Making Peachdish Beef Lettuce Wraps with Orange Broccolini

Let me start  by letting you know, this dish was so GOOD that my family has asked me to make this again in the next week. This may become a regular menu item at my house! Peachdish.com invites a new chef each week to work with them in creating these meals and this week, the chef was such a good fit for my family that I am going to have to laminate or scan the recipe cards so I don't lose them! At a minmum I am going to have to bookmark the recipe from the Peachdish page. Are  you familiar with who Peachdish.com is?
     Peachdish.com is a company that ships out all the ingredients you need for 2 different meals each week. The meals are different each week, and according to their website - southern inspired. I love getting things in my boxes that have little references to places in the south. You get almost everything you need to make these two dishes, you just have to supply the labor, maybe a little oil, salt and pepper and standard cookware. If you want to see an example of what comes in one box, check out my post about just what the value of the items you receive looks like read my blog here: www.finicky-foody.com 

     So, let's get on with making of this recipe. It was not only delicious, it was EASY. First I rinsed and drained the rice, then simmered it in salted water, turned down the heat and covered it. I like to call this set it and forget it until the meal is ready to be served. Then I washed the lettuce and chopped up a couple things. A little onion, some garlic, cashews, and some ginger. I set this aside while I combined the orange juice, garlic, shallot and balsamic in a small sauce pan over medium heat. Watch this carefully as it can reduce quick if you aren't careful! I want to mention that everything was pre-measured so I didn't have to measure the orange juice, the balsamic or any of the other ingredients. I just put it in which is so easy! Once I noticed the the liquid had reduced, I turned it off and set it aside. I boiled the broccolini in water until it was soft and removed it, cool it off and then mix the sauce and the broccoli. Set this aside
     Last things up already! Crumble some ground beef in a skillet, you don't even have to stir! Just let it cook away in there, after it is well browned you mix it around, make a little space in the center, mix in some garlic, green onions (the white part), and ginger. after those cook up a little on their own, stir it together with the ground beef, add in the nuts greens of the green onion, and other optional ingredients. Separate this all between a few butter lettuce leaves, plate with the broccoli and rice. It is AMAZING! Don't forget to add a little sweet chili sauce or maybe Siracha! Bon Apetite! Thank you so much to Peachdish for sending out this AH-mazing dish that my family loves. I am going to be making it again really soon! If you want to find new family favorites like I did this week. Sign up today at Peachdish and save $15 off your first box by using my link Peachdish.com.

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