Asian Pork Lettuce Wraps with Green Goddess Dipping Sauce
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December 21, 2016
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If you are looking for a colorful and nutrient-rich holiday appetizer or to just get something different on the table, try this Asian Pork Lettuce Wrap with a Green Goddess Dipping Sauce.
Asian cooking can be challenging for people who need to live gluten-free since Asian sauces often have gluten added to them.
• Soy sauce, oyster, hoisin, teriyaki sauces usually have gluten in them. Gluten-free alternatives exist.
• Imitation Crab meat – wheat is used as a binder and so is not gluten-free.
• Miso – is often barley or wheat based and so it not gluten-free. You can use rice-based miso paste if required in your recipe.
It is important to read the label of any sauce or packaged item to confirm it is gluten-free.
This recipe uses 5 Spice powder which is a blend of Szechuan peppercorns or black pepper corns, star anise, cloves, cinnamon, fennel seeds. This spice will give you familiar flavour notes found in Asian cooking.
In a season where there is lots of food around, this recipe uses lettuce leaves for serving, which is a nice light (and gluten-free) alternative. You can also enjoy this recipe with a wrap of your choice. Just make sure to heat your wrap slightly to help with the wrap’s pliability.
You can add in a variety of fillers into your lettuce cups and wraps. Stir fried vegetables, cooked legumes, roasted veggies with raisins and vinaigrette.
- 1 pound ground pork
- 1 tsp Chinese 5 spice powder
- 1 tbsp grated ginger root
- 1 garlic clove
- ½ red onion, diced
- 2 stalks celery, diced
- ½ can white cannellini beans
- 1 can sliced water chestnuts, drained.
- juice of 1 lime
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 3 green onions, sliced
- Dry roasted cashews (optional)
- Romaine Lettuce
- In a large frying pan, brown up ground pork until cooked. Add in Chinese 5 spice powder, ginger root and garlic. Cook 1 minute. Remove from pan onto a plate.
- Sautee red onion until softened. Add in celery, cook another 1-2 minutes.
- Add back in pork to frying pan. Add in cannellini beans, water chestnuts to heat. Finish off with lime juice, fish sauce, green onions (and cashews if using).
- Serve in endive leaves or lettuce leaves with the Green Goddess Dipping Sauce [2].
