Hey guys this is Heather from Healthyveganrecipes.net.
Today, I’m going to share to you my easy
lettuce wrap recipe. A lot of you asking what
Phil and I eat on a typical day and the answer
are pretty simple.
We usually have some oatmeal or another grain
for breakfast, and then we had a green smoothie
and something else for lunch, and then for
dinner one of the many recipes I shared with
you guys.
So, what I thought I would show today was
a little bit different – an easy lettuce
wrap recipe. It’s just a quick simple lunch
that Phil and I are enjoying lately.
For those of you who was skipped ahead for
the recipe, I’ll post that over at healthyveganrecipes.net
and, now I will show you how to put this together.
So, to start you need a lettuce leaf that
was going to wrap up nicely, so I’ve got
some big leaves here. It’s always nice to
have something a little bit more substantial
in your salad or wraps.
I got some chickpeas here that I soaked and
then sprouted. I don’t know if you can see
any of a little tails, but makes too much
more digestible and then I cooked them and
I got them marinating here.
In a really simple dressing of lemon juice,
pressed garlic and some sea salt with kelp
in it. I’ve been writing on my nutrition
blog at healthyeatingstartshere.com about
the benefits of minimizing oil and using whole
food forms of fat instead.
This is just an example of how you can make
a salad with a nice dressing and no oil. Its
helpful to let the chickpeas marinate like
this for a little while, you can even do this
a night before put this on a fridge overnight
it will be so delicious in the morning.
For vegetables, I’ve got some green onions
that I chopped right here and ready to go
and I got some carrot, zucchini and green
pepper. You can use whether vegetables combo
you like in here.
Its amazing how just being simple salad ingredients
put in a different form, wrap them up in a
lettuce leaf and its so much more fun - totally
different experience.
Now I find taking this for a mobile lunch
or like for work or a picnic or something.
I probably cut everything up, assemble it
and take is separately and arrange it together
on the spot, because the lettuce will probably
wilt once the lemon juice hits it – probably
it wont stay put very well.
I want to warn you that this is a little bit
of a messy meal but that makes it fun. To
assemble, you just got to take you lettuce
leaf, lay it out flat on the plate, drop some
chickpeas on there – it also very nice to
do a bean spread in this because it’s nice,
flat and smooth.
Then put some veggies on there – I like
a lot of vegetables, but it’s sometimes
harder to roll up, the price you pay for eating
all your veggies. I’ve mentioned that were
not going to use olive oil, or any type of
fat, we are just using whole foods.
There is some fat in the chickpeas because
I’m going to add a few pumpkin seeds for
a nice little crunch, some extra flavor and
fat. Seeds like pumpkin seeds do better when
you soaked them overnight and dehydrated to
keep them longer.
When you going to eat it which is getting
a little bit challenging. You just roll it
up, tuck it up in one end – I usually start
eating from this end. As you can see its definitely
much better to assemble this if you’re going
to eat it.
So there you go, easy lettuce wrap recipe,
an easy lunch idea. Phil and I are going to
dig into ours now and like I said, we enjoyed
eating with our hands. Its fun to be messy
sometimes because it connects you with your
food a little bit, and just for a little different
experience.
So try it out. You can find the recipes over
at healthyveganrecipes.net where there is
always nutritional info as to why we should
cut back on oils and stick to whole foods
fat. Also visit healthyeatingstartshere.com.
