Korean-Style Chicken Wraps

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This Korean-inspired dish combines grilled chicken thighs with hoisin sauce, honey, soy, ginger, chili garlic sauce, and more in lettuce leaves.

Korean-Style Chicken Wraps
Photo: © Raymond Hom
Total Time:
30 mins
Yield:
6 servings
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Ingredients

  • Hoisin sauce

  • 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce

  • 2 tablespoons honey

  • 1 tablespoon finely grated fresh ginger

  • 2 garlic cloves, minced

  • 1 teaspoon chili-garlic sauce

  • 1 teaspoon sesame oil

  • Salt and freshly ground pepper

  • 3 pounds skinless, boneless chicken thighs, trimmed of visible fat

  • Vegetable oil, for brushing

  • 1 head green leaf lettuce, separated into leaves

  • 1 small cucumber, peeled and cut into 2-inch matchsticks

  • 3 scallions, cut into 2-inch matchsticks

  • Lime wedges, for serving

Directions

  1. Light a grill. In a medium bowl, combine 1/4 cup of hoisin sauce with the soy sauce, honey, grated ginger, minced garlic, chili-garlic sauce and sesame oil. Season the barbecue sauce with salt and pepper.

  2. Brush the chicken lightly with vegetable oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill the chicken over a hot fire, turning occasionally, until golden and almost cooked through, about 10 minutes. Brush with the barbecue sauce and grill, turning and brushing, until golden brown, about 3 minutes longer. Transfer the chicken to a work surface and let stand for 5 minutes, then cut it into 1/2-inch strips.

  3. Arrange the chicken and lettuce on a platter. Allow guests to make their own wraps by brushing a small amount of hoisin sauce on a lettuce leaf, topping it with cucumber, scallions, chicken and a squeeze of lime and rolling it up.

Suggested Pairing

A full-bodied but not-too-intense red will best highlight the dark chicken meat and the sweet, deep soy sauce. Look for a Malbec from Argentina.

Originally appeared: June 2004

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