Barbecued Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps.
You can have Barbecued Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Barbecued Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps
- Prepare 2 tablespoons of light colored oil, such as vegetable oil or peanut oil.
- It's 1 pound of chicken meat, finely diced.
- It's 2 cups of shiitake mushrooms, finely diced.
- Prepare of Coarse salt and coarse black pepper.
- You need 3 cloves of garlic, finely diced.
- Prepare 1 inch of ginger root, finely diced.
- Prepare 1 of orange, zested, squeezed.
- You need 1/2 of red bell pepper, finely diced.
- You need 6 of to 8 ounces, water chestnuts, finely diced.
- You need 3 of scallions, chopped.
- You need 3 tablespoons of hoisin, Chinese barbecue sauce, available on Asian foods aisle of market.
- Prepare 1/2 of large head iceberg lettuce, core removed, head quartered.
Barbecued Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps instructions
- Preheat a large skillet or wok to high. Add oil to hot pan. Add chicken to the pan and sear meat by stir frying a minute or two. Add mushrooms and cook another minute or two. Add salt and pepper to season, then garlic and ginger. Cook a minute more. Grate zest into pan, add bell pepper bits, chopped water chestnuts and scallions. Cook another minute, continuing to stir fry mixture. Add hoisin Chinese barbecue sauce and toss to coat the mixture evenly..
- Transfer the hot chopped barbecued chicken to serving platter and pile the quartered wedges of crisp iceberg lettuce along side..
- To eat, pile spoonfuls into lettuce leaves, wrapping lettuce around fillings and squeeze an orange wedge over. Optional: add a few drops of fresh orange juice to spoonful of mixture.
