Korean Ground Beef and Rice Lettuce Wraps Recipe

Korean Ground Beef and Rice Lettuce Wraps Recipe

This healthy, easy and tasty lettuce wrap recipe is perfect for lunch or dinner! Also great served in a bowl instead of a wrap. Ready in 15 minutes!


Korean Ground Beef and Rice Lettuce Wraps

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Jutta from Hungry Little Girl contacted me awhile back asking if I'd like to participate with her and some other blogger friends in a "Surprise Recipe Swap". 

Each month we are assigned a different blog to choose a recipe from, then we cook it, and post about on our blog. I was super excited to participate and couldn't wait to get started.

This month I was matched up with Jutta and her awesome blog, Hungry Little Girl.

I just love browsing through her recipes and after much consideration, I ended up choosing her recipe for Korean Ground Beef Lettuce Wraps!

Let me say, I absolutely loved this recipe and was so glad I tried it.

The flavors were delicious and it is such a quick and easy meal. I love that the ground beef and rice are wrapped up in the lettuce leaf. The lettuce adds such a perfect crunch when biting into it!

We also love eating it as a rice bowl served with some thinly sliced carrots, cucumber and a fried over easy egg on top! Such deliciousness!

What is in ground beef lettuce wraps?

• Ground beef: One of my absolute favorite meats to use in recipes! I buy 90% lean ground beef in bulk at Sam's Club, then package into one pound packages with freezer paper for our meals!

• Garlic: My love for garlic is real. I use it in almost everything I cook and I love the health benefits it offers. Garlic is part of the onion, leek and chive family. It's great for heart health and contains many vitamins and minerals.

• Fresh ginger: You don't need much of this amazing ingredient to add some delicious flavor! I love the health benefits including reducing nausea, reducing muscle pain and soreness and helping with loss of appetite. It's great in sweet or savory dishes. Find out how to peel, chop and grate ginger here!

• Sesame oil: This edible oil is made from sesame seeds. It has a very distinctive nutty aroma, it's delicious and it's a healthy fat. Tanzania is the world's leading producer of this type of oil. 

Other delicious ground beef recipes you may like:

• Ground Beef Broccoli Pie with Crescent Roll Crust
• Sweet Potato Beefy Shepard's Pie
• Easy Chili Mac
• Mom's Sloppy Joes
• Ground Beef and Veggies with Garlic Seasoned Potatoes
• Easy Beef Empanadas

This recipe is ready in these steps:

• In a skillet, brown the ground beef and garlic until beef is no longer pink
• Reduce heat to medium 
• Add the sesame oil, chili powder, brown sugar, ginger, soy sauce and black pepper 
• Simmer until liquid is absorbed 
• Serve with the rice rolled inside the lettuce leaves and green onions sprinkled on top

Full recipe below

You can add or substitute with the following ingredients:

• ground turkey
• sesame seeds on top
• chopped cilantro
• sriracha drizzled on top
• ground chicken
• fried egg on top
• shredded carrots on top
• thinly sliced cucumber on top
• finely diced jalapeno 

Looking for more recipes using white rice?

• Buttery Lemon Garlic Rice
• Shrimp Pineapple Fried Rice
• Rice Pilaf with Orzo
• Garlic Fried Rice
• Blueberry Rice Pudding
• Pineapple Coconut Rice

Things you may need for this recipe:

• Soap Dispensing Dish Brush
• My Favorite Cutting Boards
• Rice Cooker

On this day in blog history....

One year ago

• Instant Mexican Rice

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we did!


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Korean Ground Beef Lettuce Wraps

Yield: 6 servings

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ingredients:

• 1 pound lean ground beef
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 3 green onions, sliced
• cooked white rice
• lettuce leaves

instructions:

1. In a large skillet, brown the ground beef and garlic over medium high heat until beef is no longer pink.
2. Reduce heat to medium. Add the sesame oil, chili powder, brown sugar, ginger, soy sauce and black pepper. Simmer for 5-7 minutes or until liquid is absorbed. 
3. Serve the beef with the rice rolled inside the lettuce leaves. Sprinkle green onions on top.

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What readers are saying about this recipe:

• Lara- Love these. I use ground turkey.


• Christine- Go splurge on the $7 bottle of sesame oil so you make this.  It was so easy and tasted wonderful in hearts of romaine lettuce.

• Chelsea- Amazing! The meat had a really authentic Korean flavor.

• Ellen- Thought it was too sweet until wrapped in lettuce ... perfect! Great flavor : )

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