Recipe of the week: Chicken Lettuce Cups

Make these Lettuce cups with steamed rice for a delicious Chinese inspired dinner!

Adapted from Guy Fieri's Chicken Lettuce Cups

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoon oil
• 2 small carrots, diced
• 1 celery rib, diced
• 10 snap peas, diced
• 1 cup diced red onion
• 1 cup mung beans, cut in 1/2
• 1 lb ground chicken
  
• 6 ounces Apricot Sesame Sambal Szechwan Sauce, recipe follows
• 6 fried wonton skins
• 10 iceberg lettuce leaves
• 1/4 cup of diced green onions
• 4 tablespoons crushed, unsalted peanuts
• Black sesame seeds, for garnish

Directions

In a medium saute pan over high heat, add oil. Add vegetables to the pan and cook for a few minutes. Add chicken, saute until cooked. Deglaze with sambal sauce for 30 seconds.

Add pan fried wonton to lettuce cup, pour chicken mix into cup, top with green onions and peanuts. Garnish lettuce cups with black sesame seeds.

Apricot Sesame Sambal Sauce:

• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons minced garlic
• 3 tablespoons minced ginger
• 3 tablespoons sambal hot sauce
• 3 tablespoons apricot preserves
• 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
• 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
• 1 teaspoon minced cilantro
• 2 teaspoons sesame seeds
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil

Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Shake before serving.