Sometimes, the simplest of things can be the most enjoyable…
After having an amazing day in the forest, all that sun and fresh air really made us hungry. We wanted something tasty, but relatively hassle-free, since we walked for hours without stopping, except for a moment, to admire nature’s miracles and take photos.
It started as a usual mix-all-in salad, but instead, I decided to make this lettuce wraps.
Salad mix
- 1 head of lettuce
- handful of chopped scallion green parts
- handful of wild garlic
- handful of arugula
- 2-3 smaller pieces of Jerusalem artichokes
- few leaves of lemon balm
- 200 grams of soaked buckwheat
- juice from half a lemon
- 1 tablespoon of sunflower seed butter
- 2 teaspoons of salt water sole (or salt to taste)
Walnut dollops
- 100 grams of walnuts
- handful of chopped parsley leaves
- 2 teaspoons of sweet paprika powder
- 1/3 of teaspoon of cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon of powdered garlic
- 4 teaspoons of nutritional yeast
- 2 teaspoons of salt water sole (or salt to taste)
- Little bit of water
Separate a few of the biggest lettuce leaves for the ‘wraps’. Chop the rest of lettuce, scallions, wild garlic, arugula and lemon balm. Grate Jerusalem artichokes, add the rest of ingredients and mix well.
For walnut dollops, soak walnuts for 6-8 hours or overnight. Rinse, drain and add them in the food processor. Add the rest of the ingredients and blend until you get uniformed consistency, only a bit sticky.
Lay your lettuce leaves on a plate and fill them up with salad mix and add on top a walnut dollop.
Let’s wrap it up! 🙂
The walnut dollops are similar to the savory walnut balls I made earlier. I find that, at least for our old food processor, the best and tastiest nut mixtures come from walnuts and cashews. With other nuts and seeds I find they end up too crumbly and not so compact. Maybe I need to blend them more or add some oil, which I’m not too keen on. What is certain, I need a better food processor 🙂
We munched on our wraps while watching one of our favorite Youtubers, Cryaotic, play Dreamfall Chapters. Great fun for a finish of a very enjoyable day. At least for two geeks like us! 😛
Looks like a fun snack! I love using lettuce leaves for a wrap. Nice and crunchy! The walnut filling sounds creamy and delicious. I usually use cashews for vegan cream sauces, but maybe I should try walnut too. Any other nuts you recommend for cream sauces?
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I love lettuce in every way. Such a delicate flavor goes well with everything. My favorite nuts for cream sauces are definitely cashews and walnuts. Pine nuts are also fabulous, but expensive, so occasionally to spoil yourself is fine! 🙂 Pecans would probably be fine, as they are similar to walnuts. I would sooo like to try macadamia nuts, but I can’t find them in Serbia. When I buy a new food processor I’ll see if other nuts will make the cut into ‘favorite’ category 🙂
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I’ve tried almonds for cream sauces too. Pretty good, but not quite the same as cashews. Hah, yah… unfortunately, pine nuts are always expensive. Sigh, only for special occasions. I think you’ll love macadamia nuts! Very tasty! 😉
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I’m not sure why almonds don’t turn so creamy as cashews or walnuts. Maybe less fat? Mmm, can’t wait to get my paws on those macadamia nuts! 🙂
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Yah, I think it must be the fat content. That’s the good stuff, haha. 😛
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It looks amazing, is great for party as well. Easy to prepare advance, love it so much. Thanks! 🙂
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Glad you like it so much! 🙂 I’m not so versed in wrapping per say, but toothpick can always come in handy to keep everything in place 🙂
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Ah Milica 🙂 I’ve been waiting to see what you were going to make this week! 🙂 Looks delicious and presented so very beautifully too. Thanks for letting me borrow this post for my ‘W’ today! 😛 🙂 What a coincidence that I’d already linked to you anyway in todays post! 😛 🙂 x
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We’re connected, what can I say?! 🙂 Again, thank you for sharing this recipe on your blog :-* Last weekend I made two new recipes, hopefully I can write at least one of them before next Saturday 😛
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🙂 Milica it is a lovely recipe and I’m excited for my lunch! Ooo exciting… not to wish my life away but I can’t wait to see what you made! 🙂
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Let me know how you liked it! 🙂 I can’t promise anything, but hopefully I can post it at least on Friday, since it’s a holiday! I love long weekends! 🙂
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Milica 🙂 Our lunch was amazing thank you! The walnut mix might become a staple in our house! Yes… meat munching hubby loved it too!
Ooo… A long weekend 🙂 Hang on… I think we have Monday off woohoo 🙂
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You know something is spot on when a meat eater likes it! 🙂 We’re having free Friday, super excited about that! 🙂 I’m thinking of starting a petition for 4 days work week 😀 😛
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Indeed! We will have walnut wraps again… and again ☺ Ooo a 4 day working week! I wonder if that would work in school! 😛
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I am positive it would! 🙂
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Wow healthy and delicious wraps- lovely combo of flavors and just love each ingredients in there. … yummm
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We eat a lot of greens lately and loving it! Add some kind of nutty dressing, crumble, dip or filling and yummy meal is ready! Thank you for your kind words, Chitra 🙂
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Those look amazing!
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Thank you, Yanic. They were gone in no time 😀
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this looks super tasty!! yumm
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Glad you like it! We really enjoyed those wraps! 🙂
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These look delicious! I love lettuce wraps. Nice Job!
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Thank you, Jessica! The combination of crunchy lettuce and creamy walnut filling was really satisfying! 🙂
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