Nutritionist's Pick: Cumin-Turmeric Beef and Couscous Lettuce Wraps
with Cilantro and Cucumber Raita
Fragrant, colourful and full of contrast, this dish brings together tender spiced beef, fluffy couscous and crisp lettuce for a fresh, hands-on meal. Cooling cilantro-cucumber raita also adds creamy balance to every bite. This nutritionist's pick is a light, satisfying meal when you need a good-for-you boost.
Ingredients: Iceburg lettuce • Ground beef • Sweet bell pepper • Greek yogurt (milk) (skim milk, cream, active bacterial cultures) • Moroccan couscous (wheat) (durum wheat semolina) • Cucumber • Yellow onion • Cilantro • Garlic • Cumin-turmeric blend (cumin, turmeric, silicon dioxide).
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes eggs, milk, fish, peanuts, sesame, shellfish, soy, tree nuts, and wheat.
Ingredients
250 g
Ground Beef
½ cup
Couscous
(Contains: Wheat May contain traces of: Gluten)
½ unit(s)
Iceberg Lettuce Head
1 unit(s)
Sweet Bell Pepper
1 unit(s)
Mini Cucumber
56 g
Yellow Onion, chopped
7 g
Cilantro
2 unit(s)
Garlic, cloves
1 unit(s)
Greek Yogurt
(Contains: Milk)
4 g
Cumin-Turmeric Spice Blend
(May contain traces of: Mustard, Peanuts, Wheat, Milk, Soy, Sulphites, Sesame, Tree nuts, Triticale)
Not included in your delivery
½ tbsp
Oil*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Before starting, wash and dry all produce.
- To a medium pot, add 2/3 cup (1 1/3 cups) water, 1/2 tbsp (1 tbsp) olive oil and 1/8 tsp (1/2 tsp) salt. Bring to a boil over high.
- Once boiling, stir in couscous and half the Cumin-Turmeric Spice Blend. Remove the pot from heat, then cover and set aside for 5 min for couscous to rehydrate.
- Meanwhile, heat a large non-stick pan over high.
- While pan heats, peel, then mince or grate garlic.
- Core, then cut pepper into 1/4-inch pieces.
- When hot, add beef, peppers, onions, half the garlic and remaining Cumin-Turmeric Spice Blend to the dry pan. Cook for 3-5 min, breaking up beef into smaller pieces, until veggies are tender-crisp and no pink remains in beef.**
- Season with salt and pepper, if you like, then set aside.
- Halve cucumber lengthwise. Cut into 1/8-inch half moons.
- Roughly chop cilantro.
- To a medium bowl, add cucumber, yogurt and remaining garlic. Season with salt and pepper, if you like. Toss to coat.
- Remove and discard outer layer of lettuce. Halve lettuce, then remove stem. Separate 8 (16) leaves from the head. (NOTE: Use remaining any lettuce for a future creation.)
- Divide between plates.
- Fluff couscous with a fork, then stir in half the cilantro.
- Fill wraps with couscous, beef mixture and raita.
- Sprinkle remaining cilantro over top.
