Mexican Inspired Lettuce Wraps

Today is Mother's Day here in Australia and I woke up feeling like something Mexican. So I raided the pantry and came up with this bunch of ingredients.

What I wanted was sort of a mix between a taco and a burrito, obviously using lettuce as my wrap.

So I started off by chopping my onion and mincing some garlic.

I sautéed this with some coconut oil and then cooked my turkey mince and returned the onion and garlic to the pan along with some corn kernels.

Then I added the beans I found in the pantry which happened to be black beans and a 3 bean mix, you can use what you like or even leave beans out. Kidney beans would work well I think.

I then made up taco seasoning (recipe to come) 

I added this along with some tomato paste to the pan and stirred it all through. At this stage I needed to put my rice on (probably should have actually done this earlier.

When your rice is cooked, stir it through your meat mixture.

Chop up your toppings and add it all to some lettuce.

Yum!

Recipe

Ingredients:

500g mince of your choice (I used Turkey)

2 onions

4 cloves garlic

1 can black beans

1 can 3 bean mix

Brown rice

Spring onion

Tomatoes

Cucumber

Taco seasoning

2 cups corn kernels

2 tbsp tomato paste

Method

Sauté garlic and onion.

Brown mince and return onion mix to pan with corn kernels, cook for a few minutes

Add beans and stir.

Add tomato paste and 3 tbsp taco seasoning and stir, cook for approx 2 minutes.

Cook rice according to pack directions and when cooked stir through meat mixture.

To serve place a scoop of meat and rice on some lettuce and top with spring onion, tomato and cucumber.

Usually I also dress with an avocado sauce but as it was a spur of the moment thing I didn't have any avocado.