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Sausage Pineapple Lettuce Wraps Recipe

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A delicious mix of sweet, spicy, tangy and crunchy. Pineapple is the surprise in these wraps you’ll want to fix again. —Aysha Schurman, Ammon, Idaho

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Sausage Pineapple Lettuce Wraps Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 30 min.

Yield: 30 Servings

20 10 30

Ingredients

1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 pound bulk spicy pork sausage
1 can (8 ounces) sliced water chestnuts, drained and finely chopped
30 Bibb or Boston lettuce leaves
30 pineapple chunks (about 2 cups)
1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted
Teriyaki sauce, optional

Directions

Drain pineapple, reserving 3 tablespoons juice. In a small bowl, combine the soy sauce, vinegar, cornstarch, garlic, ginger, pepper and reserved pineapple juice; set aside.
In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in water chestnuts and crushed pineapple. Gradually stir in soy sauce mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened.
Place about 2 tablespoons sausage mixture on each lettuce leaf; fold lettuce over filling. Top with a pineapple chunk; secure with a toothpick. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve with teriyaki sauce if desired. Yield: 2-1/2 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 lettuce wrap (calculated without sauce) equals 50 calories, 3 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 5 mg cholesterol, 188 mg sodium, 4 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein. Diabetic Exchange: 1/2 starch.

Originally published as Sausage Pineapple Lettuce Wraps in Simple & Delicious April/May 2012, p20

Medium-Bodied White Wine

Enjoy this recipe with a medium-bodied white wine such as Riesling or Gewürtztraminer

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Reviewed on Dec. 12, 2012 by pyxie7

This was a hit with our friends. I made no changes. I love the pineapple in it. I've had PF Chang's lettuce wraps and these are on par with those, although the sausage and pineapple makes them different. Next time I will buy romaine or green leaf lettuce as bib is so expensive.