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Chicken Lettuce Cups...good source of protein?

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Posted by: vanessa5691

is a restaurant order of Lettuce cups (filled with marinated chicken, scallions, water chestnuts, and black bean-hoisin sauce) a good sourse of protein and fat? is it as healthy as reg chicken?

Posted by: Nate K

I would eat it. Sounds good except for the amount of sodium they could possible add to the chicken....but thats alright, it's not like your eating it every meal.

Posted by: cha

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Originally Posted by vanessa5691

is a restaurant order of Lettuce cups (filled with marinated chicken, scallions, water chestnuts, and black bean-hoisin sauce) a good sourse of protein and fat? is it as healthy as reg chicken?

hoisin sauce is typically loaded with sugar. If you stay away from that everything else looks good so long as they dont cook this with a ton of oil and/or soy sauce.

Posted by: Emma-Leigh

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Originally Posted by vanessa5691

is a restaurant order of Lettuce cups (filled with marinated chicken, scallions, water chestnuts, and black bean-hoisin sauce) a good sourse of protein and fat? is it as healthy as reg chicken?

Sounds ok to me for a cheat.. but it is not going to be as 'healthy' for you as plain chicken - and if you are trying to be accurate with your diet then you best not rely on it as a source of anything.

This is because the quality depends on what type of chicken they use in it (breast? leg?), the amount of source they use, and what else they add that you are not aware of (may have oil or other things in it)...

Posted by: Hlanderr

man that sounds good.... what kind of resturant is that?

and is it an actual sit-down order? or is for example like a quiznos

Posted by: aggies1ut

These are these ingredients to P.F. Chang's chicken lettuce wraps.

8 dried shiitake mushrooms
1 tsp cornstarch
2 tsp dry sherry
2 tsp water
salt and pepper
1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken
5 tbsp oil
1 tsp fresh minced ginger
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 green onions, minced
2 small dried chilies, (optional)
1 (8 oz) can bamboo shoots, minced
1 (8 oz) can water chestnuts, minced
1 package cellophane Chinese rice noodles, prepared according to package

Cooking Sauce:
1 tbsp hoisin sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp dry sherry
2 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp water
1 tsp. sesame oil
1 tsp. sugar
2 tsp. cornstarch

Posted by: vanessa5691

yeaa its for sammys woodfried pizza...they taste just like the ones at pf chang's

Posted by: guesswhosback

so are they healthy?

Posted by: cha

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Originally Posted by guesswhosback

so are they healthy?

If you make them on your own - yes 'cuz you know what's in it (as long as you skip the unhealty stuff). If you order it from a restaurant - no - 'cuz you don't really know what they put in it (what kind of minced chicken, amount of oil, butter, say sauce, etc, etc.

I make this all the time with 100% ground chicken breast, scallions, mushrooms, water chestnuts, a little light soy sauce, a little garlic chili paste, minced garlic and a little olive oil.

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