Thai Pork Lettuce Wraps

20m
Prep Time
5m
Cook Time
25m
Ready In


"These wraps are easy to prepare and have lots of flavour without the long list of ingredients that some recipes have. This recipe came from Cook's Illustrated, but I changed the pork to the more user friendly ground pork, and used a Thai chili instead of the pepper flakes. The prep time includes the resting of the pork etc."

Original is 4 servings

Nutritional

  • Serving Size: 1 (255.3 g)
  • Calories 429
  • Total Fat - 27.4 g
  • Saturated Fat - 9.5 g
  • Cholesterol - 107.2 mg
  • Sodium - 182.4 mg
  • Total Carbohydrate - 15.4 g
  • Dietary Fiber - 3.6 g
  • Sugars - 6.7 g
  • Protein - 31.5 g
  • Calcium - 75.9 mg
  • Iron - 2.8 mg
  • Vitamin C - 29.6 mg
  • Thiamin - 0.9 mg

Step by Step Method

Step 1

Stir 1 tbsp fish sauce into ground pork and marinate, refrigerated for 15 minutes.

Step 2

Heat rice in small skillet over medium-high heat; cook stirring constantly until deep golden brown, about 5 minutes.

Step 3

Transfer rice to small bowl and cool for 5 minutes.

Step 4

Grind rice with mortar and pestle, spice grinder or mini food processor until it resembles fine meal, 10-30 seconds; you should have about 1 tbsp rice powder.

Step 5

Bring broth to a simmer in large skillet over medium-high heat.

Step 6

Add pork and cook, stirring frequently, until about half of the pork is no longer pink, about 2 minutes.

Step 7

Sprinkle 1 tsp rice powder over pork; continue to cook, stirring constantly until remaining pork is no longer pink, 1-1 1/2 minutes longer.

Step 8

Transfer pork to a large bowl; let cool 10 minutes.

Step 9

Add remaining 1 1/2 tsp fish sauce, remaining 2 tsp rice powder, shallots, lime juice, sugar, Thai chili, mint and cilantro to pork; toss to combine.

Step 10

Serve with lettuce leaves.

Step 11

This can be a main for 4 people or an appetizer for 6.

Tips


No special items needed.

6 Reviews

TeresaS

We did enjoy the wraps...loved the mint and cilantro flavors...every once in a while we got a bit of rice that didn't turn into powder...I did give the pestle grinding to the hubby...but I felt he did an excellent job...made for "Bill Board" tag game.

4.0

review by:
(2 Jun 2017)

LindasBusyKitchen

These made a great lunch for us today. Love those Asian flavors! Thank you for sharing your recipe with us Patti! Linda

5.0

(9 Oct 2014)

Gerry

I love lettuce wraps and I love Thai, make for a lovely light lunch or evening meal. I didn't happen to have mint on hand, other than that followed through as posted. I also made these up using ground beef - either or I enjoyed every bite.

5.0

review by:
(1 May 2014)

QueenBea

I made these using hot pepper flakes and it turned out lovely. This made for a very nice light lunch. A keeper recipe!!

5.0

review by:
(5 Sep 2013)

SingleDadChef

I did not make these but my daughter made these (well I did help) a while ago and I somehow forgot to rate this, she served them to a group of gals who really enjoyed eating them, so thank you!

5.0

review by:
(28 Jun 2013)

Bergy

5 star How else would I rate this tasty recipe. We loved it as our Sunday appetizer Mmmmm

5.0

review by:
(7 Apr 2013)

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