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Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Ingredients:

For the Special Sauce:
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar (we used rice vinegar, not sure if it’s the same)
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon hot mustard
1-2 teaspoons hot chili sauce (we used Sriracha brand)

For the Stir Fry:
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts; cooked
1 can water chestnuts; drained
2/3 cup mushrooms; diced
3 tablespoons green onion; chopped
2-3 cloves garlic; minced
1 head Boston Bibb lettuce

For the Stir Fry Sauce:
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon rice wine vinegar (we used rice vinegar, not sure if it’s the same)

Directions:
In a small bowl, dissolve the sugar in water to make the Special Sauce. Add soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, ketchup, lemon juice, hot mustard, chili sauce, and sesame oil. Mix well and refrigerate until you’re ready to serve.

To make the Stir Fry Sauce, mix soy sauce, brown sugar, and rice vinegar in a small bowl.

Bring 2 tablespoons oil to high heat in a wok or large frying pan. Sauté the chicken breasts for 4 to 5 minutes per side, or until done. Remove chicken from the pan and cool. Keep oil in the pan and keep it hot. As chicken cools mince water chestnuts and mushrooms to about the size of small peas. When chicken is cool cut it into small pieces, about the size of the mushrooms and water chestnuts

With the pan still on high heat, add another tablespoon of oil. Add chicken, garlic, green onion, water chestnuts and mushrooms to the pan. Add the Stir Fry Sauce to the pan and sauté the mixture for a couple minutes then serve it in the lettuce cups. Top with Special Sauce or use it as a dipping sauce.

My review of this was that it was really good, but kind of a lot of work. I think it might be one of those recipes (like the World's Best Lasagna) that seem like they take forever until you get used to making it and can do it all from memory and get it done quickly. I also won't bother with the Special Sauce next time or I might try it without the sugar and the ketchup. It was too sweet for my taste and nothing like the sauce that I'm used to eating with lettuce wraps.