Barbecued Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps

This is a fabulous chicken dish that you will love! It is Rachel Ray's recipe - You'll see some of her recipes on here this week. I copied down three of her recipes as they looked so delicious! - It is pretty simple and easy to make. It is a lot like Korean dish - Bulgogi. The lettuce wrap is how they eat Bulgogi as well. Rachel Ray calls for iceburg but my family prefers romain lettuce so that's what we used. It was also my first time using hoisin sauce in a recipe and it was so wonderful.

Barbecued Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Ingredients:

• 2 cups, 4 handfuls, fresh shiitake mushrooms
• 1 1/3 to 1 1/2 pounds thin cut chicken breast or chicken tenders
• 2 tablespoons light colored oil, such as vegetable oil or peanut oil
• Coarse salt and coarse black pepper
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 inch ginger root, finely chopped or grated, optional
• 1 orange, zested
• 1/2 red bell pepper, diced small
• 1 small tin, 6 to 8 ounces, sliced water chestnuts, drained and chopped
• 3 scallions, chopped (I didn't use any of these)
  
• 3 tablespoons hoisin, Chinese barbecue sauce (available on Asian foods aisle of market)
• 1/2 large head iceberg lettuce, core removed, head quartered (or romain)
  
• Wedges of navel orange -- platter garnish

Direction:
Remove tough stems from mushrooms and brush with damp towel to clean, Slice mushrooms. Chop chicken into small pieces.
Preheat a large skillet or wok to high.
Add oil to hot pan. Add chicken to the pan and sear meat by stir frying a minute or 2. Add mushrooms and cook another minute or two. Add salt and pepper to season, then garlic and ginger. Cook a minute more. Grate zest into pan, add bell pepper bits, chopped water chestnuts and scallions. Cook another minute, continuing to stir fry mixture. Add hoisin Chinese barbecue sauce and toss to coat the mixture evenly. Transfer the hot chopped barbecued chicken to serving platter and pile the quartered wedges of crisp iceberg lettuce (or romain) along side. Add wedged oranges to platter to garnish. To eat, pile spoonfuls into lettuce leaves, wrapping lettuce around fillings and squeeze an orange wedge over.