Exploring Lettuce wraps

Exploring Lettuce wraps

One of the greatest inventions ( in my opinion ) to the gluten free dieter is a lettuce wrap. Since I learned this fantastic trick I have even had some of my gluten eating co-workers addicted to the things.
The idea is simple, instead of bread you use a crisp lettuce leaf to wrap a variety of fillings, I use them with hot or cold fillings but they are especially good for lunchmeat on these up coming spring days when a hot lunch just doesn’t hit the spot like a good old fashion sandwich.
I took this technique from the book Living Gluen Free for dummies.
What to do:
~Take a whole head of lettuce, ice-burg or similar variety, and cut only the stem , leaving the head in
tact.
~Emerse the entire head of lettuce in ice water, let sit for about an hour or two.
~ take the head out of water and place on a plate, cover with a damp paper towel and set in the refrigerator for another hour or two.
~gently tear the whole leaves off individually, after sitting in the fridge the leaves should be crisp and some what separated making it easy to tear off.
Fill with ingredients of your choice.
I keep the remaining lettuce in the fridge with a damp paper towel to keep the leaves crisp, then just separate as needed.

Cold cut sandwich on a lettuce wrap.
Its been hard for me to find lunch meat in the grocery store that did not have ingredients that were ok with my diet, lactic acid is one of the main ingredient I find. Gluten can also be found in some lunch meats that are highly seasoned, also gluten can be found in a lot of chicken stock so be sure to check carefully.
My sandwich consisted of turkey , avocado, mayonnaise ( made from canola oil not soy) tomatoes, and alfalfa sprouts.
Wrap all ingredients in the lettuce as though it were a tortilla. And enjoy!!