ASIAN CHICKEN LETTUCE WRAPS

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This is actually a DOUBLE DUTY Recipe. Not only is this recipe for Asian ground chicken amazing in lettuce warps but I also use it to make chop chop salads, topping it over a cabbage mix and adding almonds, mandarin oranges, craisins and crunchy wonton strips. Doubling the recipe means you have two meals for your family that week and possibly even leftovers, yay! I first fell in love with these flavors at a local restaurant called Hollihans. There, you could actually get the lettuce wraps or the chop chop salad and I loved both. Imagine how happy I am to be able to have BOTH these flavors at home. so, so good!! Especially since that restaurant closed down. Boo Hoo, it was one of my favs! :-(

 Here is my favorite store blend to put the ground chicken on for a chop chop. All you have to add are the mandarin oranges if you like them. There is enough juice from the chicken recipe that I do not even use the dressing. But you can use the one it comes with or... 

... I also Like this Paul Newman Lite Sesame Ginger

The restaurant Chop Chop that got me hooked

ASIAN CHICKEN LETTUCE WRAPS (& Chop Chop)

1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup ketchup
1 TBS rice wine vinegar
4 teaspoons Asian sesame oil
3 TBS brown sugar
1 TBS olive oil
1/2 cup minced sweet onion
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 pound ground chicken
1 teaspoons red pepper flakes or 1/2 tsp. black pepper
1/2 cup cocktail peanuts (Optional)

Romaine Lettuce leaves or

Chop Chop Mix

 In a small bowl or mixing cup combine soy sauce, ketchup, vinegar, sesame oil and brown sugar, mix well. Set aside.  In a large pot heat the oil over medium high heat. Add in the onions and garlic and saute for 3 minutes, stirring often.  Add in the ground chicken saute until chicken is only partially pink about 3-4 minutes.  Pour in the sauce mixture in and stir well. Add in the red pepper flakes or black pepper.  Add in the peanuts if using . Stir until the nuts are coated with the sauce and incorporated.  Serve with the lettuce and wrap away! OR serve over the salad.

 

Before I put the almonds and Ground Chicken Mixture on top.

Have Fun in the Kitchen!!

xoxo

"Homemade meals—especially mommy meals—are life's most pleasant fuel."

~Terri Guillemets