Shiitake Moo Shu Wraps

This vegetarian mushroom mixture lettuce wraps has a lot of flavor and wonderful textures. Wrapped in delicate butter lettuce is a great complement to those rich flavors. You can also serve it on top of rice instead of lettuce if you prefer.

1 small head (11 cups) Napa cabbage, cut in 1 inch square pieces
1lb. (9 cups) shiitake mushrooms, sliced
2 ½ cups sweet onions, sliced
2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
½ teaspoon granulated onion
½ teaspoon granulated garlic
½ teaspoon ginger, minced or shredded
½ teaspoon garlic, fresh minced
6 tablespoons olive oil
3 teaspoons soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
Dash sesame oil
12 to 16 butter lettuce leaves or leaves of choice
1 teaspoon sesame seeds, for garnish

Optional toppings: you can also add peanuts, cashews, cilantro or sai fun noodles

Sautee onion and cabbage in large frying pan in 2 tablespoons of oil on medium heat. Halfway through the sauté process add minced ginger and garlic. Cook until the cabbage cooks down but isn’t soggy, about 5 minutes. Add two teaspoons soy sauce and ¼ teaspoon salt. Remove from pan and set aside.
In same pan sauté mushrooms in 4 tablespoons oil. (It may seem like a lot but the mushrooms really absorb the oil.) Cook on medium low heat until they’re brown and tender, about 10 minutes. If it gets too dry while cooking you can add a couple tablespoons of water. Add granulated onion, granulated garlic, one teaspoon of soy sauce and ¼ teaspoon of salt.
Add cabbage/onion mixture back to pan with the mushrooms and add the hoisin sauce. Stir to mix and remove from heat. Bring mixture to room temperature.
Place lettuce leaves on plate and divide mixture between leaves. Garnish with sesame seeds.

Note: If serving on rice instead of wraps add 1/2 cup of water after cooking.

Serves: 6-8

Cooking time: 40 minutes

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Donna H.

5:41AM PST on Feb 4, 2013

Sounds great - thanks for the recipe.

February 4
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Theodore S.

10:18AM PST on Nov 18, 2012

I look at a lot of these recipes and they all look good until I start looking at the ingredients. The ingredients being mustard, mayonnaise, hoi sin sauce, vegetable oils; sesame oil, soy sauce. Most of these are loaded with processed sugars or iodized salts. I have great difficulty getting organic soy which I don't use a lot of so I'm hanging on dearly to the one I have. 98% of all soy sauce out there is GMO in origin. Make sure that what you are using is organic or as close to natural as possible. Other than that enjoy.

November 18
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3:20PM PDT on Aug 17, 2012

LOVE mushrooms! - Sounds like a good recipe, although i don't get why the granulate onions and garlic?!
and perhaps meant to read "toasted" sesame oil....
Thank you