Bison Lettuce Wraps
recipe from Red Frazier Bison for 2022 Taste of the Fair
Ingredients:
- ground bison
- 1 small yellow onion – minced
- 8-12 oz can water chestnuts, drained, minced
- 2 tbsp. minced ginger
- 2 tbsp. minced garlic
- 1 whole carrot – grated
- 2 heads Boston Butter lettuce*
- Soy sauce
- Hoisin sauce
- Rice vinegar
- Garlic chili paste
Garnishes:
- Green onions
- Sesame Seeds
- Asian Vinaigrette dressing
Directions:
- Cook down ground bison with soy sauce, salt, and pepper. Set aside.
- In a food processor, combine yellow onion, water chestnuts, carrot, ginger and garlic. Process until finely chopped – you don’t want mushy vegetables but they should be small enough to be sautéed quickly and still have some shape.
- Sauté vegetable blend in a large saucepan for a few minutes with approximately 3 tbsp. Hoison sauce and a couple splashes of rice vinegar. After 3-4 minutes on high heat stir in ground bison and a 1 tbsp. of garlic chili paste. Set aside.
- Wash lettuce and remove ends. Keep lettuce in whole leaf form.
- Place lettuce on plate.
- Put wrap mixture in a bowl and garnish with diced green onion, sesame seeds, and Asian Sesame Vinaigrette dressing. Place bowl on plate with lettuce and a spoon.
*You could use another type of lettuce as long as it is soft enough to easily wrap the filling; or firmer and shaped to make a small cup for the filling. For that matter, you could even put the filling in something else like a wonton wrapper or pita pocket or serve it with rice.
