Asian Night - Fried Rice

We also made Fried Rice although it wasn't a specific recipe it was just my concoction so I'll try to remember what I did.

Ingredients
3 cups cooked rice (I used minute rice cooked in my Pampered Chef Rice Cooker Plus)
3 chopped carrots
3 eggs
1/2 bag frozen peas
Vegetable oil
Soy sauce to taste

Directions
Cook rice in the microwave. Heat vegetable oil in Stir Fry pan add carrots and peas stir fry for a few minutes till softened or peas thawed, add scrambled eggs and stir fry till egg is cooked.  Add Rice to stir fry pan and add soy sauce to taste.  Toss it all together and cook for another few minutes. Remove from heat and serve.

Critique
Another quick and easy recipe that doesn't take long to make.  I've made it a few times since and I really like it, but you can add whatever vegetables or meat you want to the rice to suit your tastes.

Asian Night - Lettuce Wraps

For March's cooking night we made PF Chang's Lettuce Wraps and they were SCRUMPTIOUS!

Here is the recipe for 6-9 servings

Ingredients
9 tablespoons oil
6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
3 cups water chestnuts
2 1/16 cups mushrooms
9 tablespoons chopped onions
3 teaspoons minced garlic
12-15 leaves iceberg lettuce

Special Sauce
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups water
6 tablespoons soy sauce
6 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
6 tablespoons ketchup
3 tablespoons lemon juice
3/8 teaspoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons hot mustard
6 teaspoons water
3-6 teaspoons garlic and red chile paste

Stir Fry Sauce
6 tablespoons soy sauce
6 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons rice wine vinegar

Directions

• Make the special sauce by dissolving the sugar in water in a small bowl.
• Add soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, ketchup, lemon juice and sesame oil.
• Mix well and refrigerate this sauce until you're ready to serve.
• Combine the hot water with the hot mustard and set this aside as well.
• Eventually add your desired measurement of mustard and garlic chili sauce to the special sauce mixture to pour over the wraps.
• Bring oil to high heat in a wok or large frying pan.
• Saute chicken breasts for 4 to 5 minutes per side or done.
• Remove chicken from the pan and cool.
• Keep oil in the pan, keep hot.
• As chicken cools mince water chestnuts and mushrooms to about the size of small peas.
• Prepare the stir fry sauce by mixing the soy sauce, brown sugar, and rice vinegar together in a small bowl.
• When chicken is cool, mince it as the mushrooms and water chestnuts are.
• With the pan still on high heat, add another Tbsp of vegetable oil.
• Add chicken, garlic, onions, water chestnuts and mushrooms to the pan.
• Add the stir fry sauce to the pan and saute the mixture for a couple minutes then serve it in the lettuce"cups".
• Top with"Special Sauce".

Critique:
These were very easy to make and really tasty.  Some of the ingredients were a little more difficult to find, but that's because we looked at Wal-Mart for them.....side note always go to Harmon's or Smith's for more of the specialty items.

We found the recipe here.