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Stir Fried Chicken Wrapped with Iceberg Lettuce1

Here comes a two thumbs up recipe. I didn’t quite know what to expect for this dish, because I just found the recipe in a book I bought about a month ago. What is more, I didn’t have the right amount of ingredients as it said, so I had to change a lot. Lucky I have a good imagination. I guessed what I could add more of by looking at its colour.

When I had the first bite of the chicken wrapped with iceberg lettuce, it was a full of surprise. It was really delicious. Of course, the fact that we were so hungry helped us appreciate the food more, so anything could have been a two thumbs up food to us, yet there was something special about it.

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It tasted slightly salty yet the occasional walnuts added a savory taste and crunchy texture. I added too much chicken breast compared to the other ingredients, so the rare shrimp was a nice surprise too. (By now you know how much I love shrimps, prawns, and that kind of food, right?) Michael complained a bit about the iceberg lettuce, because it was too hard to fold compared to other kinds of lettuce, but he admitted that it gave a nice crispy and fresh texture.

Ingredients for 3 people

(Prep time - 20 minutes, Cooking time - 10 minutes)

Chicken breast - 800g
Shelled shrimps - 100g
2 green chilies (supposedly not spicy)
2 red chilies
1/2 a medium size onion
Iceberg lettuce
Shelled walnuts - 2 tbsp
Some olive oil

Sauce (mix these well in a bowl)

Soy sauce - 3 tbsp
Refined rice wine - 4 tbsp
Oyster sauce - 1 tbsp
Grated apple - 5 tbsp (one medium apple gives about 6 tbsp)
Minced garlic - 1½ tbsp
Ginger powder - 1 tsp
Potato starch powder - 1 tbsp

Prep

Stir Fried Chicken Wrapped with Iceberg Lettuce ingredients

Cut the onion into small cubes.
Take the seed out from the green and red chilies, thin slice them diagonally.
Rinse the chicken and shrimps in cold water, cut the chicken into small to medium cubes.
Separate the iceberg lettuce, rinse the leaves in cold water, and cut them into a size easy to use as a wrap.
Put the chicken and shrimps in a bowl, add the sauce and marinade it for 15 minutes.

Cooking

Stir Fried Chicken Wrapped with Iceberg Lettuce cooking

Pre heat the wok, and add some oil.
Add the marinade meat and stir it well until 90% of it cooks.
Add the chilies, onion and walnuts stir them well.
When it is cooked, serve a spoonful of the meat and vegetables on a lettuce leaf.
Wrap it and dig in. (it is hard to fold if you put in too much meat.)
Enjoy the surprise.

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