Chicken lettuce wraps
Chicken lettuce wraps, from above
Non vegUnited States

Chicken lettuce wraps

Savoury hoisin chicken spooned into crisp lettuce cups. Eat with your hands, drip shamelessly.

20 minTime
26 gProtein each
mildSpice
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Grandma's wayHoisin chicken in iceberg cups.
The original
309kcalsame
26 gproteinsame
3 gfibresame
20minutessame

Chicken lettuce wraps.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

4 servings
Chicken mince (ground chicken)500 g chicken mince
Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1 tbsp
Garlic3 cloves, minced
Ginger2.5 cm, grated
Button mushroom1½ cups, finely diced
Carrot1 small, finely diced
Hoisin sauce2½ tbsp
Soy sauce1 tbsp
Vinegar2 tsp
Sesame oil1 tsp
Red chilli sauce2 tsp
Spring onion (green onion, scallion)3, sliced
Lettuce1 head iceberg, leaves separated
Peanuts2 tbsp, crushed

Method

4 steps
  1. 1Heat the oil and cook the chicken mince on high, breaking it up, until no pink remains and it starts to brown.
  2. 2Add garlic, ginger, mushroom and carrot and cook until the mushrooms dry out.
  3. 3Stir in hoisin, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil and chilli sauce and toss until glossy. Add most of the spring onion.
  4. 4Spoon into cold lettuce cups and top with peanuts and the rest of the spring onion.
Serve it like this

Serve the hot filling in a bowl with a stack of chilled lettuce cups, peanuts and extra chilli sauce for everyone to build their own.

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What goes with Chicken lettuce wraps: a bread or rice, a side, something to drink and something sweet.

Bread or rice Egg fried rice20 min
Bread or rice Methi thepla40 min
On the side Hot and sour soup30 min
On the side Smashed cucumber salad15 min
A little snack Veg spring rolls50 min
To drink Pink lemonade15 min
Something sweet Apple pie150 min
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