Windset Farms® Pork Lettuce Wraps

Chef Dana Reinhardt, Windset Farms®, creates an easy and delicious recipe for Pork Lettuce Wraps.

Duration: 5:52

We're Cookworks on Broadway and Granville for Saturday chefs of course with Dana Reinhardt, the Executive Chef of Windset farms cooking up one of my favorite things which of course I never actually make at home. I only order when I go out, which Dana knows is how I eat, but you will teach us how to make lettuce wraps with the brand new Windset product.

Yes, this is the Delicado. It's one in a series of fresh greenhouse lettuces that Windset will be bringing on. It’s beautiful and it's like a flower. It's absolutely gorgeous and it still has the root end on it so it's super fresh.

Okay, you're gonna teach us how to deal with this. How to clean it and get a longer life out of it.

But first, let's put this together so I have a pound ground beef. I have a lovely little Gousto pepper earlier as well and I'm taking the seeds in the membrane out and I'm just going to finely chop about half of it because as you know they're fairly spicy and if you want to put in about a tablespoon of shallots and a tsp of the garlic.

The shallots and teaspoon the garlic and juice of one lime and the fish sauce. Yeah, the whole thing would you said one line couple tablespoons of this thought I use it a lot and and add a little sweetness as well as a little heat a little just chili sauce, sweet chili sauce and to the mix that all right.

So now we'll just throw that into our pan. Because I like to keep it on the root as long as I can because it obviously it keeps it fresher longer than cutting up because it's a living product. It's got a little bit of soil you just buy it like this. So these ones have to be washed individually, but to wash you just want to plunge it in a bowl of water like that. And that's basically going to get the majority our, and the and then I leave it actually on the root.

Okay and then you just take off the ones on the bottom you as you can see the bits of soil come off there it'll keep longer. Exactly. Excellent. And it just looks nice too. Good for wrapping your lettuce. And this butter lettuce. I’ve noticed in comparison to other butter lettuce, I've used in the past. It's got actually really good structure. So everything's cooks and your lettuce is ready and the meat is ready. We just need to add some cilantro and some fresh green basil. Yeah, this is the holy trinity of kind of Thai andVietnamese these three then they are fabulous together. And then we're just going to mix that in.

Now this will be fun for kids to do I think Dana.

Yeah, well, anything that you can eat with your hands. This is good for kids. Anything that's messy and it's okay.

And it's a great way to get them to eat lettuce because sometimes if you say salad, they run the other direction. So we've got some of our butter lettuce here. I'm just gonna put that down there soon on some of the mixture and of course, you know you make two or three and then we just top it because you want a little bit of nice texture from the butter lettuce and then a little bit of texture as well from the peanuts. It’s too pretty. So we need some of the dipping sauce. That's just a sweet chili sauce. You wanna put that on?

Yeah, I like a little sweet. That's why I put it on the side. Because that adds nice sweetness. You just roll it up. Okay, you're ready. The things you make this is why kids like it. It's lots of entertainment on the table.

Thank you very much. Welcome butter lettuce wrap. Your clipboards on Broadway and Granville and thanks to them as well for lending us their kitchen. Yes, even though we're making a mess.

Presenter: Dana Reinhardt, Chef, Vancouver, BC

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