With summer in full swing, I find myself wanting to maximize outdoor time: swimming, gardening, playing with the kids, and basically anything but cooking an elaborate dinner that requires a lot of time and energy. During our busy summer months, dinners have to be fast, healthy, and delicious. Grilled meats and salads are great most of the time, but can get pretty boring. I am so excited to share with you my latest summertime meal that is super fast (thanks to Success® Whole Grain Brown Rice), some quick cooking ground turkey, and fresh raw veggies all rolled up into crisp lettuce topped with a homemade peanut sauce.
Contents
Turkey and Rice Lettuce Wraps
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: dinner
Description
Brown rice and perfectly cooked turkey wrapped in a healhy lettuce leaf.
Ingredients
Scale
- I bag of Success Boil-in-Bag brown rice
- For Turkey:
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 1/4 red onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 1/4 cup liquid aminos
- 1 tbs brown sugar
- 1 tbs rice wine vinegar
- For Peanut dressing:
- 3 tbs liquid aminos
- 2 tbs rice wine vinegar
- 1 1/2 tbs honey
- 1 tbs spicy mustard
- 1/2 tbs sriracha
- 1/2 tsp sesame oil
- 2 tbs peanut butter
- 4–6 large romaine leaves (or other lettuce for wraps)
- Assorted raw veggies for wraps (shredded carrots, peppers, peas, sprouts, etc.)
Instructions
- Heat skillet to Med heat and add oil
- saute onion and garlic until tender
- saute turkey until cooked through, then add sauce and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Cook Success boil-in-Bag rice according to package directions
- Combine peanut butter, liquid aminos, vinegar, mustard, honey, sriracha, and sesame oil.
- Assemble lettuce wraps. Top with peanut sauce. Enjoy!
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Sounds delicious! I would probably use whatever veggies I harvested from the garden that day, and we always have ground turkey on hand!
I keep seeing lettuce wraps pop up lately but I haven´t tried them yet, this looks easy and yummy! In the summer I like to do batch cook one day a week and do lots of freezer meals that I can put in a crock pot and not heat up the house!
These sound great! We eat ground turkey a few times a week and with lettuce from the garden we will definitely be trying these! At the beginning of the week, I chop veggies and store them in tupperware containers, so I can easily grab for that nights dinner. Saves time on chopping and preparing!
This sounds delicious! Like Gretchen, I’ve also been wanting to try out the lettuce wraps. These sound super easy and yummy. During the summer, I like to throw a bunch of fresh veggies with some seasoning and EVOO on the grill, then wrap those up in some Syrian bread. It’s quick, healthy, cheap, and the house stays cool ?
We make pasta salad in the summer.
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Yum! I have some ground turkey in the freezer, so will try these soon!
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I make lots of salads and meals using fresh ingredients to save time.
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I do freezer cooking to save time
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I buy a lot of things that make it easier. premade salads , rotisserie chicken, fruit bowls, a lot of items that are already prepared so I do not have to cook in the heat. I also cook fast meals in my slow cooker.
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I use my presure cooker or crockpot during the Summer. Less heating in the house, and great tasting meals.
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I love to make rice with lots of vegetables. I add chicken and turkey. It is a very healthy combination of protein and greens.
We make big batches of meat on the grill and then freeze them
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We do a lot of sandwiches during the summer.
I always saute veggies before adding them to recipes because it saves me usually 5-10 minutes of cooking time.
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I like to cook a little extra and use the extras for quick meals. Nothing easier than leftovers.
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I opt to one pot meal and no-cook meal such as salad to save time and avoid overheating the kitchen during summer.
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I save time by having any meals ready in the freezer to heat through on the nights I don’t have time or don’t really feel like spending a lot of time cooking.
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I use our Instant Pot to steam vegetables that we buy from the farmers market. It doesn’t actually take less time to cook but you don’t have to watch it so you can use the time to prepare other dishes.
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In the summer, I save time cooking by using the slow cooker, or use semi-prepared products like Success Rice or prepared pizza dough. So convenience.
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In the summer we a lot more raw foods that don’t require cooking. Our garden provides a lot of food for our family. I love the idea of Success Rice and plan to try it alongside some roasted chicken and vegetables.
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I freeze extra servings of stuff so I can just pop those out later and not have to cook!
I like to make quick things on the stovetop like grilled cheese, and it keeps me from having to warm up the house even more with the oven.
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I love using the crock pot . Keeps the stove off and it cooks with minimal work from me.
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I save time cooking by making crock pot meals. That way you don’t have to heat up the kitchen.
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easy meals crock pot alot or grill
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I make vegetable fried rice.
I make lots of salads in the summer to avoid using the stove or oven.
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BBQ a lot.
i leave pre-made items in the fridge like cut up tomatoes and chicken and guac for little chicken bowls
If your kids are old enough, take advantage of them being home and have them help out with prep or cooking, anything that that can handle.
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I make a big batch of something and split it between two dinners.
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I like to try new recipes in the slow cooker.
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Using the crock pot or pressure cooker always helps me… especially when I don’t have to use the oven as much in the summer time!
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I save time by making enough of each meal to freeze so the next week I can just use some of those!
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I use my Crock-pot a lot. Actually all year.
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I crock pot lots of stuff in the summer. It doesn’t heat up the house and I don’t have to stand around cooking all night.
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I prep most of my meals to save time and in the summer usually just eat raw since it is faster and easier for me. Thanks for the nice giveaway ?
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I love to save time cooking by throwing everything in the crock pot early in the morning! Then, by dinner, it’s all done! Nice, hearty and not much fuss 🙂
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we sometimes grill enough for several days to save time
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I like to make fried rice with leftovers from the previous day.
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I like using a crockpot during the summer and doing freezer meals for the crockpot
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I grill easy things like hot dogs and burgers.
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We like to cook whole turkey breasts in the crock pot and have shredded turkey on hand for easy sandwiches, soups, salads, etc. It’s great to have a protein ready to throw in a meal in a hurry!
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cook light food in the summer
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In order to to save time cooking during the summer, I sometimes use the slow cooking crock pot. I especially love a lot of dishes consisting of rice, because it is so good and healthy.
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I use my slow cooker a lot!
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