Asian lettuce wraps Chicken or Beef
You know those foods you can’t stop eating and don’t know why they just taste so good.. This qualifies as one of those things..
Very addicting, so tasty we eat them twice a week..!
It’s more and app than an entrée but thats up to you, and how you pair it..
Enjoy them, my house does, now yours can too!
Beef Lettuce wraps in 15 Minutes - Fast and Delicious by TheCooknShare
Ingredients
4 people
- 1 bunch green onions
- 1 small onion
- 1 pound beef or chicken either one is great
- 2 tablespoon high heat oil
- 1 head butter lettuce
- 3-4 small sweet peppers for pickling
- 1 large carrot sm diced
- 1 can water chestnuts drained and diced 8 ounce can
- 2 garlic cloves minced or pressed
- 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1/3 cup Hoisin sauce
- Optional.. deseed and thin slice half a Serrano pepper spice 🌶
- Salt as needed to taste
- For pickled peppers
- 2 tablespoon sugar or 1/4 cup grenadine works too
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
Steps / How to Make
Slice peppers into thin slices and put into and bowl that’s able to hold hot liquid (those mini sweet pepper in most big box grocery shops)
Start with pickling liquid.. vinegar salt and sugar into small pan and bring to a simmer. Once hot, pour over peppers and set aside til very end..
Small dice on the carrots, chop the bunch of green onion small and the sm onion into slivers.. prep garlic and ginger also..
Chicken should be diced very small or use ground.. Beef should be thawed whichever your using (tip.. to diced chicken small it’s easy if it’s slightly frozen, otherwise use ground chicken) pictured half thawed thighs julienne first then go back and dice small
If using beef cook in separate pan to drain before adding to mix..
Oil into pan high heat, get those whisps of smoke and drop carrots and onion give it 30 seconds and toss through oil.. Drop garlic and ginger to the pan and toss, and as garlic toasts push to back of pan drop protein and cook..
Optional step add Serrano now.
Once you have some color on your chicken about 5 mins in add soy sauce and toss through, add drained water chestnuts bring to temp so water reduces
Add hoisin sauce and sugar bring up to temp once more..
Salt to taste, a couple fast grinds should do it.. or fast splash of fish sauce
Drain peppers save 1/4 teaspoon liquid and add the saved liquid with chopped green onions at this time toss twice remove from heat.
Serve in the butter lettuce as small cups or use romaine to wrap up as tacos.. works over rice too.
Top with pickled peppers.
Optional crunchy rice noodles
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