When life gives you lettuce, wrap something tasty in it. This everlasting wisdom has been haunting us during our waking and sleeping hours for almost a year. Still, it took over 8 months and these vegan lettuce wraps to discover how heavenly something wrapped in lettuce can taste.

Lettuce wrapped around smooth fresh avocado sauce with the texture of a cloud, creamy velvet-like yet spicy bean dip, fluffy quinoa and crunchy fresh fragrant salad – that’s all we've been wanting all our life. We just didn’t know it. Salad wrapped in a salad, roll your eyes all you want, it doesn’t get any better than that.

Nothing and we mean nothing compares to these quinoa-bean lettuce wraps and we mean it in a Sinead O’Connor way.

We are in tears writing this, wondering if we should shave our head or not and biting our nails and spitting them out on our wooden floor.

Why?

Well, we like nails on the floor. But also it’s 9 pm and in Germany, at this time even the internet is closed. We don’t have any beans or quinoa to make these wraps right now and the soonest we can buy groceries is tomorrow at 8 am.

Our leftovers are non-existent.

Our mind is in overdrive. We are going insane. We feel used, seduced and abandoned by these quinoa bean lettuce wraps.

Well, we guess we should’ve known better. No garlic-rich, onion-loaded, bean-wealthy, quinoa-successful and avocado-luxurious lettuce wrap can stay in your life forever.

But we will survive tonight (somehow!!!!) – tomorrow is a new day and we will make them again. All we'll need are cooked quinoa, a lettuce, a can of kidney beans, avocado, lemon, garlic, some veggies, onions, some chili powder to spice up our life and gut and some functioning taste buds.

We'll make them for lunch and for dinner.

Who am we kidding?

We'll probably also make them for breakfast – it’s Saturday, who cares if we ate 2 cloves of anti-viral detoxifying garlic?

We made these last Saturday and as you can tell – we are obsessed with them.

But beyond their addictive properties that turn a normal human being like us into a complete psychopath, they’re healthy, suitable for weight loss and great for skin, hair and nails.

So you might be a psychopath, but at least you’ll be a physically healthy attractive one.

And isn’t that the dream?

HEALTH AND BEAUTY BENEFITS

These vegan lettuce wraps are rich in iron, fiber, protein, zinc, potassium, vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin C and the garlicky superstar allicin. These nutrients work together to:

moisturize your skin
clean out toxins
rejuvenate skin
protect the whole body from those destructive free radicals, cancer and heart disease
reduce inflammation.

It seriously doesn’t get better than that.

If you have all the ingredients at home now – it’s your obligation to go ahead and make these quinoa-bean lettuce wraps and change your life. Don’t forget that somewhere in the world it’s 9 pm now – and if it’s Germany everything’s closed and somebody’s not able to make these lettuce wraps right now. Do it for them.

Lettuce wraps with quinoa and bean dip, vegan

Yield: 6-7 lettuce wraps
Prep: 25 minutes
Total: 50 minutes

Ingredients

Bean Dip:

1 can /1 cup red kidney beans
2 garlic cloves
1 small tomato
1 tsp olive oil
10 basil leaves
Optional: 1 tsp chili powder

Avocado Dip

1 avocado
½ lemon – juiced
10 basil leaves

Salad

1 tomato
1 small red onion
1 small pointed green/yellow/red pepper
5 small green olives
1 tsp olive oil
½ cup arugula
salt to taste

Additionaly:

1 cup cooked quinoa
1 lettuce head

Method

Bean dip: Slice tomato into quarters, rinse and drain beans from the can, peel garlic cloves and smash them. Place all ingredients – beans, tomato, garlic, olive oil and basil leaves into a food processor and blend until thick and smooth.
Avocado dip: Peel avocado and place into your food processor. Squeeze the lemon and add the juice and the basil leaves to the avocado – blend until stunningly creamy and smooth.
Salad: Chop onion, tomato pepper, olives and arugula small and place into a small/medium bowl. Add olive oil and salt to taste.
For the wraps: Wash lettuce leaves dry with a paper towel. Place quinoa in the center of the lettuce leaf, then add the bean dip, avocado sauce and finally salad. Don’t overstuff - after all you can afford to eat another lettuce 😉
Enjoy!

Notes

vegan, gluten-free, nut-free, detoxifying, high-fiber, antioxidant, heart-healthy