Easy Sweet and Spicy Ground Turkey Lettuce Wraps
Easy Sweet and Spicy Ground Turkey Lettuce Wraps
These Ground Turkey Lettuce Wraps are sweet, spicy and so delicious! Easy and ready in less than 1 hour. Add your favourite toppings.
40 minutes
6
If you’re looking for a fun, delicious and healthy meal idea that everyone will love, these Easy Sweet and Spicy Ground Turkey Lettuce Wraps are it! This versatile recipe is fresh and tasty.
A quick recipe overview:
About these turkey lettuce wraps:
I call these lettuce wraps but really they’re lettuce cups! The crisp lettuce ‘cups’ are used to hold a delicious sweet and spicy mixture of cooked ground turkey and yummy toppings. You eat them with your hands, so they’re fun and a little messy haha!
How to eat these lettuce wraps:
Interactive dinners like this are always a big hit in our home, they’re fun, easy enough for busy weeknights but also great for weekends! I set out all of the prepared ingredients and toppings on the table and let everyone make their own wraps. Start with a lettuce leaf, add a generous spoonful or two of the turkey mixture, sprinkle with cilantro, green onion, and peanuts, then drizzle with the sriracha/mayo mix. Or however you like to do it!
Turkey Lettuce Wrap Recipe Tips
- TURKEY: Use ground turkey or ground chicken. This recipe can also be made with ground beef or ground pork.
- LETTUCE: You can use any type of lettuce that will hold the turkey filling in the lettuce cups. We like romaine lettuce or iceberg lettuce because they’re nice and crunchy, but you can also use butter lettuce (Bibb lettuce) which has nice ‘cup’ structure. The best lettuce is one that will hold the filling.
- BELL PEPPERS: Use any type of pepper: red pepper, orange or yellow.
- MAYO: The spicy mayo in this recipe is made with kewpie mayo but you can use regular mayonnaise.
- PEANUTS: The chopped peanuts add a nice little crunch, but adding them is optional.
- TOPPINGS: You can add chopped fresh cilantro, green onion, peanuts, red pepper flakes for more spice, chow mein noodles or even cooked rice.
- PEANUT SAUCE: Sometimes I’ll make the peanut sauce from this recipe to serve on the side as well. It’s SO good.
- LEFTOVERS: Store any leftover cooked ground turkey in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 or 3 days. Just reheat and make new wraps for lunch!
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Easy Sweet and Spicy Ground Turkey Lettuce Wraps
These Ground Turkey Lettuce Wraps are sweet, spicy and so delicious! Easy and ready in less than 1 hour. Add your favourite toppings.
Ingredients
Sauce
- 3/4 cup Hoisin sauce
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp soy sauce (can use low sodium soy sauce)
- 1 tbsp liquid honey (or brown sugar)
- 1 tbsp sriracha
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
Ground Turkey Mixture
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 1/2 lbs lean ground turkey (or chicken)
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 tbsp minced fresh ginger
- 1 bell pepper chopped
- 1 small onion chopped
Spicy Mayo Dressing:
- 2 tbsp kewpie mayo
- 2 tbsp sriracha
Wrap and Toppings:
- 1 head lettuce (iceberg, romaine, butter) separated into whole leaves
- handful fresh cilantro
- 3 green onions sliced
- 1/2 cup chopped peanuts toasted if you like
Instructions
Make the hoisin sauce mixture first:
- In a small saucepan combine the hoisin sauce, rice vinegar, soy sauce, honey, sriracha, sesame oil, and lime juice. Over low heat stir and cook until well blended, then remove from the heat and set aside.3/4 cup Hoisin sauce, 2 tbsp rice vinegar, 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp liquid honey, 1 tbsp sriracha, 1 tsp sesame oil, 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
Cooking the turkey:
- In a large skillet over low-medium heat, warm up about 1 tbsp of oil then add the ground turkey, minced garlic and ginger.1 tbsp oil, 1 1/2 lbs lean ground turkey (or chicken), 1 clove garlic, 1 tbsp minced fresh ginger
- Cook until the meat is no longer pink and the moisture is gone (you may have to drain it).
- Add the chopped bell pepper, onion, and the sauce you made, to the ground turkey mixture. Stir and cook for about 3-4 minutes, or until the vegetables are cooked but still kind of crunchy.1 bell pepper, 1 small onion
Sriracha Mayo Sauce:
- In a small bowl mix together the kewpie mayo and sriracha sauce.2 tbsp kewpie mayo, 2 tbsp sriracha
Putting it all together:
- In separate bowls set out the lettuce leaves, cooked ground turkey mixture, chopped peanuts, chopped cilantro, sliced onions, sriracha/mayo sauce and any other toppings you would like.1 head lettuce (iceberg, romaine, butter), handful fresh cilantro, 3 green onions, 1/2 cup chopped peanuts
- Let everyone put together their own wrap: start with a lettuce cup, add a generous spoonful or two of the turkey mixture, sprinkle with cilantro, green onion, and peanuts, then drizzle with the sriracha/mayo mix.
- Enjoy!
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Those look soo good! I’ve actually made a very similar recipe for turkey lettuce wraps. The recipe I used called for orange marmalade. They were very tasty. And yes, very messy to eat! I’ll have to try yours, my little girl didn’t really like the ‘orangey sauce’. haha
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Love your blog and have tried a few of your recipes. Can’t wait to try this turkey one as well!
I make individual sized turkey meatloves all the time. They cook in half the time and are so tasty.
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turkey meatballs….turkey soup…these wraps look awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to try them!!
I made a Turkey Egg White Strata on the weekend, it was really good. I also made this awesome Turkey Meatloaf the weekend before. Also extra awesome.
Made these last night for the family. We had to fight over the leftovers today. Awesome recipe. I have made many lettuce wrap recipes but these are by far my favorite. I will double the sauce recipe next time. Thanks for the wonderful recipe!
Delicious and fresh dinner idea! Similar to our Mu Shu Turkey recipe! We love it!