chicken lettuce wraps

This is a super easy meal that takes barely anytime at all, and the kids love it (sans the lettuce for them). I don't make these as often as I should, they are so yummy! I use ground chicken, but you can also use ground pork (maybe turkey, I am just not a fan..)

Chicken Lettuce Wraps

1 package of ground chicken

1 tbsp vegetable oil

2 minced garlic cloves

1 minced onion

3 minced celery stalks

1 minced carrot

1/4 cup oyster sauce

1 head of lettuce

Serve with Hoisin sauce, chopped green onions (and crushed peanuts if you like).

First things first, cut the stem off your head lettuce, enough so that you can pull the leaves away, trying to keep the leaves as big as possible, this gets tricky when you get to the inside leaves, but no one is judging you and your lettuce leafing skills. So long as you can put some chicken inside, its big enough. Put aside.

On medium heat, heat the oil, garlic and onion in a sauce pan. Let cook until garlic is fragrant and onion is slightly soft. Add the ground chicken, cook until no longer raw, then add the celery and carrot, mix, then add the oyster sauce. Cook for another 5-10 minutes, until everything is done to your liking.

I usually put my lettuce leaves, chicken, green onions (peanuts) and hoisin sauce on the table in little platters and bowls, and let everyone help themselves...creating their own little pocket wraps. I serve rice along with because the kids really enjoy it, and when they aren't having a 'wrap' it gives them something to eat with their chicken.

Bake up some spring rolls to enjoy with your wrap to make it an Asian inspired night! Clean up is fast and easy!

K