Lettuce wraps are your perfect healthy fast food! You can use fajita meat, sliced chicken breasts, grilled shrimp or fish, carnitas, sausage and eggs or even leftover tuna or chicken salad!
Normally, a taquito is made with corn and wrapped into a tight “flute” shape (a flauta, which means “flute,” is similar, but it’s made with a flour tortilla instead).
Our version is low-carb and uses lettuce instead of a tortilla to hold all that yummy protein and spicy goodness!!
Spicy Beef Tomatillo Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lb. grass-fed beef stew meat
- 1 T. avocado oil or lard
- 1 white onion
- 1 head of garlic
- 3/4 lb. tomatillos, husked and quartered
- 2-3 diced jalapenos
- 1 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 3 T. ground cumin
- 2-3 tsp. sea salt
- 2-3 tsp. black pepper to taste
- 1 tsp. oregano
- 1 tsp. curry
- 3 T. freshly squeezed lime juice
- Lettuce Cups (or organic corn tortillas if not keto)
- Avocado Oil for frying
- Tomatoes, cilantro, diced onions, and sour cream for garnishing
- Salsa
Instructions
- Brown stew meat. Add the onions, garlic, jalapenos, and tomatillos. Add the spices, 2 cups of water, salt, and pepper.
- Bring to a boil and then lower to a simmer uncovered for 2 hours until meat is tender. (Or for a fast and easy dinner, use the meat setting on your InstantPot – you can still easily saute’ it and cook it all in one pot – just faster). Remove beef from the pot, shred it, and then toss it with pan juices and lime juice. Taste and adjust seasoning as needed.
- Serve immediately in lettuce cups with salsa, chopped cilantro, onion, pico de guillo, or pineapple.
