Chinese
Turkey Lettuce Wraps
Turkey Lettuce Wraps is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.25 lb ground turkey
- 2 heads butter lettuce
- 8 oz canned water chestnuts
- 2 carrots
- 3 tbsp gluten-free tamari
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 1 tbsp neutral oil
- 3 scallions
How to cook it
- Whisk the tamari, rice vinegar, brown sugar, and sesame oil into a sauce.
- Heat the neutral oil in a skillet over medium-high and cook the ground turkey, breaking it up, until browned, about 6 minutes.
- Add the garlic, ginger, and chopped water chestnuts and cook 2 minutes.
- Pour in the sauce and cook until glossy and the liquid has mostly cooked off, about 3 minutes.
- Separate the butter lettuce into cups and shred the carrots.
- Spoon the turkey into the lettuce cups, top with carrot and sliced scallions, and serve.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Turkey Lettuce Wraps carries soy and sesame. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Mapo Tofu |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Turkey Lettuce Wraps takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on turkey, lettuce, water chestnut, and carrot.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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