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Best Recipe for Vegan Lettuce Wraps

Ingredients

  • Dipping Sauce:
  • 1/3 cup vegetarian hoisin sauce
  • 1 teaspoon water, or more to taste
  • 1/2 teaspoon sambal oelek (chile paste), or more to taste
  • Seasoning Sauce:
  • 1 tablespoon vegetarian oyster sauce
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1/2 teaspoon sambal oelek (chile paste) (optional)
  • 1/2 teaspoon mushroom seasoning
  • 1/4 teaspoon sesame oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon white sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • Wraps:
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 2 slices ginger
  • 5 ounces fried tofu, diced
  • 4 ounces jicama, peeled and diced
  • 3 fresh shiitake mushrooms, diced
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • ground black pepper to taste
  • 1/2 red bell pepper, diced
  • 8 large butterhead lettuce leaves
  • 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds, or to taste

Instructions

  1. Mix hoisin sauce, 1 teaspoon water, and 1/2 teaspoon sambal oelek together to make dipping sauce.
  2. Mix oyster sauce, 1 tablespoon water, 1/2 teaspoon sambal oelek, mushroom seasoning, sesame oil, sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt together in a bowl to make seasoning sauce.
  3. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir ginger until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add tofu, jicama, shiitake mushrooms, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and pepper; cook and stir until mushrooms are golden brown, about 5 minutes. Add red bell pepper and seasoning sauce; cook and stir until heated through, about 1 minute. Remove from heat.
  4. Place 1 to 2 tablespoons of tofu mixture in the center of each lettuce leaf. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top. Add 1 teaspoon dipping sauce; roll up lettuce to enclose tofu mixture. Repeat with remaining tofu mixture and lettuce leaves. Serve remaining dipping sauce alongside.

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