This Asian-inspired recipe contains ground pork and a velvety peanut sauce (made with the very same peanut butter that you use to make PB&J sandwiches when no one's looking) accentuated with sharp ginger, lime juice, and fresh herbs. Wrapped up in crispy lettuce, these cups can be eaten like tacos.
Ingredients
4 Servings
Step 1
1. In a small bowl, whisk together the peanut butter, sugar, soy sauce, lime juice and zest, ginger, vinegar, fish sauce, and sriracha until smooth.
Step 2
2. Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add the scallions and cook until softened, about 2 minutes. Add the pork and cook, breaking up with a wooden spoon, until no longer pink, 8 to 10 minutes. Add the peanut butter mixture and cook, stirring until absorbed, about 3 minutes. Stir in the quinoa and quinoa puffs. Adjust the seasoning with soy sauce, fish sauce, and sriracha.
Step 3
3. Stir in the cilantro and pea shoots and sprinkle with peanuts.
Step 4
4. Scoop the pork mixture into the lettuce leaves. Serve with lime wedges and sriracha.
Recipe fromThe Quinoa [Keen-Wah] Cookbook, by Maria del Mar Sacasa, Copyright © 2015, published by HarperWave.
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Reviews (5)
Back to TopA lot of flavor. I made it with ground turkey, unsalted peanuts, low sodium soy, left out the quinoa puffs, added mushrooms towards the end and served it over salad with avocado. Cold leftovers the for lunch in a spinach wrap tortilla was also delicious.
Anonymous
Napa, CA
2/11/2017
我们家喜欢这道菜。我没有使用quinoa puffs and used unsalted peanuts. The appearance and texture of the dish was very appealing. You could even put the pork mixture on top of a salad instead of using the lettuce cups.
hart3
Seattle, WA
6/24/2016
Yummy and easy if you buy the quinoa puffs. I didn't find it too salty, in fact I added a tad more soya sauce and siracha at the end as the recipe suggested. You could also up the amount of pea shoots and add other veggies (mushrooms?) if you wanted.
janeandrea
Toronto
7/22/2015
Really tasty. Made as stated except I didn't have time to pop quinoa puffs. Adults liked it (the children cried, but they're incredibly picky and hate trying new things ;-). I thought it was a bit too salty. Next time I will try unsalted peanuts or cut back a bit on the soy/fish sauce. Overall, great meal for a hot night.
joolieboo
Northborough, MA
7/21/2015
Delicious! Used homemade peanut butter made with just peanuts and a pinch of Maldon salt, so used the blender and needed to add a little honey to compensate. Folded in some grated carrots instead of pea shoots, it being a cold day in January and didn’t want to make a special trip to the store. A very nice change from heavy holiday fare.
Valerie
Victoria, BC, Canada
1/7/2023
