P.F. Chang's Chicken Lettuce Wraps

If you've been to P.F. Chang's, then you probably have heard about or fallen in love with their lettuce wraps. I tried the following recipe, skeptical that it would actually turn out tasting the same as in the restaurant. But, it was great! I'm also not a fan of mushrooms. But, in this dish you can't taste them and they add to the texture - so don't skip out on them if you normally don't eat them.



Ingredients:
3 tbs vegetable oil
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 cup water chestnuts, chopped
2/3 cup fresh mushrooms, chopped
3 Tbs onion, chopped
1 tsp garlic, minced
head of iceberg lettuce

Special Sauce
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
2 Tbs soy sauce
2 Tbs rice wine vinegar
2 Tbs ketchup
1 Tbs lemon juice
1/8 tsp sesame oil
1 Tbs hot mustard
2 tsp hot water
1-2 tsp garlic and red chili paste

Stir Fry Sauce
2 Tbs soy sauce
2 Tbs brown sugar
1/2 tsp rice wine vinegar

Directions:
1. Make 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. Eventually add your desired measurement of mustard and garlic chili paste to the special sauce mixture to pour over the wraps.
5. Bring oil to high heat in a wok or large frying pan.
6. Saute chicken breasts until done.
7. Remove chicken from pan and cool.
8. Keep oil in the pan and keep hot.
9. As chicken cools, mince water chestnuts and mushrooms to about the size of small peas.
10. Prepare the stir fry sauce by mixing ingredients in small bowl.
11. When chicken is cool, mince it as the mushrooms and water chestnuts are.
12. With the pan still on high heat, add another tbs of vegetable oil.
13. Add chicken, garlic, onions, water chestnuts and mushrooms to the pan.
14. Add the stir fry sauce and sate the mixture for a couple of minutes then serve it in the lettuce "cups". Top with special sauce.

*Because soy sauce can be very salty, I used low sodium soy sauce.