Earlier this month I traveled to San Luis Obispo with the family to explore new restaurants and wineries. I love trying new restaurants to get inspirations for quick and easy recipes I can share on Just One Cookbook. One of the dinners we had was at Novo Restaurant & Lounge in downtown SLO. Mr. JOC will share a review of the restaurant at a future date, but I want to talk about one of the appetizers we had, Thai Shrimp Lettuce Wraps.
Watch How to Make Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Marinated cubed chicken with mint leaves, cilantro, peanuts, daikon and carrot strips on crisp butter lettuce leaf. Drizzle with Thai chili sauce! I’ve had duck and squab lettuce wraps many times when dining in Chinese restaurants. I always loved the fragrant sautéed mixture with crispy fried noodle served in the lettuce cup. As you bite in the lettuce cup, you taste refreshing cool iceberg lettuce as it blends perfectly with the warm flavorful moist meat mixture. At Novo, their interpretation of the lettuce wrap was quite different. Their lettuce wraps were served with sides of julienned carrots and daikon, with fresh mint and cilantro on butter lettuce. You could order it with different choices of protein including tofu, steak, or prawns and top your wraps with Thai chili sauce or fish sauce. It was so simple yet the combination of the herbs and vegetables was so refreshing and flavorful, and the spicy Thai chili sauce just makes you want to eat more. After eating it, I couldn’t wait to make it and share it with you. It’s easy, simple, and delicious, and it’s a perfect appetizer to serve it at my next party.
I realized I could easily make the same dish at home very quickly with the ingredients I had in the fridge. For my protein, I used boneless chicken breast instead since it’s my children’s favorite meat.
Tyson®Fresh Chicken for Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Speaking of chicken, recently I’ve tried Tyson®Fresh Chicken when preparing meals for my family. I trust Tyson Fresh Chicken products because they have 75 years of history producing chicken raised by family farmers. The meats are easy to work with because they are hand trimmed and save you time and effort when preparing your dish. If you want healthy chicken choices for your family, Tyson Fresh Chicken is the next best thing to being fresh off the farm. Because it is all natural* with no added hormones or steroids**, and arrives at your store fresh, delivered within days from leaving the farm.
I marinated the chicken breasts for this recipe and while waiting for the flavors to be absorbed, I cut up all the veggies to get ready for my lettuce wraps. Trust me, once you had these lettuce wraps, you can’t resist eating just one.
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