free recipe friday: quick chinese dinner!
don’t we all love chinese food? what fond memories of endless buffets of exotic flavors we bid farewell to when we took the vegan plunge. well, not today! this dinner of sizzling hoisin-glazed stir-fry wrapped in cool lettuce leaves will make you wonder why you ever paid someone else for chinese food!
serves four
1/2 cup hoisin sauce
1/4cup rice vinegar
2cloves garlic, mashed or pressed
few drops of sriracha hot sauce (optional)
3T sesame or peanut oil
1package chicken style seitan, drained & sliced
2large carrots, julienned
1red bell pepper, juilenned
1 white onion, sliced into thin half moons
8large leaves red lettuce, for wrapping
2-4cups steamed white rice*
whisk together the hoisin, vinegar, garlic, and sriracha (if using); set aside. heat a large skillet or wok to high. coat with oil, then very quickly stir-fry seiten, carrot, bell pepper, and onion (in that order). when veg has achieved desired doneness (i like a little char on mine), pour over with the hoisin glaze and cook about one minute more. remove to a serving dish. serve immediately, providing 2lettuce wraps per person and a good scoop of rice on the side.
*because it is quicker, and always perfectly steamed, i spring for rice from my local chinese takeout. i am a starch nut, so i love just plain rice, but you can serve with soy sauce or extra hoisin for a garnish.
