Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, tuna lettuce wraps. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
These are a low-calorie, low-carb, but very tasty, light alternative to a tuna wrap sandwich! Try to choose larger leaves of lettuce with no tears or holes; lettuce leaves are replacing the tortilla in a traditional wrap sandwich. Cheese is optional, but even a little adds a lot of flavor.
Tuna Lettuce Wraps is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Tuna Lettuce Wraps is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tuna lettuce wraps using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Tuna Lettuce Wraps:
- Take 8 oz fresh tuna
- Prepare 1 vegetable oil for frying
- Make ready 12 each wonton wrappers, Julliene
- Make ready 1 each Boston bib lettuce heads
- Prepare 1 oz toasted sesame seed oil
- Make ready 1 each Jalapeño shaved
- Make ready salt
- Prepare Sriracha hot sauce
It is important to use lettuce with some stiffness as the lettuce leaves in this case will play the role of the wrap, or "boat" if you like. want to assemble and eat the wraps. To make these Tuna Salad Lettuce Wraps, I added finely chopped purple cabbage, celery, green onions, and shredded carrots. This is a great way to boost the veggie content in your diet while providing a little more interest and crunch factor to the salad. The tuna salad begins with a mixture of albacore tuna, mayo (can be replaced with sour-cream, Greek yogurt, or mashed avocado), sriracha, onion and celery.
Steps to make Tuna Lettuce Wraps:
- Preheat vegetable oil at 375°F
- Fry the wonton until crispy about a minute, put in a bowl and toss with sesame oil and salt
- Separate the leafs from the lettuce, rinse and spread them on a serving dish
- Place the wonton threads on the lettuce cups
- cut the Tuna in half oz pieces and place on top of the wonton, top with the shaved jalapeños and a dot of sriracha
Mix the tuna salad until creamy. Next, place or "wrap" the mixture into fresh lettuce leaves. You can use romaine, butter, iceberg, or any type of green leaf lettuce. I picked up a couple of Bumble Bee ® Premium Albacore Tuna in Water pouches and they were my inspiration for my Mediterranean Tuna Lettuce Wraps. I combined Bumble Bee ® Premium Albacore Tuna in Water, kalamata olives, feta cheese, bell peppers, red onion, tomatoes, fresh mint and chickpeas in a lemon dijon vinaigrette.
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