Thursday, October 4, 2012

P.F. Chang’s Lettuce Wraps

Ingredients
3 tbsp. oil
2 c. meat substitute (“chicken” strips or soy crumbles)
1 c, water chestnuts
2/3 c. mushrooms
3 tbsp. chopped onions
1 tsp. minced garlic
4 -5 leaves lettuce

Special Sauce
1/4 c.sugar
1/2 c. water
2 tbsp. soy sauce
2 tbsp. rice wine vinegar
2 tbsp. ketchup
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1/8 tsp. sesame oil
1 tbsp. hot mustard
2 tsp. water
1 -2 tsp. garlic and red chile paste

Stirfry Sauce
2 tbsp. soy sauce
2 tbsp. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. rice wine vinegar

Directions
Make the special sauce by dissolving the sugar in water in a small bowl. Add soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, ketchup, lemon juice and sesame oil. Mix well and refrigerate this sauce until you're ready to serve. Combine the hot water with the hot mustard and set this aside as well. Eventually add your desired measurement of mustard and garlic chili sauce to the special sauce mixture to pour over the wraps.

Bring oil to high heat in a wok or large frying pan. Saute meat substitute until slightly browned. Remove from the pan and cool. Keep oil in the pan, keep hot.

As it cools, mince water chestnuts and mushrooms to about the size of small peas. Prepare the stir fry sauce by mixing the soy sauce, brown sugar, and rice vinegar together in a small bowl. When the meat substitute is cool, mince it as the mushrooms and water chestnuts are.

With the pan still on high heat, add another tablespoon of vegetable oil. Add meat substitute, garlic, onions, water chestnuts and mushrooms to the pan.

Add the stir fry sauce to the pan and saute the mixture for a couple minutes then serve it in the lettuce"cups". Top with"Special Sauce".

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