Chef John's Chicken Lettuce Wraps
4.7
Ingredients
- Prep
- 35 min
- Cook
- 15 min
- Total
- 50 min
Instructions
- 1 Combine chicken, water chestnuts, mushrooms, yellow onion, 1/3 cup green onion, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, ginger, and 2 teaspoons brown sugar together in a bowl. Pat mixture down, cover bowl with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until ready to use.
- 2 Whisk chicken stock, vinegar, garlic, ketchup, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, sesame oil, 2 teaspoons brown sugar, pepper flakes, and dry mustard together in a bowl until glaze well-mixed.
- 3 Heat vegetable oil in a heavy nonstick skillet over high heat. Add chicken mixture; cook and stir until chicken no longer looks raw, about 2 minutes. Add 1/2 the glaze mixture; cook and stir until chicken begins to caramelize and brown, 10 to 15 minutes.
- 4 Reduce heat to medium-low. Pour remaining glaze into chicken mixture; cook until heated through and slightly reduced, about 3 minutes. Stir in cilantro, basil, and 1 1/2 tablespoons green onion. Transfer chicken mixture to a bowl; serve with lettuce leaves as wrappers.
By John Mitzewich