This post is part of a wonderful Recipe Link Up so look at the bottom for more wonderful fun and healthy recipes to try from some of my other favorite food bloggers! For lunch, I made these Chinese-restaurant style beef lettuce wraps in under 30 minutes. I love lettuce cups/wraps when I eat out but never tried to make them myself. I had some leftover ground beef from a couple days ago and felt inspired to give the wraps a go. I went through a bunch of recipes until I found this much more straightforward version that I just made a couple tweaks to.

Beef Lettuce Wraps www.EverydayCookingAdventures.com

I cooked the ground beef in sesame oil and added canned water chestnuts that I diced. I also omitted the peanuts but added a tablespoon of peanut sauce. I served the beef mixture in one bowl and the lettuce leaves in another and plated some leftover sushi rice from last night’s Seared Ahi Tuna dinner.

I had two full wraps. They came out seasoned very nicely, not too spicy and not sweet and tasted equal to restaurant-quality if you ask me. It was filling too, which I was surprised about. Great lunch and pretty darn fast to whip up in the wok. Here are my lettuce wraps: #foodnetwork #lettucewrap

Beef Lettuce Wraps www.EverydayCookingAdventures.com

Asian Beef Lettuce Wraps

by: Food Network’s Sunny Anderson on “Cooking for Real,” 2009

Prep: 20 min
Cook: 8 min
Yield: 2 servings

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil or sesame oil
• 1/2 pound ground beef
• 1-inch piece ginger, peeled and finely grated
• 1 scallion, chopped
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• dash of red pepper flakes
• 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
• 2 tablespoons chopped peanuts
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Directions
1. Take 1 head lettuce, separate large leaves, clean and dry without breaking the whole leaves.
2. In a skillet over medium-high heat, add the vegetable oil and saute beef until brown.
3. Stir in ginger, scallions, garlic, soy sauce, red pepper flakes, and hoisin and cook for 1 minute. 4. Remove from the heat and stir in the peanuts. Season with salt and pepper and serve warm wrapped in lettuce cups.