Asian Style Chicken Lettuce Wraps

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups chopped cooked chicken
• 1 tsp sesame oil 
• 2 T soy
• 2 T rice vinegar
• 1 T chile paste
• 1 T sweet chili pepper sauce
• 1/3 cup or more chopped water chestnuts (I serve these on the side because I hate them)
• 1/4 cup or more chow mein noodles
• 1 carrot, shredded
• 1/2 cup shredded red cabbage
• 1/2 cup shredded green cabbage
• 1/2 cup chopped green onions
• butter/bibb lettuce leaves

DIRECTIONS:

1. Mix the vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, water chestnuts, noodles, gren onions and cooked chicken in a bowl. Set aside.
2. Mix up a dipping sauce like peanut dipping sauce or Thai style sweet and spicy sauce. (See below)
3. Pull the lettuce leaves off and rinse and dry.
4. Heat the chicken mixture until warm, in a small saucepan or in the microwave if you use one. It doesn’t need to be hot, just warm.
5. Serve everything at the table and let everyone build their wraps, laying a lettuce leave on the plate, spooning some chicken mixture on that, then topping with some cabbage and carrots. Roll up like a burrito and dip into the sauce(s) of your choice. Or spoon some of the sauce down the top and then roll it up.

Peanut Dipping Sauce

• 1/3 cup peanut butter
• 3 Tbs hot water
• 1 tsp lime juice
• 2-3 tsp plum sauce 

Mix it all up and serve!

 
Thai Sweet & Spicy Sauce

 

 

• 1/2 cup white vinegar
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 heaping Tbs chili-garlic sauce

DIRECTIONS:

1. Combine the vinegar, sugar and salt in a small saucepan and simmer 8-10 minutes.
2. Remove from the heat and stir in the chili-garlic sauce. Serve at room temperature.