Chicken Cashew Lettuce Wraps
I made chicken cashew lettuce wraps for dinner last night. Well actually, I made chicken cashew and served it over rice. I found the original recipe at shewearsmanyhat.com. You can find the recipe here. I've made chicken lettuce wraps several times, but it wasn't as tasty as this recipe. Plus, I really like cashews. Overall, the recipe is very easy to make. The hardest part is cutting up the chicken into little pieces. However, since I'm "rockin' my 40s" this isn't a problem for me anymore. I still use a fork and a knife so I don't have to actually touch the chicken, but I didn't have to wear latex gloves this time so that's progress. Baby steps friends. Since I often make Korean Beef Bowl, I usually have all these ingredients on hand.
Here's the recipe:
Chicken Cashew Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
For sauce:
2 T. of soy sauce
1 T. of rice vinegar
1 T. of brown sugar
1/4 t. of ground red pepper
1/4 t. of ground ginger
1 t. of sesame seed oil
For Cashew Chicken:
2 chicken breasts diced
8 leaves of iceburg lettuce
3 T. of canola oil
1 c. of diced onion
2 garlic cloves, mined
1 t. of soy sauce
1/4 c. of cashews
salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
For sauce
1. Mix all stir fry sauce ingredients together. Make sure the brown sugar has dissolve and set aside.
For Cashew Chicken
1. Heat 2 T. canola oil in pan over medium heat. Add diced chicken and brown. Remove chicken from oil and dump juices. Add 1 T. of canola oil and heat. Add onions, garlic and 1 t. of soy sauce to pan and brown. When onions and garlic are brown and tender, add sauce, browned chicken and cashews. Saute mixture for a few minutes and remove from heat.
2. Spoon chicken mixture into individual lettuce leaves or serve over rice.
We doubled this recipe for our family. We always like left overs. I think you could make this early if you need to but do not add the cashews. When you reheat it, add the cashew, that way they stay crunchy. You can always modify if you'd like by adding water chesnuts, mushrooms, or other veggies.
Two things:
1) Yes, I am totally ignoring that I haven't blogged in over a year and a half and just picking up where I left off. :)
2) After this awesome meal, one of my favorite dishes was shattered. :(
Sad day. I guess I'll have to go get more! Yay!
