Family Dinner Ideas with Real Restaurant Recipes: PF Chang’s Lettuce Wraps Recipe

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PF Chang’s Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients: Iceberg lettuce leaves, 8 Shitake mushrooms, 2 teaspoons water, 1 teaspoon soy sauce, 1 teaspoon corn starch, 2 teaspoons cooking sherry, salt, pepper, 1 ½ pound boneless chicken breasts (chopped), 5 tablespoons vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon ginger, 2 cloves minced garlic, 2 chopped green onions, 8 oz can bamboo shoots, 8 oz can water chestnuts, 2 small dried chilies, 1 package Chinese rice noodles

Ingredients for sauce: 2 tablespoons oyster sauce, 1 ½ tablespoons water, 1 tablespoon cooking sherry, 1 tablespoon hoi sin sauce, 2 teaspoons corn starch, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon sesame oil

1. Pour boiling water over dried mushrooms and soak for 30 minutes before draining.
2. Combine all sauce ingredients to create sauce
3. Mix together chicken, salt, pepper, water, sherry, soy sauce, corn starch until chicken is coated.
4. Heat in large skillet over medium/high heat and add 3 tablespoons of oil and fry for three minutes. Remove Chicken.
5. Add 2 more tablespoons of oil. Add ginger, garlic, green onions, and chilies and fry for 60 seconds. Do Not Overcook. Add the mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and water chestnuts and fry for 2 minutes.
6. Return chicken to skillet and combine all ingredients. Add rice noodles (broken into pieces) into mixture.
7. Add the chicken and sauce mixture to your lettuce wraps! (You may secure with a toothpick if necessary)

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