Chicken Lettuce Wraps

4.78 from 9 votes

Chicken Lettuce Wraps - quick, easy and the best lettuce wraps recipe with juicy and moist ground chicken wrapped up with fresh and crisp lettuce leaves. Homemade is always better than P. F. Chang's or Chinese takeout.

Prep Time15

Cook Time5

Total Time20

Course: Chicken

Cuisine: Chinese Recipes

Keyword: chicken lettuce wraps

Servings: people

Author: Bee Yinn Low

Ingredients

1 lb (500g) ground chicken breast
2- inch (2.5cm) carrots peeled, diced into tiny squares
3 cloves garlic chopped finely
2 tablespoons cooking oil

Marinade:

1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1/2 teaspoon dark soy sauce for coloring purpose
1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
1 tablespoon Chinese Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry, optional
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 stalk scallion finely chopped
3 dashes ground white pepper
1 fresh and cold iceberg lettuce or butter lettuce

Hoisin Dipping Sauce:

3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
1/2 teaspoon sriracha chili sauce
1 tablespoon warm water

Sweet Chili Sauce:

4 tablespoons sweet chili sauce Mae Ploy
some cilantro leaves chopped
1/2 tablespoon lime juice

Instructions

Mix the ground chicken meat and carrots with all the Marinade ingredients. Set aside for 15 minutes.
Mix the dipping sauces and set aside. Heat a wok or pan and add the cooking oil. Sauté the garlic until light brown, then add the chicken.
Stir-fry the ground chicken, breaking up any lumps to form small pieces. Continue to stir-fry until the chicken is fully cooked. Dish out and set aside.
Carefully peel off the lettuce leaves from the iceberg lettuce head, taking care not to break them. Scoop a generous spoonful of chicken and place it in the center of a lettuce leaf.
Wrap it up and dip it into the hoisin-ponzu sauce or sweet chili sauce before eating. Alternatively, you can drizzle the sauce on top of the chicken before wrapping.

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