Description
Easy Beef Lettuce Wraps (Quick + Healthy) – a seriously delicious weeknight meal (easily meal-prepped) your whole family will love!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1–2 tablespoons olive or avocado oil
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 3/4 cup diced yellow onion
- 1/2 cup diced carrot
- 1 can diced water chestnuts (optional)
- kosher salt and ground black pepper
- 1 – 1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1 head of butter lettuce (romaine or iceberg would work if that is all you have), carefully remove leaves and rinse. Pat dry and set aside.
Sauce:
- 1/4 cup coconut aminos (or soy sauce if not Whole30)
- 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon orange juice concentrate
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes (more or less to taste)
- 1/4 teaspoon fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons beef stock or broth
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoon Bob’s Red Mill Tapioca Starch
Toppings:
- Lime wedges
- Chopped fresh cilantro
- Green onion, sliced
- Avocado, sliced
- Red onion, sliced
- Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice or Cilantro Lime Rice (use cauliflower rice if Whole30/Paleo)
Instructions
- In 12-inch skillet, add oil to coat the pan and bring to medium-high heat.
- Add garlic and ginger; stir to allow them to cook until aromatic, about 1-2 minutes.
- Add yellow onion and carrot to pan; cook 2-3 minutes moving around the pan.
- Add additional oil if pan gets dry.
- Add ground beef and move around pan with spatula, allowing to cook fully.
- Meanwhile, combine Sauce ingredients and whisk together until Tapioca Starch is fully combined; set aside.
- Prep Toppings and have ready.
- If using cauliflower rice or regular rice, ensure it is being cooked and ready to go at this time as well.
- Once ground beef is fully cooked (drain excess grease, if necessary) and Toppings are ready add Sauce mixture to ground beef and mix on medium-high heat. it will thicken quickly, about 1 minute.
- Remove from heat and serve immediately.
- To serve take a piece of butter lettuce and top if rice (if using) and then some ground beef mixture. Squeeze lime juice on top, add green onion and cilantro.
Notes
- Tapioca Starch: You can use arrowroot starch instead of tapioca if you need to, but I recommend tapioca starch for this.
- Toppings: I highly recommend the use of lime + cilantro when serving!! It completes the dish!
- Turkey: You could also sub ground turkey for the beef, but just be aware that turkey has a milder flavor so you may need to adjust the flavoring so taste as you go!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6oz
- Calories: 383
- Sugar: 6.6 g
- Sodium: 447.7 mg
- Fat: 16.7 g
- Carbohydrates: 33.2 g
- Protein: 28.6 g
- Cholesterol: 67.8 mg