
Chicken Lettuce Cups
Ingredients (16)
- 1 head iceberg lettuce
- 4 ounces vegetable oil
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 8 cloves garlic, finely minced
- 1 teaspoon finely grated ginger
- 4 ounces zucchini, finely diced
- ⅓ cup minced shiitake mushrooms
- 4 ounces bamboo shoots, finely diced
- 4 ounces water chestnuts, finely diced
- ½ cup hoisin sauce, divided
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 scallions, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- kosher salt
- black pepper
Directions
- Remove the outer leaves of the lettuce and then peel off about 12 leaves. Trim them so they are round and fit in the palm of your hand. Place in a container or bag in the refrigerator.
- Heat half the oil in a heavy bottomed saucepan over medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook and stir, breaking into small pieces, until chicken is cooked through and slightly brown, about 5 minutes. Depending on the fat content of the chicken, you may need to add more oil as it cooks. Transfer chicken to a bowl.
- Add garlic and ginger to the same saucepan; cook and stir until garlic is fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Add zucchini, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots to garlic-ginger; cook for 1 minute.
- Pour 2 tablespoons hoisin, soy sauce, and vinegar over vegetable mixture; stir to combine and cook for 1 minute. Remove saucepan from heat and mix vegetable mixture with cooked chicken.
- Stir scallions and sesame oil into vegetable-chicken mixture. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
- Serve vegetable-chicken mixture in a bowl with lettuce and hoisin sauce on the side.
- To assemble, spoon about 2 tablespoons vegetable-chicken mixture into a lettuce cup. Drizzle about ½ teaspoon hoisin over chicken and wrap it up in taco style.
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