These healthy beef lettuce wraps are easy to make and filled with ground beef, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, rice vinegar, Sriracha, and homemade hoisin sauce; the wraps are held together with butter lettuce for a light meal you’ll love.
**Link to Recipe (Garnish options, cooking tips, serving suggestions, process pictures, leftover instructions, etc)**
– 4 tablespoons soy sauce – 1 teaspoon ginger paste – 1 ½ tablespoons sesame oil – 1 ½ tablespoons rice wine vinegar – 1 ½ tablespoons Monk Fruit Sweetener, or Honey – 1 tablespoon Natural Almond Butter Powder
### **For the Lettuce Wrap:**
– 1 teaspoon sesame oil, plus more to garnish – 1 pound ground beef, lean – 1 carrot, shredded – ½ yellow onion, small diced – 2 cloves garlic, minced – 2 teaspoons fresh ginger, minced – 4 scallions, sliced, whites and greens separated – 1 tablespoon soy sauce – 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar – 3 teaspoons Sriracha – ¼ cup Homemade Hoisin, plus more for garnish – butter lettuce, washed and patted dry
### **INSTRUCTIONS**
– Before cooking, whisk the ingredients for homemade hoisin in a small bowl. Set it aside. – Warm sesame oil in a skillet over medium heat and add the ground beef. Break up the meat using a meat chopper; cook until brown and heated through for about 10 minutes. – Add onion and carrots to the beef; cook until the onions become translucent and soften for about 5 minutes. – Combine garlic, ginger, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and Sriracha in a small bowl. Stir the mixture, then add it to the ground beef with the homemade hoisin and the scallion whites. – Cover with a lid and simmer for 5 minutes. – Remove the lid, lower the heat, and allow the beef mixture to reduce for 2-5 minutes. – To serve, spoon the mixture into butter lettuce. Garnish with scallion greens, and use the leftover hoisin as a dipping sauce.
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These healthy beef lettuce wraps are easy to make and filled with ground beef, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, rice vinegar, Sriracha, and homemade hoisin sauce; the wraps are held together with butter lettuce for a light meal you’ll love.
**Link to Recipe (Garnish options, cooking tips, serving suggestions, process pictures, leftover instructions, etc)**
– [https://jamilghar.com/beef-lettuce-wraps](https://jamilghar.com/beef-lettuce-wraps)
### **INGREDIENTS**
### **For the Homemade Hoisin Sauce:**
– 4 tablespoons soy sauce
– 1 teaspoon ginger paste
– 1 ½ tablespoons sesame oil
– 1 ½ tablespoons rice wine vinegar
– 1 ½ tablespoons Monk Fruit Sweetener, or Honey
– 1 tablespoon Natural Almond Butter Powder
### **For the Lettuce Wrap:**
– 1 teaspoon sesame oil, plus more to garnish
– 1 pound ground beef, lean
– 1 carrot, shredded
– ½ yellow onion, small diced
– 2 cloves garlic, minced
– 2 teaspoons fresh ginger, minced
– 4 scallions, sliced, whites and greens separated
– 1 tablespoon soy sauce
– 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
– 3 teaspoons Sriracha
– ¼ cup Homemade Hoisin, plus more for garnish
– butter lettuce, washed and patted dry
### **INSTRUCTIONS**
– Before cooking, whisk the ingredients for homemade hoisin in a small bowl. Set it aside.
– Warm sesame oil in a skillet over medium heat and add the ground beef. Break up the meat using a meat chopper; cook until brown and heated through for about 10 minutes.
– Add onion and carrots to the beef; cook until the onions become translucent and soften for about 5 minutes.
– Combine garlic, ginger, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and Sriracha in a small bowl. Stir the mixture, then add it to the ground beef with the homemade hoisin and the scallion whites.
– Cover with a lid and simmer for 5 minutes.
– Remove the lid, lower the heat, and allow the beef mixture to reduce for 2-5 minutes.
– To serve, spoon the mixture into butter lettuce. Garnish with scallion greens, and use the leftover hoisin as a dipping sauce.