No-Cook Sweet-Sour Lettuce Roll-Ups With Umami Dipping Sauce

• 2 carrots, raw, peeled and cut into thin strips 2 inches by 1/8 inch (medium-sized)
• 1 onion, cut into thin strips (medium sized)
• 1 garlic clove, minced (large)
• 14 cup sugar (to taste)
• 13 cup water
• 13 cup fresh lime juice (rice wine & cider vinegar OK)
• salt, to taste
• 2 garlic cloves, minced (large)
• 1 -3 serrano pepper, fresh, minced (jalapeno chilies OK)
• 18 teaspoon black pepper, fresh ground
• 12 cup fish sauce (Thai & Vietnamese both fine )
• 13 cup sugar, to taste
• 1 lime, peeled of all white skin and pureed with 1 1/2 cups water (whole large)
• 12 cup tomatoes, pureed (rich-tasting grape & small heirlooms fine)
• 3 cups chicken, cold cooked (meat, fish, tempeh, tofu, vegetables all fine)
• 1 -2 serrano pepper, fresh, minced (jalapeno chilies fine too)
• 12 cup almonds, whole salted, coarsely chopped
• 13 cup spearmint, leaves small, fresh (tight-packed)
• 13 cup coriander leaves, torn (tight-packed)
• salt, to taste
• black pepper, fresh-ground, to taste
• 1 head lettuce (large crisphead type like Bibb)
• 2 cups grape tomatoes, halved
• 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and sliced into 2-inch sticks (large)
• 2 limes, cut into wedges

1. Mix the ingredients for the Sweet-Tart Carrot/Onion Pickle together, taste for sweet-tart balance, and let marinate 30 minutes to three days in the refrigerator.
2. When ready to serve, drain and mix with the chicken filling.
3. In a glass jar with a screw top, combine all ingredients for the Sweet-Tart Dipping Sauce with Tomato, shaking to dissolve sugar.
4. Taste for balance.
5. Keep in the refrigerator up to 3 weeks.
6. To serve, set out in 4 individual little bowls, one for each diner.
7. When ready to serve set out the sauce and chicken.
8. Arrange all the roll-up fillings, lettuce cups, tomatoes, cucumber and lime wedges on a large platter.
9. Everyone spoons a little filling into the cups, adds tomato and cucumber, squeezes lime over the mix, rolls them up and dips into the sauce if desired.

carrots, onion, garlic, sugar, water, lime juice, salt, garlic, serrano pepper, black pepper, fish sauce, sugar, lime, tomatoes, chicken, serrano pepper, almonds, spearmint, coriander leaves, salt, black pepper, head lettuce, grape tomatoes, cucumber

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/no-cook-sweet-sour-lettuce-roll-ups-with-umami-dipping-sauce-375761 (may not work)