Recipe: Tasty Lettuce Cups (mango & pork)

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Recipe: Tasty Lettuce Cups (mango & pork) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Lettuce Cups (mango & pork). Season with kosher salt and black pepper. Serve rice and chicken mixture in butter lettuce leaves. Whenever Paul sees me marinating a steak, I get two looks - the first is pure joy, and then immediately followed by a half-hearted eye-roll.

If making ahead, cover bowl and refrigerate mixture up to overnight.

The lettuce cups were hard to make because the lettuce was not cup-shaped.

I followed the tips and used water and chilled but still had issues.

You can cook Lettuce Cups (mango & pork) using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Lettuce Cups (mango & pork)

  1. It’s 2 of Little Gems - mainly the outer leaves washed.

  2. It’s of dried chilli flakes.

  3. You need 1 of ripe mango diced.

  4. It’s 1 of red chilli diced.

  5. It’s of aprox 250g diced or minced pork.

  6. It’s 2 of fat garlic cloves.

  7. You need 1 of red onion sliced not diced.

  8. Prepare 1 tsp of each giner and lemongrass paste (or fresh).

  9. Prepare 2-3 tbsp of soy sauce.

  10. You need 1-2 tsp of honey.

  11. You need 1 of lime zest and juice(zest to garnish) (1/2 juice for pork 1/2 mango).

  12. Prepare handful of chopped peanuts- garnish.

  13. You need of fresh coriander- garnish.

  14. It’s of sweet chilli sauce- just a drizzle to finish.

  15. Prepare of radish - garnish(optional).

  16. You need of sesame oil to cook.

I think in the future I might try romaine lettuce or a different plate that has compartments to hold the lettuce cups.

Pairs wonderfully with Tom Ka Gai soup.

Shrimp is usually sold by the number needed to make one pound.

Size names, such as "large" or "extra large," are not standardized, so to get the size you want, order by the count per pound.

Lettuce Cups (mango & pork) instructions

  1. If you have the time marinate the pork overnight in the ginger, garlic, lemongrass, soy and chilli befor you cook.

  2. In a wok or pan on a high heat add sesame oil and then the onions and cook for just a min or 2, then add the pork along with the marinade..

  3. Cook the pork on all sides until brown and turn the heat down a bit. cook for a few minutes..

  4. When the pork is cooking prepare all the garnish and mango for the lettuce cups..

  5. Arrange your cups on a platter and fill the mango that has been mixed with a little grate of garlic and dried chilli flakes (just a bit) and 1/2 the lime..

  6. Make sure your coriander, peanuts, lime zest, and radish is chopped and ready to go..

  7. Once the pork is reday add a squeeze of lime and drizzle of honey, give it a good stir and and top the mango with it..

  8. Next sprinkle each lettuce cup with the zest, nuts, coriander and radish each garnish adds colour, texture and flavour to the cups..

  9. Addin extra chilli sauce is optional and not essential maybe just drizzle a bit around the cups so people can dip if they want to..

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The leaves of romaine lettuce sit next to thin, sweet slices of mango, ribbons of zucchini, torn herbs, and radishes sliced into matchsticks.

That way, each of us can fill our wraps to our liking.

I always try to get a good mix of sweet & savory, soft & crisp ingredients in every wrap.