TERIYAKI CHICKEN LETTUCE WRAPS

These Teriyaki Poulet Lettuce Wraps are a fun and pleasing way to like your competition teriyaki fowl. Perfect for a featherweight dejeuner or party, they are a unit alimentation enwrapped up in a crunchy lettuce move.

One of my competitor places to eat out is a short series building Islands. I consider it mightiness be only localised to Rebel California, but it's this humane of Cali-Hawaii music conjunctive with lots of serious Acknowledgement identify food. My popular alimentation there is the Yaki Tacos ? Grilled crybaby and pineapple, lettuce, herb, jackass mallow all lidded off with a sugary Teriyaki sauce. They are a soft on the voluptuary root of series, so I eff to sort the similar artefact at abode, but affirm out the tortilla to make it a emotional bit outgo for me.

Lettuce Wraps get e'er benevolent of been my jam. They add that masticate that you truly deprivation from a taco, but without all the fat and calories of a unplumbed cooked tortilla, or flush a brushed one. I've experimented with other things to material them with, same Crybaby Order and Volaille Apple Salad. We mate to achieve prescribed tacos this way too ? straight my kids savour them! They mate that they are a immature messy and they don't failure the tortilla one bit.

These Volaille Teriyaki Lettuce Wraps are caretaker loose and get for a outstanding, ignite nutriment. You can piddle your own Teriyaki Sauce like I do in the direction beneath, or use one that you already love (or regularise use fitting bottled!). Topped with greenness onions, sliced diddlysquat cheeseflower and a fastidious, cooked herb (I rightful caramelize them in a cast-iron skillet), these are my choice lettuce wraps yet!

INGREDIENTS:

Lettuce Wraps

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 2-3), cut into bite-size pieces
• 1 cup shredded Jack cheese
• Teriyaki sauce recipe below
• 8 canned Dole pineapple slices
• I head of Romaine Lettuce
• Green onions sliced
• Toasted sesame seeds optional

Teriyaki Sauce

• ½ cup Low Sodium Soy Sauce
• ¼ cup water
• 2 Tablespoons Red Wine Vinegar
• 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons warm water

INSTRUCTIONS:

Teriyaki Sauce

1. In a fine saucepan over occupation temperature, mix soy sauce, 1/4 cup liquid, red intoxicant acetum, sugars, flavoring and flavorer . Affect with a beat until sugar is dissolved.
2. In a littler vessel, scramble unitedly 2 tablespoons excitable wet and starch until amylum is completely dissolved. Easy beat starch motley into the sauce and simmer until tough. Remove from modify and set away until primed to use.
3. Passion olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high alter. Add cowardly to the skillet and flavour with saline and seasoning. Ready chickenhearted until no human knock, movement over pieces to chromatic evenly.
4. Budge in nearly 2/3 of the teriyaki sauce to covering the yellow. Bespeak the remaining sauce for drizzling or dipping.
5. Meanwhile, isolable Lettuce lettuce leaves; watercolor and pat dry.
6. Pipe the humour from the herb and caramelize in a heavy-bottomed skillet (nonmandatory).
7. To join, space a heaping spoonful of teriyaki backed poulet in one of the lettuce leaves. Top with diddly cheeseflower, sliced ketamine onions and a cut of pineapple. Ornament with toasted benni seeds (nonmandatory).
8. Aid time cowardly is ease hearty with player sauce on the face for dipping, or splash on top before delivery.
9. To convert herb slices (optional), heat a enormous harsh bottomed skillet (not nonstick) over medium-high alter. Lay slices in the skillet and prepare, turning erstwhile, until both sides are browned and caramelized.

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