Asian Lettuce Wraps

This was one of the first meals when we changed our way of eating and removed processed meats ect from the freezer. It was a great one to start with and an excellent way to replace take out night. Now I'm not saying never eat take out but just do it as an occasional treat. Once every 2 weeks or something like that. You'll will enjoy it even more when you eat it.

We are very into Asian style food and Asian fusion cooking so this was an enjoyable start to bring that into our home and introducing it to our little foodie.

We had great feed back from this recipe on our old blog so I hope it will be enjoyed again!

OK so here are the Asian Lettuce wraps

Serves 4

Sauce:
1/3 cup orange juice (about 80ml, fresh squeezed if possible)
1 tbsp sugar (brown if possible)
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
1/4 tsp sesame oil
1/4 tsp dried chili flakes *optional*

Make this up, whisk in a bowl and leave to stand. I left mine for about 2 hours

You want to really let the flavours infuse

Wraps:
1/2 cup brown rice (uncooked)
400g minced turkey, tofu or beef
2 tsp very fine chopped garlic
2 tsp very fine chopped fresh ginger
1 lrg red pepper, cut to thin strips
6 spring onions, sliced thin
2 tbsp hoisin sauce (or 3 because it tastes amazing)
8 lettuce leaves, Iceberg works well


Before doing any prep, cook the rice. Add it to boiling water or steam and it will take up

to 20 mins

Prep away!

Pre heat a wok. Add your choice of meat or "meat" with the garlic and ginger
Cook through. Break up the meat as you cook

Add the red pepper to warm

Drain rice

Add the spring onion & hoisin sauce

To serve, add rice, meat mix to the lettuce "cup" and drizzle the sauce over


I want to eat this again just typing about it!