I made something new for dinner...(recipe)

[phyncke]

So I am really tired of what I make for dinner so I made something new to eat. I love lettuce wraps at my chinese restaurant so I made my own very simple approximation of them at home. I had found a nice plum sauce in the international section of my grocery so that got me thinking about it. I used the following -

2 scallions
1/2 large red pepper
ground chicken (not sure how much - 3/4 of a pound?)
dried parsley
dried oregano
vegetable oil
splash of soy sauce
plum sauce
head of lettuce

Here is what I did -

-diced up red pepper and scallions into really small pieces - really small
-coat large fry pan with vegetable oil
-saute scallions and red pepper in the oil until they are very lightly cooked
-toss in the meat over the veggies and brown the meat - breaking it up into small pieces as you cook it.
-salt and pepper to taste
-sprinkle dried parsley and dried oregano onto the mixture in the pan - I used a lot - do this to your taste.
-at the end - after the meat is cooked throw in a dash of soy sauce for flavor
-turn burner off and you are done.

Other -
-as your meat is cooking - plate your lettuce leaves - you want nice whole lettuce leaves - I use red leaf lettuce for this and it works really well. You want a lettuce that can be used as a cup for the meat. Romaine will not work very well but other kinds of lettuce will work. This is up to you.
-put some plum sauce into a small sauce dish - little bowl. You will need a spoon to dribble the plum sauce onto your lettuce leaves after you construct each lettuce leaf (ie put the meat on the lettuce).
-on your plate you will want - three - four lettuce leaves - a cup with the plum sauce - and your pile of cooked meat mixture and a spoon - then you have everything to construct your lettuce leaves!

Note - you don't have to do scallions and red pepper - you can do other veggies in the mixture - feel free to be creative - you could do celery - water chestnuts - other stuff. Whatever you like.

Bon appetit!


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Comments

[talullahred.livejournal.com]

That sounds really good. I don't think I can find the plum sauce, but I'll try it without it. Maybe improvise with plum jam?

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

That could be good. You could add a little vinegar to the plum jam to make it into a sauce. That is what the sauce had in it. Vinegar and plum stuff. :)

[talullahred.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a pretty interesting flavour - the vinegar with the sweetness of the plum. I definitely will try that, once the birthday planning madness if over. Thanks!

[erviniae.livejournal.com]

Yum! I've had them with water chestnuts! Love it !

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

I am going to get some water chestnuts for sure next time. They use those at my chinese restaurant. It needed a little crunch.

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

Sounds really good!

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

It came out great and I think it is really flexible. You can add whatever you want. :)