Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Lettuce Boats

Lettuce Boats.

You can cook Lettuce Boats using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lettuce Boats

1. Prepare 1 pound of ground pork.
2. You need 1 of small onion, finely chopped.
3. You need 3 of garlic cloves, finely minced.
4. You need 1/4 cup of hoisin sauce.
5. It's 2 tablespoons of soy sauce.
6. Prepare 2 tablespoons of seasoned rice vinegar.
7. It's 1 tablespoon of fresh grated ginger (OR 1 tsp. powered ginger).
8. Prepare 1 dash of sriracha hot pepper sauce (go easy with this!).
9. Prepare 1 (6 oz.) of can water chestnuts, drained and minced.
10. It's leaves of Romaine lettuce.
11. You need of minced green onions for garnish (optional).

Lettuce Boats step by step

1. In large skillet over medium high heat, cook the onion and ground pork until pork is no longer pink, about 6 minutes. While cooking, use your spoon to break up the pork into small pieces, pea-size or smaller..
2. Add the minced garlic to the meat and cook another minute..
3. Add the hoisin sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, ginger and sriracha sauce (just a small dash!) and stir well. Reduce heat to medium and stir in the diced water chestnuts. Cook another 2 minutes to heat everything through..
4. I like to serve by dishing up the meat mixture in individual bowls, sprinkled with minced green onions; give everyone a teaspoon so they can fill their lettuce leaves one at a time as they eat them. You eat these similar to how you eat a taco; finger food..
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