Recipe I Promised
Fresh Healthy Lettuce Wraps
1 head of butter lettuce
3 cocktail cucumbers diagonally sliced
1 medium/large carrot julienned or grated
¼ sweet red bell pepper, small slim slices
1 green onion bulb & stalk, sliced
½ cup dry roasted salted peanuts (reserve)
1 T olive oil ½ tsp fresh grated ginger
1 tsp lime zest ½ tsp crushed garlic
1 T lime juice
Salt & pepper to taste
Gently separate 8 whole leaves from lettuce head, wash and pat dry. Lightly mix vegetables and onion in a medium bowl. In a glass measuring cup whisk together olive oil, lime juice, zest, ginger and garlic. Lightly toss vegetable mixture with dressing. Add salt & pepper to taste, go a light on the salt due to the salted peanuts.
Place the four largest lettuce leaves face up on a plate. Arrange the
remaining four leaves, one inside each of the first four, forming small bowls. With a slotted spoon, to allow extra dressing to drain, fill each set of lettuce leaves with the vegetable mixture. Sprinkle peanuts evenly over each lettuce wrap.
Left over wraps will keep a day in the refrigerator if you wrap each snugly in a paper towel and then in plastic wrap. I have also made these with chicken,
in which case I added to the vegetable mixture ½ pound of roasted, cold chicken shredded in bite size chunks. In the chicken version, I used ¼ cup chopped peanuts instead of the whole peanuts.
I developed this recipe from one similar on Epicurious.com.