Asian Beef Lettuce Wraps Recipe 465

ASIAN BEEF LETTUCE WRAPS

Steps:

• Rinse whole lettuce leaves and pat dry, being careful not tear them. Set aside.
• In a medium skillet over high heat, brown the ground beef in 1 tablespoon of oil, stirring often and reducing the heat to medium, if necessary. Drain, and set aside to cool. Cook the onion in the same pan, stirring frequently. Add the garlic, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, ginger, vinegar, and chile pepper sauce to the onions, and stir. Stir in chopped water chestnuts, green onions, and sesame oil, and continue cooking until the onions just begin to wilt, about 2 minutes.
• Arrange lettuce leaves around the outer edge of a large serving platter, and pile meat mixture in the center. To serve, allow each person to spoon a portion of the meat into a lettuce leaf. Wrap the lettuce around the meat like a burrito.

ASIAN BEEF LETTUCE WRAPS

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Add hoisin sauce and peanut sauce; cook until heated through, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Spoon beef mixture into the center of lettuce leaves, taco-style. Top with cucumber, carrot, and mint. Season with salt and pepper.

ASIAN LETTUCE WRAPS

Steps:

• Rinse whole lettuce leaves and pat dry, being careful not tear them. Set aside.
• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef and cooking oil in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and discard grease; transfer beef to a bowl. Cook and stir onion in the same skillet used for beef until slightly tender, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir hoisin sauce, garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, ginger, and chile pepper sauce into onions. Add water chestnuts, green onions, sesame oil, and cooked beef; cook and stir until the onions just begin to wilt, about 2 minutes.
• Arrange lettuce leaves around the outer edge of a large serving platter and pile meat mixture in the center.

ASIAN BEEF & LETTUCE WRAPS

Steps:

• Combine first six ingredients then divide in half; add beef to half of marinade and let sit at least 1 hour at room temperature. Reserve remaining marinade for cooking later.
• Bring water to a boil; add rice, reduce heat to just below medium, and cook 38 min then let sit 15 min without opening lid (from "Plain but Perfect Every Time Brown Rice).
• Drain meat, discarding marinade.
• Heat oil over med-high heat 1 min then add sesame seeds and continue to heat 1 min more, stirring.
• Add beef to pan and cook, stirring gently, 4 min or so until beef is mostly cooked.
• Combine cornstarch and fresh, unused marinade and pour over cooked beef; cook 1 min, stirring, then remove from heat.
• To partly cooled rice, add soy sauce, vinegar, honey, and ginger; stir.
• To assemble wraps, layer rice, beef, beans, onions, cucumber, carrots, avocado, and cilantro on leaf of lettuce and roll up.

EXPRESS ASIAN BEEF LETTUCE WRAPS

Steps:

• Brown ground beef in large skillet over medium heat, approximately 8 - 10 minutes or until no longer pink.
• Drain meat.
• Stir in hoisin sauce and peanut sauce until meat is coated.
• Heat meat through.
• Just prior to serving, add cucumber, carrots and torn mint.
• Mix gently.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve with lettuce leaves, garnishing with mint, as desired.