Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Lettuce Wrap

This is my new favorite thing to make. It's fast and it's pretty good. It's inspired by P.F. Chang's Lettuce wrap, which I found online, here . Take out the meat, add the meat substitute and some extra veggies and viola, you got yummy vegetarian lettuce wrap.

Lettuce Wrap
Main ingredient:
Filling:
2 Tablespoons of vegetable oil
1 Teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 Cup chopped water chestnuts
3 Tablespoon chopped onions
2/3 cup chopped mushrooms
2/3 cup of ground vegetarian/vegan beef
2/3 cup of chopped wheat glutten
1 stalk chopped green onions
A few iceberg lettuce leaves
Some bean sprouts
Some cucumber (cut into matchsticks)

Special Sauce:
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon hot mustard
2 teaspoons water
1-2 teaspoon garlic red chili paste

Stir-fry Sauce:
2 Tablespoons soy sauce
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon rice wine vinegar

Directions:
Making the Special Sauce: Dissolve the sugar in 1/2 cup of water, then add the soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, ketchup, lemon juice, and sesame oil. Stir well. Add hot mustard and chili paste and mix well. Refrigerate until ready to use.

Making the Stir fry Sauce: Mix the soy sauce and brown sugar together in a small bowl and add then rice wine vinegar.

Making the filling:
1) Heat up the wok using high heat, when hot, add the garlic, stir it around and then add the onion follow by the mushroom.
2) When onion is slightly translucent, add everything else except for the green onion, bean sprouts, and cucumbers. Stir-fry for a few minutes.
3) Add 1/2 to all of the stir-fry sauce depending on preference.
4) Add the green onions.

How to eat it:
First, find a piece of sizable lettuce leave, add the fillings and topped with some bean sprouts and some cucumber. Pour on some of the special sauce. Wrap it up! Eat it up! Chomp chomp! mmm...yummy!

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