Spicy Pork Lettuce Wraps

Stuffed lettuce cups with savory ground meat and diced vegetables, garnished with chopped green onions.

4.80 from 5 votes

Spicy Pork Lettuce Wraps

🥬🐷🌶️ EASY, ready in 20 minutes, perfectly SPICY yet wonderfully fresh! Just enough heat to keep you going back for more! A new dinnertime WINNER! You can sub ground chicken or ground turkey for the pork to keep them leaner.

Prep Time5

Cook Time15

Total Time20

Course: 30-Minute Meals

Cuisine: Asian

Keyword: asian lettuce wraps, easy lettuce wraps, ground pork lettuce wraps, healthy lettuce wraps, pork lettuce wraps

Servings: servings

Calories: 184cal

Author: Averie Sunshine

Equipment

1 large skillet

Ingredients

2 tablespoons sesame oil
one 16-ounce package Jimmy Dean Premium Pork Sausage Hot Sausage may be substituted
1 medium/large sweet Vidalia or yellow onion diced small
one 8-ounce can water chestnuts drained and diced small
½ cup hoisin sauce
2 to 3 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
2 to 3 tablespoons Asian chili garlic sauce or to taste
2 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sriracha optional and to taste
2 teaspoons ground ginger or 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger or to taste
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper or to taste
2 to 3 green onions sliced into thin rounds
butter lettuce or ‘living lettuce’ leaves for serving

Instructions

To a large skillet, add the oil, Jimmy Dean Premium Pork Sausage, onions and cook over medium-high heat until sausage is cooked through; stir intermittently and crumble sausage while cooking to ensure even cooking.
Add the water chestnuts, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, chili garlic sauce, rice vinegar, optional sriracha, ginger, pepper, stir to combine, and cook for about 3 to 4 minutes, or until water chestnuts are warmed and soften slightly; stir intermittently.
Taste filling and make any necessary flavor adjustments, i.e. more chili garlic sauce, hoisin, pepper, etc.
Spoon about 1/4 cup of the filling into the lettuce leaves and evenly garnish with green onions before serving.

Notes

Recipe is best warm and fresh but filling will keep airtight in the fridge for up to 5 days.

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