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 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!
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.
How to Make Lettuce Wraps with Beef
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!
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! 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
RiceOrzo PastaPotato SaladQuinoa
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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. Check out our Beef Lettuce Wraps Web Story!