Chinese
Turkey Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Whisk the tamari, rice vinegar, brown sugar, and sesame oil into a sauce.
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Heat the neutral oil in a skillet over medium-high and cook the ground turkey, breaking it up, until browned, about 6 minutes.
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Add the garlic, ginger, and chopped water chestnuts and cook 2 minutes.
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Pour in the sauce and cook until glossy and the liquid has mostly cooked off, about 3 minutes.
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Separate the butter lettuce into cups and shred the carrots.
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Spoon the turkey into the lettuce cups, top with carrot and sliced scallions, and serve.
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Serve it with
A Chinese lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Turkey Lettuce Wraps, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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 | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| 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
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 330 kcal
- Protein
- 31 g
- Carbs
- 15 g
- Fat
- 16 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 5 g
- Sodium
- 680 mg
- Saturated fat
- 3 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
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.
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