Anna's Lettuce Wraps

I hit the jackpot this week at the grocery store: 1 pound packages of ground turkey on sale for $1.99 and iceberg lettuce on sale for $0.59 per head!  AMAZING!  I remember about dying this winter when it was over $2 per head.  Too bad you can't freeze it and stock up.  


Anyway, this means that it's time to break out the LETTUCE WRAPS!  We love these at that well-known restaurant that starts with a "PF" and ends with "Chang."    However, now that we have my friend Anna's recipe for her lettuce wraps, there's almost no reason to travel to west Omaha to enjoy these.  In fact, I think these are better!  

 Lettuce Wraps

• Cook & drain 1 1/2 lbs ground turkey (I used 2 lbs and then just made all measurements a little bit more)
• Add to the turkey: 
• 1/4 c chopped green onion
• 3 T minced fresh cilantro
• 2 T soy sauce (I use Bragg Liquid Aminos, a soy sauce alternative made from soy, but with insane amounts of protien and way less sodium -- found at HyVee in the Health Food Store)
• 3 T creamy PB (I used super chunky, and then omitted the chopped peanuts at the end of the recipe)
• 2 t. red chile paste (I could only find this at Papillion HyVee in the produce section with the tubes of minced garlic, crushed herbs, etc.)
• 2 cloves crushed garlic
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1/2 t crushed red pepper flakes.

Cook the above together 3-4 minutes until heated through and mixed together. 

Serve atop lettuce leaves with shredded carrots (1 cup) and chopped peanuts (1/4 cup).  NO DIPPING SAUCE NEEDED!  

So good!  Perfect balance and not too spicy.  This serves 2 people as an entree, but if you have it as a side this could serve 4.  I find it is best served fresh.