chili sauce for mild, 2 tsp each for medium, 3 tsp each for hot. Stir well.

8. Assemble lettuce wraps by spooning filling into lettuce cup, adding special sauce over the top and folding up like a taco.

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