Lettuce Wraps with Smoked Trout

Name: Lettuce Wraps with Smoked Trout
Yield: 4 Servings
Ingredients: 2 medium carrots, peeled; 1/2 unpeeled English hothouse cucumber (do not remove seeds); 1/4 cup thinly sliced shallots; 1/4 cup thinly sliced jalapeño chiles with seeds (preferably red; about 2 large); 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice or unseasoned rice vinegar; 1 tablespoon sugar; 1 tablespoon fish sauce (such as nam pla or nuoc nam); 2 4.5-ounce packages skinless smoked trout fillets,* broken into bite-size pieces (about 2 cups); 1 cup diced grape tomatoes; 1/2 cup whole fresh mint leaves; 1/2 cup small whole fresh basil leaves; 16 small to medium inner leaves of romaine lettuce (from about 2 hearts of romaine); 1/3 cup (about) Asian sweet chili sauce**; 1/4 cup finely chopped lightly salted dry-roasted peanuts

By Jill DupleixPhotography by Misha Gravenor

June 8, 2009

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