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Chinese Lettuce Cups

Chinese Lettuce Cups
Chinese Lettuce Cups

Ingredients

*optional
2 pounds lean ground pork, or lean ground beef, or lean ground turkey
6 garlic clove, minced
*2 Serrano (or 1 jalapeno) cut, ribs and seeds removed, minced
*1 tablespoon vegetable oil (if using ground turkey)
3 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
2 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2-3 tablespoons prepared Hoison sauce
½ cup loosely packed chopped basil chopped, (or 1/2 cup coarsely chopped cilantro)
2 heads Bibb or Iceberg lettuce
1 carrot or 8 baby carrots, julienned
1/2 cucumber, peeled, seeded and julienned
1 green onion, minced
½ red bell peppered julienned
2 tbsp toasted pine nuts, (or 2 tbsp toasted slivered almonds or 2 tbsp toasted peanuts)
Stack of napkins

Directions:

1. Gently cook ground meat through until no longer pink on medium heat.
2. While meat cooks, prepare julienned vegetables and lettuce bowls.
3. Make a well in the meat at center of pan, saute garlic and chilis in meat juices (or in oil if using turkey), over medium heat until fragrant. Distribute garlic and chilis through meat.
4. Add five-spice, soy sauce, brown sugar and hoison sauce to meat, stir to combine and thoroughly mix with meat.
5. Remove from heat.
6.Add basil or cilantro or lime leaves, stir to combine.
7. Separate Bibb lettuce leaves, double up to create eight sturdy bowls. If using iceberg, cut lettuce through core, remove core, separate leaves to create eight sturdy bowls.
8. Scoop the meat mixture into the lettuce leaves. Garnish with the carrot, cucumber, peppers and onion, top with pinenuts, almonds or peanuts.
9. Fold, eat and enjoy! Use napkins liberally.

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