These Low Carb Asian Pork Lettuce Cups are packed full of flavors with juicy meat, fresh veggies and a crunch of lettuce cups to cover all the options.
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Light and tasty wraps that are great for appetizers with friends or a healthy dinner idea during the week. Weeknight dinner is covered with these. I made them three times in one week, that’s how much we love these cups.
I used ground pork for this recipe and I loved the balance of flavors of soy sauce and pork, onions and garlic. You can use the ground meat of your choice. Chicken or turkey would work well, just make sure you get some with a good fat ratio so it doesn’t dry out. If you go for chicken, use dark meat instead mixed with light meat.
Make sure to grab the easy recipe for my LENASKITCHEN PICKLED ONIONS, it’s one of the toppings and is a must to have in your fridge. We put them on everything, especially these Low Carb Asian Pork Lettuce Cups.
What Lettuce Is Best For Lettuce Cups?
- Iceberg Lettuce is what I prefer. It gives them a nice crispiness but they are harder to roll compared to other lettuce types.
- Bib Lettuce, Boston or Green Leaf all have a large, loose head and a dark green leaf.
- Butter Lettuce is a softer lettuce, thick, large leaves and easy to roll, but not as crunchy.
So in love with the flavor profile of these Low Carb Asian Pork Lettuce Cups. The best part, they take less than 30 minutes to throw together. So you have no excuse not to try this easy recipe.
I mean, just look at this platter of lettuce cups, tell me who can resist these? My family can’t for sure.
Can’t wait to see what you think of this recipe. It’s a keeper for sure.
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LOW CARB ASIAN LETTUCE CUPS
Ingredients
FILLING
- 2 lbs ground pork, or mix with a few different ground meats
- 1 medium sweet onion, finely diced
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tbsp sea salt
- 3 tbsp miso paste
DIPPING SAUCE
- 1/2 cup soy sauce or coconut aminos for WHOLE30 version
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 inch fresh ginger, grated
- 1/2 lime
- 1/2 lemon
- 2 tbsp white Miso paste
TOPPINGS
- 1 large avocado, cut into slices
- 3 radishes, cut in half and thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup fresh green onions, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- 1/2 cup lenaskitchen pickled onions
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds
- iceberg lettuce, divided into 12 or more cups
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine all the sauce ingredients and set aside.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add 2 tablespoons of oil and finely diced onion, cook until translucent, about 5-7 minutes. Add in the garlic and cook for a minute. Now add the ground pork and cook until you don’t see any pink, breaking up the pork as it cooks, until browned, about 5-7 minutes.
- Reduce the heat to medium and add the cumin and miso paste. Cook for 2 minutes.
- To serve, place some of the mixture in a lettuce cups and top with lenaskitchen pickled onions, radishes, avocado, green onion, cilantro leaves, sesame seeds and dip in dipping sauce.
xoxo,
LENA
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Lori
I just made these for my husband and I for dinner. Wow, such good flavor! The avocado is such a nice touch. YUM
lena
That makes me so happy to hear that Lori. The avocado is a must for that creamy touch. Happy Cooking!
Jennifer
Iade this tonight and it was a hit. Delicious and came together so quickly. I am curious about how it could be zero carbs, given that white miso is 5 gms of carbs per tbspn, and there are 5 tbspns of it in the combined sauce and filling.
lenaskitchen
Hi Jennifer, It’s an older post and I just updated my site to calculate the nutritional values, something I have to go in and manually update for each older recipe. Just updated the numbers for this recipe. Glad you enjoyed it.
Jeremy
So delicious will be making again!
Alina N
I love love new Keto friendly food!!!
lena
That’s so great to hear, thank you! Me too.
S Baker
This recipe was perfect. Light and tasty.