Based on a popular Chinese dish, these fun wraps also make appealing appetizers for entertaining. Make it a meal: Serve with chile-garlic sauce and rice vinegar for extra zip; toss diced mango and strawberries with lime juice for a quick dessert.
Course Main Course
Keyword Entertaining
Prep Time 5 hourshours30 minutesminutes
Total Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 4(click to scale)
Calories 286kcal
Ingredients
1/2cupwater
1/2cupinstant brown rice
2teaspoonssesame oil
1poundlean ground turkey93%
1Tbspfresh ginger rootminced
1large red bell pepperfinely diced
8ozchestnutsrinsed and chopped
1/2cupreduced-sodium chicken broth
2Tbsphoisin sauce
1teaspoonfive-spice powder
1/2teaspoonsalt
2headsBoston lettuceleaves separated
1/2cupfresh herbschopped, such as cilantro, basil, mint and/or chives
1fresh carrotshredded
Instructions
Bring water to a boil in a small saucepan. Add rice; reduce heat to low, cover and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat.
Meanwhile, heat oil in a large nonstick pan over medium-high heat. Mince ginger. Add turkey and ginger; cook, crumbling with a wooden spoon, until the turkey is cooked through, about 6 minutes. Stir in the cooked rice, bell pepper, water chestnuts, broth, hoisin sauce, five-spice powder and salt; cook until heated through, about 1 minute.
To serve, spoon portions of the turkey mixture into lettuce leaves, top with herbs and carrot and roll into wraps.
Notes
Hoisin sauce is a spicy, sweet sauce made from soybeans, chiles, garlic and spices. It will keep in the refrigerator for at least a year. Often a blend of cinnamon, cloves, fennel seed, star anise and Szechuan peppercorns, five-spice powder was originally considered a cure-all miracle blend encompassing the five elements (sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, salty). Look for it in the supermarket spice section.