A delicious and easy appetizer, lettuce wraps with Lightlife Original Smart Ground Crumbles!
This post is sponsored by Lightlife Foods. Lettuce Wraps have been around forever, I'm used to seeing them on the menu at P.F. Chang's and they're pretty darn tasty not to mention super simple to put together!
There's something satisfying about eating food wrapped in lettuce leaves. Maybe it's the fact that it's way healthier than anything else, or that the In-N-Out protein burger is wrapped in crispy iceberg lettuce too!
With just a few ingredients you can make these at home and serve them up for dinner (I could probably eat 4 or 5) or they make a great appetizer for a summer party!
The twist with my lettuce wraps is that they're vegetarian and I bet you'd never know! Instead of using ground beef or chicken, I made them with Lightlife's Smart Ground Original Crumbles, which are completely plant-based.
Vegetarian, vegan and loaded with protein, Smart Ground can easily take the place of ground beef for anything from lasagna to tacos! This way I get my daily protein boost, they're low carb and stuffed with yellow and green zucchini as well as eggplant.
It's a total healthy win-win all around! If you haven't tried Lightlife's Smart Ground Original Crumbles, then what's up with that? They're so good, I almost like them better than regular ground beef, which is much more greasy.
The Smart Ground Original Crumbles are tossed in a light orange and soy ginger sauce and served on butter lettuce which is always the best lettuce for lettuce wraps because it rolls up so easily compared to other types of lettuce that usually break when you roll them up.
You can make your lettuce wraps as mild or as spicy as you like. The sauce is completely mild so I added some sliced red jalapeno which for the record is way hotter than a regular green jalapeno, trust me on that one! I also added shredded carrots and green onions.
I kept the sauce loose enough so that the lettuce isn't weighed down and starts to tear.
