THAI Lettuce Wraps!

[walnutty]

I have been wanting to make these forever and up popped a recipe today on raw food recipes dot com, so I thought I'd share!

http://www.rawfoodrecipes.com/recipes/thai-lettuce-wraps1.html



Description

An awesome delicious raw food creation. Super easy and anyone can easily eat this for any meal. Thank Diana Stobo for this tasteful dish.




Ingredients


1 1/2 cups Walnuts

1/2 cup celery, diced

1/2 cup diced carrots

1/2 red bell pepper, diced

1/2 cup fresh Cilantro,minced

1/4 cup Scallions, minced (greens only)


Sauce:

1/4 cup raw wild honey

1/8 cup Nama Shoyu

½ teaspoon fresh garlic, minced

1 teaspoons fresh ginger, grated

1 Tablespoons hulled sesame seeds

1 Tablespoons Sesame Oil

1 teaspoons red pepper flakes

Garnish:

1 head of Lettuce, Butter, Bib, or Romaine

Mung Bean sprouts

Carrot, grated


Methods/steps

Gently pull apart lettuce leaves, wash and let dry on paper towel

Prepare the sauce in a food processor fitted with an s-blade by adding all ingredients and pulsing 3-4 times.

Add walnuts to the processor and pulse 4-5 times until meat of walnut is the consistency of ground meat.

Add vegetables to processor and pulse 3-4 more times until all ingredients are incorporated.

Place 2-3 lettuce leaves on plate, scoop 2-3 tablespoons of walnut meat mixture in to leaf.

Garnish with Mung Beans, and grated carrot

[DebB]

Wow walnutty - those are making my mouth water just reading the recipe! Thanks for the share :)

[DebB]

((And not to detract from the recipe you shared, but I really did want to let you know. You obviously like Thai, so this is a salad we are CRAZY about! Even non-raw-fooders love it! Thai Coleslaw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQa5xk03iMU&feature=autoplay&list=ULStHVw0EuMUQ&index=2&playnext=1 ))

[walnutty]

Thanks, DebB!

Bumping this recipe because it looks so good...they both do!

[fastfreedom]

Wow, thanks for the bump... I seem to recall the post from a little while back but never made the dish......It has definitely got my salivary glands going..... :-)

[fastfreedom]

Delicioso! Just filled myself on the wraps. Thank you very much for the bump. :-)

[walnutty]

fastfreedom,

Did you blend the sauce and the "meat" mixture? Or did you put the "meat" mixture into the lettuce and then drizzle the sauce on top? The recipe is a little confusing on what to do.

Thanks!

[fastfreedom]

Yeah, I blended the "meat" mixture and the sauce as one with the veggies. I imagine that this will become one of my go-to meals.

[walnutty]

Yeah, I blended the "meat" mixture and the sauce as one with the veggies. I imagine that this will become one of my go-to meals.


Excellent! Thank you!

Time to go shopping!

[walnutty]

I finally made these and they were just okay. I did find out I do not like mung bean sprouts...yeck, blech.

I also think that it would taste better as a pate then left chunky and am going to try it that way next time and put it on living/butter lettuce.

One other thing, I think it would taste just fine with organic, raw sunflower seeds rather than walnuts. Raw, organic walnuts are SO expensive.

I'll make it with the SF seeds next time and report back!

[MysticTree]

were the mung beans home sprouted or shop bought? The shop bought bean sprouts are mung beans but often home sprouted ones are less successful it seems.

Try radish sprouts instead. Awesome :)

[fastfreedom]

I suppose I did leave out the mung bean sprouts and the grated carrot. And I noticed that the salty nama shoyu or braggs goes a long way so you can go a little lighter on it and add if needed. I also probably added a little more honey than recommended I just took an eating spoon that is roughly a TBS and took four scoops of honey, so it was probably more than the recipe called for.

[donnyandcathy]

Deb, can you give me the recipe for the "Thai Coleslaw" that was with your link above.
I watched the video, but couldn't find the recipe.
I have really been craving something like this.
THANK YOU!!!
Cathy

[walnutty]

Cathy,

Try this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbWSaW9i0ZA&feature=plcp

[donnyandcathy]

Yes, that one has the recipe!!
Thank you Walnutty!!

[MysticTree]

I really fancy something like this but without electricity the processor won't work. Looked at getting hand powered blender but too pricey for us at the moment.

[fastfreedom]

I would bet it could be done without the food processor. I think it just makes it easier and quicker. You could just chop everything up with a knife if you wanted to. Or if you have one of those veggie choppers like this, http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/1939016/?catalogId=70&bnrid=3120901&cm_ven=Google_PLA&cm_cat=Cooks_Tools&cm_pla=Fruit_Vegetable_Tools&cm_ite=OXO_Vegetable_Chopper&adtype=pla, it would probably be much easier than with a knife. Then just follow the steps of mixing and use a bowl.

[MysticTree]

a very big pestle and mortar would be handy too.