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Yield:
1
Ingredients:
Amount Ingredient
3/4 lb medium-size raw shrimp peeled, deveined,
and diced
6 x dried black mushrooms
2 tbl vegetable oil
1 tsp minced fresh ginger
1 sm carrot diced
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/2 sm zucchini diced
1/2 cup diced water chestnuts
2 x green onions, including tops thinly sliced
2 tbl soy sauce
1/8 tsp freshly-ground white pepper
1/2 tsp cornstarch mixed with
1 tsp water
1/2 cup toasted pine nuts
(or coarsely chopped peanuts)
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
8 x iceberg lettuce leaves
----------------- MARINADE ----------------
1 tbl Shao Hsing wine or dry sherry
1 tsp cornstarch
Instructions:
Instructions: Combine marinade ingredients in a medium bowl. Add shrimp and stir to coat. Set aside for 30 minutes.

Soak mushrooms in warm water to cover for 30 minutes; drain. Cut off and discard stems and dice caps.

Place a wok or wide frying pan over high heat until hot. Add oil, swirling to coat sides. Add ginger and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 5 seconds. Add shrimp and stir-fry for 1 1/2 minutes or until shrimp turn pink. Remove shrimp from wok.

Add mushrooms, carrot and broth and cook for 1 minute. Add zucchini, water chestnuts and green onions and cook for 1 1/2 minutes or until zucchini is crisp-tender. Return shrimp to wok and add soy sauce and pepper. Add cornstarch solution and cook, stirring, until sauce boils and thickens. Stir in pine nuts. Transfer to a serving platter.

To eat, spread a little hoisin sauce on a lettuce leaf, spoon in some shrimp mixture, wrap lettuce around filling and eat out of hand.

This recipe yields 8 wraps.

Yield: 8 wraps

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