***We eat this as a salad instead of Lettuce Wraps because it’s much easier to prepare and eat. Instead of making the lettuce cups, chop the lettuce up for the salad. Spoon the chicken mixture over the top and then pour the special sauces on. Top with the maifun.
- 1 cup fried maifun (rice sticks)
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 cup water chestnuts
- 2/3 cup straw mushrooms
- 3 tablespoons chopped green onions
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 4-5 leaves iceberg lettuce
Special Sauces (for spooning over your lettuce wraps)
Sauce #1
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/8 teaspoon sesame oil
Sauce #2
- 1 tablespoon Chinese hot mustard
- 2 teaspoons water
- 1-2 teaspoon garlic and red chili paste
Stir Fry Sauce
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar
Directions
1. Make the special sauce by dissolving the sugar in water in a small bowl.
2. Add soy sauce, rice vinegar, ketchup, lemon juice and sesame oil.
3. Mix well and refrigerate this sauce until you're ready to serve.
4. In a separate dish, combine the hot water with the hot mustard for the 2nd special sauce and set this aside as well. (You will eventually add your desired measurement of mustard and garlic chili sauce to the special sauce mixture to pour over the wraps. )
5. Bring oil to high heat in a wok or large frying pan.
6. Sauté chicken breasts for 4 to 5 minutes per side or done.
7. Remove chicken from the pan and cool.
8. Keep oil in the pan, keep hot.
9. As chicken cools mince water chestnuts and mushrooms to about the size of small peas.
10. Prepare the stir fry sauce by mixing the soy sauce, brown sugar, and rice vinegar together in a small bowl.
11. When chicken is cool, chop it so that no piece is bigger than a dime.
12. With the pan still on high heat, add another Tbsp of vegetable oil.
13. Add chicken, garlic, onions, water chestnuts and mushrooms to the pan.
14. Add the stir fry sauce to the pan and sauté the mixture for a couple minutes.
15. Serve onto a dish lined with a bed of fried rice noodles (maifun).
16. Serve chicken with a side of lettuce cups. Make these cups by slicing the top off a head of iceberg lettuce right through the middle of the head. Pull your lettuce cups off the outside of this slice.
17. Make the 2nd Special Sauce at the table by adding your desired number of teaspoons of hot mustard and chili sauce to the sauce started in step 4: 1 tsp each of hot mustard and chili sauce for mild, 2 tsp each for medium and 3 tsp each for hot. Stir well.
18. Assemble lettuce wraps by spooning filling into a lettuce cup, adding special sauces over the top and then folding it up like a taco.
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