Your favorite greens are also perfect for wraps, cups, and bowls. But not all greens are created equal. Follow these rules when choosing your lettuce, and read on for inspiration on how to wrap, fill, and devour everything from crispy Thai-style pork to bunless veggie burgers. The best greens for edible cups are sturdy head lettuces with thick ribs on each leaf. Examples include iceberg, bibb, Boston, and little gem. Each leaf should be deep enough to hold the filling, and hardy enough not to wilt with heavy or warm additions.
Pass on floppy, thin, or wilty lettuces. As for what you can put in your lettuce cups: Keep it simple, keep it light, and keep the liquid to a minimum. Avoid things that are very liquidy uh, obviously no soup , and don't overfill. Check out these ideas for inspiration. Boneless, skinless chicken breast gets a huge hit of flavor from chiles, garlic, and fish sauce.
Cool down the heat by piling it in refreshing lettuce cups. It has a slight sweetness and a little bitterness. Its taste is neutral enough to go with any filling. Unlike iceberg lettuce, which requires more effort to separate the leaves, butter lettuce is fairly easy to handle. When picking butter lettuce for wraps, we highly recommend you buy whole-head lettuce. Skip on double or triple-washed lettuce leaves sold in plastic bags.
There is nothing wrong with pre-washed lettuce leaves. However, nothing compares to the freshness of the leaves still attached to the core. Pay attention to the color. If your goal is to make lettuce wraps, you also need to make sure that the leaves are firm and have their shape. The outer leaves may be slightly damaged. But make sure not all of the big outer leaves are torn or have holes in them.
To make good-sized lettuce wraps you will need the larger leaves which are the outer ones. When making a dish using butter lettuce, it is recommended to buy the lettuce not earlier than a day before.
Follow these steps to prepare butter lettuce for lettuce wraps and store them in the fridge for later use. Butter lettuce may sometimes be hard to find. Lettuce wraps, as such, are quite versatile when it comes to both filling and the lettuce itself.
The leaves are nicely shaped to make the wrap. They are also sturdy to hold the filling. Iceberg lettuce, unlike the soft butter lettuce, has a crunch to it. So, if you are looking for a lettuce variety that would add little taste but a lot of crisp to the wraps, then iceberg lettuce it is.
Romaine lettuce leaves are narrow in comparison to iceberg or butter lettuce. However, you can use the outer leaves that are larger to make lettuce wraps.
The thicker ribs may snap when folding the leaves. But still, romaine lettuce is a good choice considering taste and crispiness. Baby gem lettuce is a perfect choice if you want to make mini-sized lettuce wraps. Baby gem leaves are durable and make a nice lettuce cup. With baby gem, you can serve the filling separately surrounded by the lettuce leaves to serve as cups. Once you choose the right kind of lettuce for making wraps, you may stumble across a question.
What can you put in them? Did you know there are about 15 different types of lettuce? Here are our favorite 3 greens that are best for lettuce wraps:.
Need something to stand up to a hearty or saucy filling? It also has a natural concave shape so it wraps around easily making the trip from the plate to your mouth less messy!
Similar to butter lettuce, its leaves are already curved so rolling it up as wrap is a cinch.
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