Cascading Kitchen Notes
Notes
Uses our beautiful lettuce, zucchini, broccoli, carrots and week sevens' green onions, if you have any remaining.
Lettuce Wraps with Peanut Sauce
The Sauce
In 3 Tbs coconut oil (or other oil) sauté:
- 2 jalapenos-seeded and minced (unless you like less heat)
- 4-5 cloves garlic-minced
- 1 onion-finely diced
After 3-4 minutes add:
- 1 can coconut milk, unsweetened (about 1.5 cups)
- ½ cup peanut butter, creamy is best
- 2-3 Tbs freshly grated ginger
- 1 Tb honey
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- Juice from 1 lime
- optional, 2 Tb sesame seed oil
For a creamy sauce with no texture run the immersion blender through the peanut sauce for a minute.
Simmer on low for 5 minutes. Don't allow it to boil.
Cool sauce.
Vegetable Mixture:
- 2 carrots-julienned
- 6 green onions-slivered lengthwise and crosscut into 2 inch pieces
- 1 bunch cilantro-chopped
- 1 med summer squash, peeled and seeded-julienned
- 1 kohlrabi- julienned
- Broccoli or cauliflower-chopped
Fill a nice large lettuce leaf with:
- 1/3 cup veggie mix
- 3-4 strands of cooked rice noodles
- 1-2 Tbs peanut sauce
- Squeeze a bit of fresh lime over all