Why Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps

With an early start to planning dinner one day, I decided that I would give these wraps a try. The original recipe was created for a slow cooker, but most days I’m not that on top of my game, and I’m realizing at 4:00 that I never planned anything for dinner.

So my own little “stove-top” Asian chicken lettuce wrap recipe, was created.

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I rarely cook with ground chicken, so when I saw it in the cast iron, it felt a little odd. I’m used to seeing dark ground beef sautéing away. So the white-meat “look,” took a few minutes to get used to, but quickly stole my heart when the dish was complete. I also use ground chicken in this easy chicken meatloaf recipe!

Ingredients for this Recipe

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What you’ll need for this dish:

2 pounds ground chicken

3 Tablespoons minced garlic

1 red bell pepper cored and finely chopped

½ cup finely chopped yellow onion

½ cup hoisin sauce

2 Tablespoons soy sauce

salt and pepper to taste

1 8-ounce can sliced water chestnuts drained and rinsed

1-½ cups cooked white rice (or try this wild rice recipe!)

3 green onions sliced

1-½ teaspoons sesame oil

1 package butter lettuce

The ingredients are similar to my Asian sloppy joe recipe if you want to make those later too.

One-Pot Dish

I literally ate it RIGHT out of the pan, when it was complete. My husband was running late for dinner, and I wasn’t waiting. (It’s ok… we made that agreement early on in our marriage. Me + Hangry = Not something he wants to come home to.)

I decided to use butter lettuce from the store, and I’m SUPER happy with that decision. I usually buy “leaf” lettuce for my salads but decided to give the butter lettuce a try, and so glad that I did. It was perfect for small little servings, and has a natural curve to it, locking the Asian chicken inside a lot better than leaf lettuce.

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