Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps
"This dish, popularized by chain restaurants like P.F. Chang’s and the Cheesecake Factory, is based on a Cantonese dish called sung choy bao. Most recipes for this dish suffer from a similar fate—stringy, tasteless meat drowned in a bland sauce. To remedy this, we started with flavorful chicken… read more..."
INGREDIENTS
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Ingredients
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Chicken
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1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
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2 teaspoons Chinese rice cooking wine or dry sherry
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2 teaspoons soy sauce
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2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil
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2 teaspoons cornstarch
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Sauce
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3 tablespoons oyster sauce
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1 tablespoon Chinese rice cooking wine or dry sherry
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2 teaspoons soy sauce
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2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil
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1/2 teaspoon sugar
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1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
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Stir-Fry
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2 tablespoons vegetable oil
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2 celery ribs, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
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6 ounces shiitake mushrooms, stemmed and sliced thin
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1/2 cup water chestnuts, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
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2 scallions, white parts minced, green parts sliced thin
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2 garlic cloves, minced
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1 head Bibb lettuce (8 ounces), washed and dried, leaves separated and left whole
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Hoisin sauce
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