Hoisin Turkey Lettuce Wrap Recipe

Try this flavourful and quick weekday meal idea

lettuce wraps recipe with hoisin sauce

This recipe for turkey lettuce wraps is a simple speedy meal you and you family will love. Try it during the week or as a ‘Finger Food Friday’ theme. Feel free to add more or less of the hoisin sauce based on your family food preference.

Makes 6 Servings

What you Need:

  • 1 pound (500 g) ground turkey (you can also use ground chicken or pork)
  • 1 small onion (1/2 cup), diced
  • 2 red, orange, or yellow sweet bell peppers, diced
  • 2 cups cooked lentils or 1 can (540 ml or 19 fl oz) canned lentils, drained and rinsed
  • 1/2 cup hoisin sauce*
  • 12 or more butter lettuce leaves (or small Romaine or leaf lettuce leaves)

How to Make the Asian Turkey Lettuce Wraps

  1. Sauté the ground turkey (or ground chicken or pork) with onion until cooked. Add peppers and lentils and cook until peppers are soft. Add hoisin sauce.
  2. Add a scoop of the warm turkey lentil mixture to a lettuce leaf and enjoy fresh, assembling one by one at the table.

*If you are looking for a homemade hoisin sauce recipe rather than a commercial one you can also try this recipe on our blog here: Easy Handmade Hoisin Sauce

Nutrients per serving:

271 Calories
27 g Carbohydrates
23 g Protein
7.4 g Fat
4.0 g Fibre

We hope you loved this recipe for our Hoisin Turkey Lettuce Wraps! Let us know in the comments some of your favourite ‘Finger Food Friday’ meal themes or other ways you’ve made lettuce wraps.

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