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    Ground Beef Lettuce Wraps with Peri Peri Sauce

    Published: Apr 25, 2021 Modified: Dec 7, 2022 by Isabel Laessig

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    The best beef lettuce wraps recipe you will ever try! Our Portuguese Ground Beef Lettuce Wraps combines the powerfully delicious flavor of Portuguese and Chinese recipes. You can whip them up in minutes!

    Portuguese Beef Lettuce Wraps Recipe on a white plate with radishes and carrots
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    • What is Peri-Peri sauce?
    • Best Lettuce for Lettuce Wraps
    • How to Make Lettuce Wraps with Beef
    • Are beef lettuce wraps keto?
    • Are they gluten-free?
    • What to Serve with Lettuce Wraps
    • Keto Beef Recipes
    • What to Do with Leftover Steak
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    Portuguese food is Mediterranean cuisine at its best! It is so tasty, vibrant, spicy, and packed with flavor. It's known to be very fresh and healthy. Mix it with these easy beef lettuce wraps, and it's a perfect pair.

    Sweet paprika, garlic, bay leaves, and a spicy Peri-Peri sauce give these ground beef wraps a sweet-and-spicy quality we guarantee you will love. This is one of our favorite easy ground beef recipes!

    This recipe combines all those ingredients to produce a flavor packed ground beef lettuce wrap filled with veggies!

    Portuguese-style beef lettuce wraps recipe on a wooden serving board

    What is Peri-Peri sauce?

    Peri-Peri sauce, also known as Piri-Piri sauce, is a spicy sauce recipe developed by Portuguese settlers in South Africa. It uses the African bird's eye chili, which is a small red pepper with a lot of flavor.

    This spicy Portuguese sauce recipe pairs well with everything from chicken to beef. It is both spicy and tangy, and will leave you wanting more!

    Best Lettuce for Lettuce Wraps

    Bibb or butter lettuce is the best lettuce to use for a lettuce wraps recipe. Both are sweet and soft lettuces that pair deliciously with the beef and cup the ingredients perfectly.

    Ingredients for Portuguese ground beef lettuce wraps recipe on table next to each other

    How to Make Lettuce Wraps with Beef

    1. Combine ground beef, garlic cloves, sweet paprika, and bay leaf in a large bowl.
      Ground beef for lettuce wraps in a bowl
    2. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for. This necessary step will give your ground beef lettuce wraps so much flavor.
      Covering ground beef mixture with plastic wrap
    3. Add the beef to the skillet and sauté until browned and fully cooked.
      Wooden spoon of ground beef
    4. Stir Peri-Peri sauce or hot sauce of your choice.
      Ladling in peri-peri sauce to beef mixture
    5. Assemble your tasty ground beef wraps.
      Ingredients ready to assemble Portuguese beef lettuce wraps

    Depending on how spicy you like your wraps, you can use more or less Peri-Peri sauce. The amount we use in this recipe gives the wraps a medium level of heat, so if you like it a little spicier, add a little bit more!

    Portioning beef into lettuce wraps recipe

    Are beef lettuce wraps keto?

    Yes! Carrots have the most carbs of the ingredients in these low-carb lettuce wraps, so if you want to make this recipe even more low-carb, leave them out.

    Peri-Peri sauce has about 7 carbs per serving. However, this recipe is very friendly for a low-carb diet, and we know you will love it!

    Close up of three beef lettuce wraps on a plate by the skillet of ground beef

    This recipe is keto friendly. Try more of our Best Keto Beef Recipes!

    Are they gluten-free?

    They sure are! None of the ingredients in this lettuce wraps recipe include gluten.

    This is an amazingly tasty dish if you are following a gluten-free diet. You will not be missing out on any flavor!

    What to Serve with Lettuce Wraps

    • Rice
    • Orzo Pasta
    • Potato Salad
    • Quinoa
    Filled beef lettuce wrap sitting on serving board

    We bet you will also love our Vietnamese Steak Salad! This is the queen of all salads! The flavor combination is just amazing!

    Did you try our Portuguese Beef Lettuce Wraps? Let us know in the comments below, with a rating, and by sharing on Pinterest! We love to hear from you.

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    What to Do with Leftover Steak

    This is one of my favorite recipes to make using leftover steak! Try making more of our best Leftover Steak Recipes.

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    Portuguese Beef Lettuce Wraps Recipe

    What makes this Portuguese Beef Lettuce Wraps recipe so special is the combination of Portuguese flavors and the style of traditional Chinese lettuce wraps. They are truly delicious!
    Prep Time15 mins
    Cook Time10 mins
    Total Time25 mins
    Course: Healthy Beef Recipes
    Cuisine: Portuguese
    Keyword: beef lettuce wraps, beef recipes, lettuce wrap recipe, lettuce wrap recipes, lettuce wraps, portuguese recipes, wrap recipes
    Servings: 8
    Calories: 240kcal
    Author: Isabel Laessig

    Equipment

    • Skillet

    Ingredients

    • 1 pound ground beef
    • 1 lemon cut in half
    • 2 garlic cloves minced
    • 1 bay leaf
    • 4 tablespoons olive oil
    • ½ cup Peri-Peri sauce or hot sauce of choice
    • 1 cup grape tomatoes cut in half
    • 1 cup shredded carrots
    • 1 cup radishes thinly sliced
    • 2 small heads of bibb or butter lettuce separated

    See our Beef Temperature Chart for helpful tips on cooking any cut of beef!

    Instructions

    • Combine 1 pound lean ground beef, 2 minced garlic cloves, 2 teaspoons sweet paprika, and 1 bay leaf in a large bowl.
      Ground beef for lettuce wraps in a bowl
    • Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for approximately 4 hours or overnight. 
      This necessary step will give your ground beef lettuce wraps so much flavor.
      Covering ground beef mixture with plastic wrap
    • Heat a skillet over medium-high and add 4 tablespoons olive oil. Remove the bay leaf from your beef mixture. Add the beef to the skillet and saute for approximately 5 minutes, until browned and fully cooked.
      Stirring ground beef in skillet
    • Stir in ½ cup Peri-Peri sauce or hot sauce of your choice and juice from ½ a lemon, and continue to cook for 5 more minutes.
      Ladling in peri-peri sauce to beef mixture
    • Remove the skillet from heat. Add to lettuce wraps using 2 small heads of bibb or butter lettuce, and 1 cup each of shredded carrots, halved grape tomatoes, and sliced radishes for serving. Squeeze juice from ½ lemon over top finished wraps.
      Filled beef lettuce wrap sitting on serving board

    Notes

    Be sure not to skip on marinating the beef. It adds so much flavor rather than just cooking it straight away!

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1serving | Calories: 240kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 51mg | Sodium: 157mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 3g

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    About Isabel Laessig

    Isabel Laessig, better known as Family Foodie and the founder of the Sunday Supper Movement, is passionate about food and family! She is the author of the Boujee Steak Cookbook, and makes regular television appearances to spread her mission of bringing Sunday Supper back around the family table in every home.

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    1. Veronica says

      March 23, 2021 at 12:01 am

      You call for 1 lemon, but how is it used in the recipe?

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      • Em Beitel says

        April 08, 2021 at 6:38 pm

        Hi Veronica! Thank you for pointing this out for us. Sorry for the confusion! Cut the lemon in half and use 1/2 the juice when adding the peri peri sauce. Use the remainder to squeeze over the finished wraps.

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