Wanna Be PF Chang Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Adapted from Rachel Ray's Recipe:

* 2 cups, 4 handfuls mushrooms (no need to spend the bucks on the shitake)
* 1 1/3 to 1 1/2 pounds thin cut chicken breast or chicken tenders
* 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
* Salt and pepper to taste
* 3 cloves garlic, chopped
* 1 inch ginger root, finely chopped or grated, optional
* 1/4 orange, zested (more if you like the orange. She called for a full orange)
* 1/2 red bell pepper, diced small
* 1 small tin, 6 to 8 ounces, sliced water chestnuts, drained and chopped
* 3 scallions, chopped
* 3 tablespoons hoisin, Chinese barbecue sauce
* 1/2 large head iceberg lettuce, core removed, head quartered
* 1-2 serrano or jalepeno peppers including seeds to spice it up
* Maifun Rice noodles fried up (see the video above)


Directions

1. Chop chicken and mushrooms into small pieces.

2. Preheat your wok to high.

3. Add oil to hot pan. Add chicken to the pan and sear meat by stir frying a minute or 2. Add mushrooms and cook another minute or two. Add salt and pepper to season, then garlic and ginger. Cook a minute more.

4. Grate zest into pan, add bell pepper bits, chopped water chestnuts and scallions. Cook another minute, continuing to stir fry mixture.

5. Add hoisin Chinese barbecue sauce and toss to coat the mixture evenly.

6. Your done! Fill your lettuce with the meet and top with the fried noodles.

Serves 4

*If you don't like to chop this isn't for you. There is mucho chopping. This wasn't as PF Chang as I wanted so I'll have to try another recipe. It was VERY good, just not Chang good.

**Viviana gave me the "snazzy pants" she commented on in the video. I'm sure you agree they are snazzy and add to the fun of Maifun noodle frying.