Beef Lettuce Wraps with Pickled Jalapeños
Ingredients
For the Pickled Jalapeños
- 8 large Jalapenos sliced
- ½ cup white vinegar
- ½ cup water
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
For the Beef Wraps:
- 6 leaves iceberg Lettuce
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup grated carrots
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Salt and pepper
- Fresh cilantro, chopped
- Diced avocado for serving
- Red onion, sliced for serving
- Grape tomatoes, quarter for serving
Instructions
- To pickle de jalapeños: In a small pot place the water, vinegar, sugar and salt.
- Bring to a boil and add the jalapeños. Remove the from the stove and set a side for about 10 minutes.
- lace the jalapenos and liquid into a jar. Let them cool at room temperature.
- To make the wraps: In a sauce pan heat oil and add the onion, carrots and garlic and cook for about 5 minutes over medium heat.
- Add the cumin and mix well. Add the ground beef and cook until it is cooked through, stirring often.
- Season with salt and pepper. Add chopped fresh cilantro. Place about 3 tablespoons of the filling in each lettuce and top with the pickled jalapeños, red onion, tomatoes and avocado.
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The theme for this months Creative Cooking Crew challenge was: Pickle it! We had to pickle an ingredient and incorporate it in a complete dish.
I decided to pickle one of my favorite Latin ingredients, Jalapeños!And for the complete dish, I made Beef Lettuce Wraps with Pickled Jalapeños.
I love this dish because it is very versatile and flavorful. You can make it with shrimp, chicken, turkey, crab meat, fish or even tofu for a vegetarian version.
Buen provecho!
Juliana
The beef wrap sure sounds and looks mouthwatering...like the pickled jalapenos...they sure give this wrap a nice kick.
Hope you have a great week Erica 😀
Belinda @zomppa
I love lettuce wraps - always so refreshing!
Shannon
those look absolutely delicious. I've got a ton of peppers from my csa, and now I know what to do with them!
Velva
This looks great! I have been pickling all summer and I have a ton of jalapeños. This really got my attention.
Velva
Joan Nova
Looks delicious Erica -- I'm a big fan of lettuce wraps and I think pickled jalapenos are a great accompaniment (and the avocado too!)
Angie@Angie's Recipes
Love lettuce wraps! This looks so delectable.
Jeannie Tay
I love eating the pickled jalapeno with noodles, great idea to use on wraps too!
grace
what a colorful and delicious filling! i'd like to shake the hand of the first person who ever filled a lettuce leaf with goodies. 🙂
Joanne
I have a jar of pickled jalapenos in the fridge and I'm thinking lettuce wraps is definitely going to be how I use them up! So impressed that you pickled them yourself!
Evelyne@cheapethniceatz
These wraps look delicious and I love your pickled jalapeno. I do not eat them often so I usually loose the extra ones I have. Now I can preserve them.
Norma - Platanos, Mangoes and Me!
Hot and spicy and great pictures.
Victoria
Great minds think alike! I pickled jalapenos as well. These wraps are a great way to feature them!
christo
Pickled jalapeños always remind me of being a teenager in New Mexico going to this place called Chelsea Pub and ordering iced tea and nachos with extra jalapeños - we felt so grown up
deana
When I had a vegetable garden, making pickled jalapenos was one of my favorite things... then I would have plenty to eat all year long on EVERYTHING because they were so good. I always pickled the whole pepper and never tried slicing it... lovely idea and they look marvelous with the lettuce wraps.
Lori Lynn
Wow Erica! Such beautiful colorful tasty spicy wraps! I want one right now! Great idea to pickle jalapenos for the CCC pickle event...
Lori Lynn
Maureen C. Berry
Those wraps look delicious. I should know better than to cruise the CCC round-up during lunchtime! The photos are bursting with color-so fresh. Nicely done.
Chris
I really like the quick pickling technique, I'll be using that for other things too.
Jenn and Seth
your wraps look fantastic and I love the pickled jalapenos! such a tasty dish and looks so wonderfully colorful!