Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps are bursting with flavor from ground chicken with stir fry vegetables in a rich, sweet and spicy sauce. Serve the mixture on butter lettuce or romaine lettuce for an easy to prepare and delicious appetizer, lunch, or dinner.
Similar to P.F. Chang's Chicken Lettuce wraps (but even better in my opinion), these spicy lettuce wraps have a base of ground chicken, mixed with finely diced bell pepper, mushrooms, and water chestnuts. Aromatics are added for flavor and everything is cooked together in one pan for ease.
The sauce itself is super simple, soy sauce, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, and a bit of honey for sweetness.
Make them as spicy or as mild as you would like. The sambal oelek is the only ingredient that adds heat, and it is totally customizable.
These wraps are a hit at parties (and extremely easy to pack up and bring!).
For more recipes using ground chicken, check out Ground Chicken Spaghetti, Orecchiette with Baby Chicken Meatballs, and Greek Chicken Meatballs.
Ingredients
- Oil: Use an oil that can withstand high heat, such as avocado oil.
- Ground chicken: You can use white meat or dark meat, or buy pre ground chicken, which is what I did.
- Onion: Both green onion and yellow onion for different layers of flavor. I like to garnish the wraps with extra green onion tops as well.
- Garlic: This recipe calls for 4 cloves of garlic, but feel free to add more if you like extra garlic flavor.
- Mushrooms: Either cremini or white button mushrooms.
- Water Chestnuts: These can be found either in the asian foods aisle or the
- Bell Pepper: Any color bell pepper will do.
- Fresh ginger: Either minced or grated. I like to freeze ginger ahead of time for recipes like this one.
Lettuce Wrap Sauce
- Soy sauce: You could also use liquid aminos or coconut aminos.
- Sambal oelek: This is based on preference. We like it spicy so we add 1-2 tablespoons, you can use less if you prefer little to no spice.
- Honey: For a bit of sweetness!
- Sesame oil: Sesame oil has a strong flavor, so you only need a bit.
- Rice wine vinegar: This cuts the richly flavored sauce with a bit of acid.
How to make Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Step 1. In a large skillet, heat avocado oil on medium-high heat. Add in ground chicken and begin to break up as it cooks.
Step 2. While chicken is cooking, chop vegetables. After chicken is browned (about 10 minutes), add in garlic, onions, mushrooms, water chestnuts, bell pepper, ginger, and green onions. Cook until onions are translucent, about 5 minutes.
Step 3. In a small bowl, mix together ingredients for the sauce. Adjust the amount of Sambal Oelek you add, depending on how spicy you want the dish to be. Add the combined sauce to the chicken mixture
Step 4. Finish by simmering for 5 minutes. Serve on butter lettuce or romaine
Recipe Tips
- To transport these for serving at a party, you can transfer the mixture to a crockpot set to low.
- Everything cooks up quickly, so I suggest chopping everything while the chicken browns and adding all of the vegetables and aromatics at once.
Storage
Store in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
To reheat leftovers, use a microwave or stovetop.
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Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp. avocado oil
- 1 lb. ground chicken
- 1 small onion diced
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 6 oz. cremini or button mushrooms diced
- 1 8 oz. can of water chestnuts diced
- 1 small bell pepper diced
- 1 inch piece of fresh ginger minced or grated
- 4 green onions sliced
Sauce
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 1-2 tbsp. sambal oelek based on preference
- 1 ½ tbsp. honey
- 1 tbsp. sesame oil
- 1 tbsp. rice wine vinegar
Instructions
- In a large skillet, heat avocado oil on medium-high heat. Add in ground chicken and begin to break up as it cooks.
- While chicken is cooking, chop vegetables. After chicken is browned (about 10 minutes), add in garlic, onions, mushrooms, water chestnuts, bell pepper, ginger, and green onions.
- Cook until onions are translucent, bout 5 minutes.
- In a small bowl, mix together ingredients for the sauce. Adjust the amount of Sambal Oelek you add, depending on how spicy you want the dish to be.
- Add the combined sauce to the chicken mixture and finish by simmering for 5 minutes. Serve on butter lettuce or romaine.
Trinity Gorz
This looks like it could be very Weight Watcher friendly!!!!