Peanut Chicken Lettuce Wraps with Ginger Garlic Sauce (2024)

It’s Peanut Chicken Lettuce Wraps Day!

Which is obviouslymy best kind of day. Even if it is a Monday which, in my previous life as a teacher, would have beena holiday, which, in my current life as a blogger, I now don’t have as a holiday because I have the world’s strictest boss ( –> myself).

My boss is actually so strict that she requires me to eat aminimumfive lettuce wraps for lunch every day. I KNOW. It is seriously rough around here sometimes.

I probably don’t even need to tell youthat these lettuce wraps are totally my jam right now. From the savory chicken, peanut, and rice noodle filling to the crunchy, beautiful peanut and cilantro toppings to the just-barely tangy sauce that goes over the top, and right straight into the fresh, delicate lettuce leaves that will then transport the overflowing boat of deliciousness into your mouth…

OHMYGOSH. It’s all just really, really good.

These lettuce wraps are a little different, though, because HI RICE NOODLES.

That’s right – I just added rice noodles to my lettuce wraps. Whatcha gonna do about it? (And if you’re really into this idea, there’s even more where that came from)

It all startedbecause I was bringing these over to a friend’s house for an appetizer dinner (by the way – when was the last time youhad an appetizer dinner? it’s the best thing ever and you need to make it happen. asap.) and I realized before I even got there that I was going to be sad after I ate these lettuce wrapsas an appetizer.

Because I have this thing:Iam consistently plagued by theI’m-Still-Hungry dilemma anytime I eat lettuce wraps.Ugh. Like, Iget two bitesof filling and then somehow they’re gone and I still need more food. Wh-hy-hy-hyyy? Blackmagic, I tell you.

Being firm in my convictions about food,I cannot morally support any kind of skimpy, un-filling lettuce wraps any longer. So naturally, I made lettuce wraps that are appropriately sized for small giants. Filled with chicken, peanuts, and rice noodles (my favorite!) and meant to be eaten as aMEAL. None of this two bite business, my friends. No thank you.

Go lettuce-wrap-big or go home.

Please hear me when I say that these areas simple as they are delicious. I mean like 20-minute simple. It’s totally a Monday and WE CAN TOTALLY DO THIS.

Step one: Sauce. The best things in life always start with sauce.

Step two: Marinate chicken and peanuts. For, like, .37 seconds because we have hangry people in the house.

Step three: Brown the chicken and peanuts and rice noodles. There they are, those sneaky rice noodles.

Step four: Wrap, sprinkle, drizzle sauce, and DEVOUR IN BLISS.

May thesePeanut ChickenLettuce Wraps for The Hungry Girlbring you much joy, friends.

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