Turkey Lettuce Cups with Green Goddess Dressing
If you don't want to make the Green Goddess Dressing, you can simply top these with coconut aminos, or a soy sauce, grated ginger, sesame oil and brown rice vinegar mixture. Green Goddess Dressing from Baked by Melissa can be found here. I just added 1/2 an avocado.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
For the Turkey Lettuce Cups:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil extra virgin
- 1 lb. lean ground turkey
- 1 small onion chopped fine
- 1 or 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger grated, optional
- 1 zucchini chopped fine
- 1 package (8 oz) mushrooms shiitake or cremini, sliced or chopped fine
- salt and pepper
- Bibb lettuce
For the Green Goddess Dressing:
- juice of 2 lemons
- 1/4 cup olive oil extra virgin
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 small shallot
- 1/3 cup chives optional
- 1/2 ripe avocado optional
- 1/4 cup pecans, walnuts, cashews or nut of choice
- 1 cup fresh torn basil leaves
- 1 cup baby spinach
- 1/3 cup nutritional yeast or parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
For the Turkey Lettuce Cups:
- Heat the olive oil in a large sauté pan over medium high heat. Add the lean ground turkey and cook until no longer pink. Add the onions, garlic, ginger, zucchini and mushrooms and cook until tender, for about 4 to 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and remove from heat.
For the Green Goddess Dressing:
- Add all liquid dressing ingredients to a blender, then add the dry dressing ingredients and blend until smooth.
- To serve: place some of your cooked turkey mixture into a piece of lettuce and top with some of the dressing. Enjoy!