Experience the classic flavors of Pf Chang’s famous chicken lettuce wraps right in your kitchen. This easy copycat recipe is a perfect mix of savory and sweet, packed with fresh ingredients and bursting with flavor.
Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Are you looking for a delicious and nutritious meal option? Try this easy recipe for lettuce wraps! Packed with plenty of protein from ground chicken and fresh vegetables like onion, red pepper, garlic, water chestnuts, and butter lettuce, this satisfying and healthy dish is perfect as a main meal or appetizer.
We love to cook and eat Asian dishes. Most Asian recipes have a healthy balance of meat and vegetables and many different layers of flavors and textures. If you like this recipe, try my Szechuan beef, Mongolian chicken, chicken yakisoba, and chicken chow mein.
Ingredients for Chicken Lettuce Wraps
How to Make Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Whisk the hoisin sauce, soy sauce, rice vinegar, ginger, and chili sauce in a medium bowl. Set the bowl aside for a bit.
Heat the sesame oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the chicken and break it up as it browns. Add the minced yellow onion and red bell pepper when the chicken is about halfway browned. Cook for several minutes or until the onions and bell pepper soften. Reduce the heat to low and add the garlic and water chestnuts, cooking for about one minute.
Whisk the sauce you set aside and add it to the skillet with the chicken and veggies. Stir to coat and simmer for a few minutes to heat everything. Spoon several tablespoons of the mixture into the lettuce leaves. Top with the sliced green onion and chopped peanuts. For best results, enjoy promptly.
Recipe Tips
- Ginger paste works just as well as fresh ginger, and once opened, it lasts about one month stored in the fridge.
- Sambal oelek is ground fresh chili paste, which you find in the Asian food section of your local grocery store. It is pretty spicy, but when paired with other ingredients like soy sauce and hoisin sauce, it tames it, and the overall taste is very flavorful and satisfying. Store in the refrigerator for up to two months or freeze in small containers for up to six months.
- Substitute ground beef, ground turkey, or ground pork for the ground chicken.
- Use Butter lettuce, Boston lettuce, or Bibb lettuce, which are essentially almost the same lettuce as they come from the same family. Or try iceberg lettuce or romaine lettuce.
- Other vegetables to add to the chicken mixture while cooking are chopped mushrooms or matchstick carrots,
What to Serve with Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Storage and Reheat
It is best to store the chicken mixture separately from the lettuce leaves. The lettuce leaves do not hold up for that long. Store the chicken mixture in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. Store the lettuce leaves, preferably unwashed, in the crisper vegetable drawer of the fridge. Reheat over low heat on the stovetop or microwave at reduced power.
These flavor-filled delights make for a healthy light supper or the perfect party appetizer. You can make the filling ahead of time. Then reheat and spoon into the lettuce leaves when ready to serve.
Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
Sauce
- ¼ cup hoisin sauce
- 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger or ginger paste
- 1 teaspoon chili sauce or sambal oelek
Chicken Lettuce Wraps
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 1 lb ground chicken
- ½ yellow onion minced
- 1 red pepper finely diced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 8 ounces can water chestnuts drained and finely chopped
- 2 green onions thinly sliced
- ⅓ cup dry roasted peanut coarsely chopped
- 1 head Butter lettuce Bibb lettuce
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, whisk the hoisin sauce, soy sauce, rice vinegar, ginger, and chili sauce together. Set the bowl aside for a bit.
- Heat the sesame oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the chicken and break it up as it browns. When the chicken is about halfway browned, add the minced yellow onion and red bell pepper. Cook for 2-3 minutes or until the onions and bell pepper soften.
- Reduce the heat to low and add the garlic and water chestnuts, cooking for 1 minute while stirring constantly.
- Whisk the sauce that you set aside and then add it to the skillet with the chicken and veggies. Stir to coat and simmer for 1-2 minutes to heat everything through.
- Spoon several tablespoons of the mixture into the lettuce leaves. Top with the sliced green onions and chopped peanuts. For best results, enjoy promptly.
Notes
- Ginger paste works just as well as fresh ginger, and once opened, it lasts about 1 month stored in the fridge.
- Sambal oelek is ground fresh chili paste, which can be found in the Asian food section of your local grocery store. It is quite spicy, but when paired with other ingredients like soy sauce and hoisin sauce, it really tames it, and the overall taste is very flavorful and satisfying. Store for up to two months in the refrigerator or freeze in small containers for up to six months.
- Substitute ground beef, ground turkey, or ground pork for the ground chicken.
- Use Butter lettuce, Boston lettuce, or Bibb lettuce, which are essentially almost the same lettuce as they come from the same family. Or try iceberg lettuce or romaine lettuce.
- Other vegetables to add to the chicken mixture while cooking are chopped mushrooms or matchstick carrots.
Nutrition
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Harry
Healthy, delicious, and easy to make. My wife and I loved them! We are saving the recipe! Thank you!
Beth Pierce
My pleasure, Harry!
Kendra
Chicken lettuce wraps are my go to when ordering any Asian food. I wanted to try making them from home and oh my, they were so yummy! The best wraps I think I have ever had. My little one does not like lettuce so I served him a little scooped over some white rice and he was happy as a lark.
Beth Pierce
That sounds like a great plan!
Jenny Orf
Delicious! Better than any of the Asian restaurants around here. I think I will make them myself from now on. I love all your recipes!
Beth Pierce
Thanks, Jenny! That is so kind of you!
Amber H
This is such a great recipe and quite healthy, too, for someone like me who values health benefits over taste. I really enjoyed this tasty recipe. I could eat this any time of the day!
Layla W
I’m so glad to have found this recipe! My daughter and I loved it. Such a delicious meal and so healthy! Thank you!
Melissa Cushing
I pinned this recipe as it looks incredible and it is only 10Am and I am so hungry now! Delicious and pinning this to make Sunday for myself during the game!