Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps

I have spent a lot of time trying to recreate PF Changs lettuce wraps, one of my all time favourite dishes! I’ve come across a lot of different variants in recipes and I’ve combined these to create my own. This is a great healthy dinner with no carbs! Although the next night we had no lettuce and we had the leftovers with rice and it was still delicious.

I have only ever found ground chicken breast in Waitrose in the UK so I use my mincer and four chicken breasts. If you don’t have this you can substitute 500g of turkey mince.

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp olive oil, or use Frylight as an alternative to oil
  • 4 chicken breasts ground into mince (or 500g turkey mince)
  • 2 cloves of minced garlic
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 1/4 cup hoisin cauce
  • 2 tbsp reduced salt soy sauce (plus extra if you fancy on top)
  • 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp ginger, grated
  • 1 tsp Sriracha
  • 1 can of water chestnuts, thinly sliced
  • 2 spring onions, finely sliced
  • salt
  • Iceberg or gem lettuce

Method

  1. Heat a wok with the oil over a medium heat and cook your ground chicken. Cook until this is browned, keep breaking the chicken up as it cooks so it’s in small pieces.
  2. Add in the garlic, hoisin sauce, onion, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, ginger and Sriracha until your onions are cooked (about 1-2 minutes). Then add the chestnuts and green onions, cook for a further 1-2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
  3. Carefully peel your lettuce to form little tacos and spoon your chicken mixture over this.

 

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