Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Introducing Tasty Tuesday

In order to motivate myself to post more regularly I am going to institute Tasty Tuesday. Every tuesday I will come to you with a new recipe I'm going to try out that night. I love cooking, it truly is a huge passion of mine. I would love to end up a famous chef in a beautiful restaurant (preferably NYC, a girl can dream right?), with my handsome hubby by my side. In case yall didnt know, Stephen grew up working in restaurants and is an AMAZING cook. Like truly fabulous, thus my love weight that I've gained. He also knows how to make dishes look as amazing as they taste, I havent quite perfected that skill yet. Anyways, I digress. So in case you need some culinary inspiration, you know where to turn every Tuesday.

Today, I'm taking Stephen to PF Changs to celebrate starting STE school. I'm going to leave you one of their fabulous recipes, and my personal favorite.


Lettuce Wraps

Ingredients

    • 3 tablespoons oil
    • 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
    • 1 cup water chestnuts
    • 2/3 cup mushrooms
    • 3 tablespoons chopped onions
    • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
    • 4 -5 leaves iceberg lettuce

    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 and red chile paste

    Stir Fry Sauce

    • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
    • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
    • 1/2 teaspoon rice wine vinegar

Directions

  1. Make the special sauce by dissolving the sugar in water in a small bowl.
  2. Add soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, ketchup, lemon juice and sesame oil.
  3. Mix well and refrigerate this sauce until you're ready to serve.
  4. Combine the hot water with the hot mustard and set this aside as well.
  5. Eventually add your desired measurement of mustard and garlic chili sauce to the special sauce mixture to pour over the wraps.
  6. Bring oil to high heat in a wok or large frying pan.
  7. Saute chicken breasts for 4 to 5 minutes per side or done.
  8. Remove chicken from the pan and cool.
  9. Keep oil in the pan, keep hot.
  10. As chicken cools mince water chestnuts and mushrooms to about the size of small peas.
  11. Prepare the stir fry sauce by mixing the soy sauce, brown sugar, and rice vinegar together in a small bowl.
  12. When chicken is cool, mince it as the mushrooms and water chestnuts are.
  13. With the pan still on high heat, add another Tbsp of vegetable oil.
  14. Add chicken, garlic, onions, water chestnuts and mushrooms to the pan.
  15. Add the stir fry sauce to the pan and saute the mixture for a couple minutes then serve it in the lettuce"cups". 
  16. Top with"Special Sauce"
 Enjoy!
 

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