Recipe courtesy of Daniel Green

Chicken Lettuce Wraps

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 6 to 8 servings
  • Total: 35 min
  • Prep: 15 min
  • Cook: 20 min
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Ingredients

6 large dried Chinese mushrooms

Drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil

1/2 large onion, peeled and finely chopped

2 pounds lean ground chicken

3 tablespoons mirin or white wine

1 tablespoon sesame oil

1 tablespoon sesame seeds

1 tablespoon oyster sauce

1 tablespoon light soy sauce

One 8-ounce can water chestnuts, chopped

1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed

6 spring onions (scallions), chopped

2 to 3 tablespoons plum sauce

2 to 3 heads radicchio, leaves separated

Directions

  1. Soak the Chinese mushrooms in hot water until soft, about 5 minutes. Then finely chop. 
  2. Heat the olive oil in a large nonstick pan and cook the onion for a few minutes. Add the mushrooms and cook for another 2 minutes. Add the ground chicken and cook for 4 to 6 minutes, mixing the meat with the other ingredients as it cooks, so it breaks up into little pieces. Add the mirin or wine followed by the sesame oil, sesame seeds, oyster sauce, soy sauce, water chestnuts and garlic. Cook for a few minutes and let the mixture caramelize. Add the spring onions and remove from the heat. Spread a bit of plum sauce on the inside of each radicchio leaf. Then top with a spoonful of the chicken mixture. A viewer or guest of the show, who may not be a professional cook, provided this recipe. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe and therefore, we cannot make representation as to the results.

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jennifer g.

I've made this 3 times now, and followed other reviewers' advice to add more of the flavorings. Still, I find it somewhat average in flavor intensity. I like the flavor, just need more of it. Even the plum sauce seems sort of meh. I've tried the mixture over rice instead of in lettuce, too, which i like more. The lettuce (i've tried butter and iceberg) is actually a little distracting (which surprises me). I suggest less meat, double the sauces (even the sesame maybe), and a drizzle of Asian "sweet chili sauce" over it once it's on the plate. FYI, I like cooking chicken thighs or breasts, then once cool, i chop them to my preferred size/texture. I think ground chicken is harder to find and i like the chicken chunkier.

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