Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Ok, so. Day five of the diet and things are going pretty well. That said, the two mainstays of my diet thus far (a lentil-chicken-bacon hash and plain meat with carrots) can get a little boring. So, I've been poking around trying to find some good recipes that I can make all the time. Then I remembered an amazing Thai appetizer I had a few years back.

I went to the grocery store and picked up some stuff to replicate the recipe, and it turned out exceptionally. I would expect I'll be eating this at least once a week for the foreseeable future.

Disclaimer: I like to cook, but I hate to measure. For that reason, every recipe that I write in this blog will be terribly imprecise. If you want to replicate any of this stuff, just listen to your heart.

Ingredients:

-3 boneless skinless chicken breasts
-vegetable oil
-Half an onion, diced
-a few cloves of garlic, diced
-a grip of broccoli slaw
-a grip of matchstick cut carrots
-a grip of bean sprouts
-some cocktail peanuts, crushed
-Lettuce (anything with big, strong leafs. I'm using red leaf lettuce currently, but I'm looking for something stronger.)
-Bangok Padang brand Thai peanut sauce*

*I can not stress enough how important it is that you get Bangkok Padang brand sauce. There are a lot of awful peanut sauces on the market, but this stuff is like peanut based crack in a bottle. It is completely amazing.

Directions-
1. Heat the vegetable oil in the pan and saute the onions and garlic in the pan.
2. Add the chicken on medium heat so it cooks in the oil with the onions and garlic. Make sure everything is cooked through.
3. Cut the chicken into little bits. You can take the chicken out of the pan and dice it up on a plate. Or, if you are as lazy as I am, you can dice that shit up in the pan.
4. Put heat on high, brown the chicken. Once chicken is browned, let cool.
5. After the chicken has cooled a bit, put the chicken, onions, and garlic, in a large seal-able container (I used a gallon ziplock bag) with equal amounts of the sprouts, carrots, broccoli slaw and the peanuts. At this point, your mixture should be about 1/3-1/2 chicken.
6. Pour about 1/3 of the bottle of peanut sauce into the container and shake vigorously
7. When you have you mixture, lay out a leaf of lettuce and put some of that mixture on the leaf. Roll that shit up and eat it like a taco. If you don't have lettuce, you can also just eat the stuff in the bad as a dope chicken salad.

Note- This will make a ton of good stuff, and it preserves well, so it makes a pretty great lunch to take to work.