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Spicy Thai Pineapple Lettuce Wraps Recipe


Spicy Thai Pineapple Lettuce Wraps Recipe
This recipe is from FoodNetwork.com

Jena

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Ingredients
  • 2 limes, juiced (about 1⁄4 cup)
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 2 teaspoons chili paste, such as sambal oelek. Sambals are potent Indonesian condiments packed with chiles. There are different kinds, but the slightly tangy sambal oelek is a blend of hot red chiles, salt, vinegar or tamarind, and sometimes garlic. Other Asian chile pastes are suitable substitutes.
  • 2 teaspoons fish sauce
  • 2 cups roasted peanuts or cashews, roughly chopped. It is important to chop the nuts by hand—not in a food processor. Machine-chopped nuts will be overworked and pasty. The dish is so much better when the nuts have a distinct texture.
  • 2/3 cup roughly chopped fresh cilantro (leaves and stems)
  • 12 Bibb lettuce leaves (about 1 head)
  • Half a medium fresh pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into bite-size chunks (about 3 cups)
  • Kosher salt

Directions
  1. Whisk the lime juice, sugar, chile paste, and fish sauce in a bowl until the sugar dissolves. Add the peanuts and cilantro and stir until evenly dressed with the sauce.
  2. When ready to serve, arrange the lettuce leaves on a large platter.
  3. Put about 1⁄4 cup of pineapple in each leaf and season with salt to taste.
  4. Top the pineapple with the nut mixture.
  5. Serve, letting your guests wrap (or fold) each lettuce leaf to enclose the filling.

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Comments


Wow - Jena brought these to a party this past weekend and I was fortunate to have an opportunity to give them a try. I give them the conservative rating of SUPER DUPER FABULOUS ;-)

The version that she brought had a vegetarian-friendly fish sauce substitute - and cashews rather than peanuts. I'm sure the alternate version would also be splendid. Thanks Jena!


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