Crystal Wrap Recipe - Cooking Index
These lettuce rolls are much like cabbage rolls, but the lettuce stays cold and crisp against the stir-fried filling.
Sauce | ||
2 tablespoons | 30ml | Hoisin sauce |
2 tablespoons | 30ml | Soy sauce |
1 tablespoon | 15ml | Sherry |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Cornstarch |
1/4 teaspoon | 1.3ml | Freshly-ground white pepper |
Filling | ||
1 tablespoon | 15ml | Canola oil - (to 2) |
6 | Dried shiitake mushrooms - soaked until soft, | |
And chopped | ||
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Minced ginger |
2 | Celery stalks - chopped | |
1 | Carrot - chopped (large) | |
1 | Zucchini or crookneck squash - chopped | |
1/2 cup | 73g / 2.6oz | Chopped bamboo shoots |
1/2 cup | 73g / 2.6oz | Chopped water chestnuts |
2 | Green onions - chopped | |
1/2 cup | 73g / 2.6oz | Chopped peanuts |
1 cup | 237ml | Iceberg lettuce head (large) |
Sauce: Combine all ingredients in a small bowl; set aside.
Filling: Heat oil in work or large deep skillet. Add mushrooms and ginger; cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add celery, carrot and squash; stir-fry 1 minute. Add bamboo shoots and water chestnuts; stir-fry 1 minute more. Add green onions, peanuts and sauce; cook until sauce boils and thickens a bit, about 1 minute.
To serve, place several heaping tablespoons filling inside lettuce leaves; roll and eat with your hands.
This recipe yields 12 to 15 rolls.
Source:
Vegetarian Times, Feb 1995
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