Not PF Chang's Chicken Lettuce Wraps

About once a week I begin craving PF Chang's Chicken Lettuce wraps. I love them! But it's not always practical to go to Pei Wei or PF Chang's just for the lettuce wraps. But then I found this recipe. These are not the official PF Chang's Chicken Lettuce Wraps but MAN are they good. I got the recipe from two different web sites. The primary website I used was this one and I used the stir fry recipe from this one.


Stir Fry Sauce:
1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch

Chicken Mixture:
1 lb ground chicken
3 tablespoons Stir Fry Oil
1 can water chestnuts
1 package mushrooms- chopped
2-3 green onion- chopped
1large clove garlic- minced

Special Sauce:
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon sesame oil
2 teaspoons water
1-2 teaspoon garlic and red chile paste


DIRECTIONS:

Special Sauce-
Make the special sauce by dissolving the sugar in water in a small bowl. Add soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, hoisin sauce, lemon juice, chili paste and sesame oil. Mix well and refrigerate this sauce until you're ready to serve.

Chicken Mixture:

Chop and mince all ingredients prior to cooking chicken.
Heat a large frying pan or wok on high heat. Add wok oil. Add ground chicken and half the stir fry sauce. Brown ground chicken, breaking up chicken into small pieces as it cooks.
Add water chestnuts, mushrooms, green onion, garlic and remaining stir fry sauce.

Serve in lettuce cups (ice berg, bibb or boston work best) and top with "special sauce".