ginger beef lettuce wraps with crispy rice paper
I have been craving lots of veggies this week and also been trying to keep things on the lighter side.
I originally wanted to do thinly sliced beef, but it quickly crossed into “not worth the squeeze” territory. Ground beef turned out to be the better call - faster, easier, and just as good. But I was missing that crunch you get from the ginger beef. Enter, crispy rice paper! It was just what it needed.
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lunch plate
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I’m starting to share occasional recipes from cooks and writers I genuinely love, people whose food fits naturally into how I cook and eat.
This week’s recipe is from Jenn Lueke of the eat good newsletter and @jenneatsgood on instagram, to celebrate her new cookbook - Don’t think about dinner!!! Her food is thoughtful, unfussy, and deeply practical, exactly the kind of cooking I love!
She generously shared her recipe for chicken pot pie soup for my readers. Bonus, it’s gluten free, dairy free, and pretty much a chop > dump > go - my kinda dinner. You can find it below, and if it’s your kind of thing, her cookbook is worth a look.
ginger beef lettuce wraps with crispy rice paper
serves 4 | 30 minutes
simplify:
use pre-minced ginger or garlic
skip the rice paper sheets and sub in pre-made crispy shallots
buy pre-sliced carrots or use a box grater instead of matchsticking
where to find bib lettuce: I recently heard that bib lettuce is really hard to find in some cities because the restaurants gets first dibs and there isn’t a ton to go around, BUT I finally found some pre-packaged ones at whole foods by Organic Girl