These are my version of Walnut lettuce tacos. Ideal as an appetiser, there is no cooking with all the ingredients being raw and instead of traditional wheat or corn tacos, we use gem lettuce leaves. The “meat” is a mixture of walnuts, spices and sun dried tomatoes placed in the lettuce leaf and then on top a large spoon of mango chilli and lime salsa.
Place the walnuts into a blender and turn into a coarse crumb
Keeping the walnuts in the blender and add the sun dried tomatoes and blend a bit more.
Now add the spices, coriander and soy sauce to the blender and blend until the mixture is blended into a fine blend. scrap down the sides during the blending if necessary.
Turn out the mixture into a bowl ready to use.
Now prepare the Mango and green chilli salsa
Take the Gem lettuce and separate the leaves and rinse and shake them dry.
Now take a tablespoon of the walnut mixture and place it on an individual gem leaf. Put a tablespoon of the mango and green chilli salsa on top of the walnut mixture. Repeat until all the gem lettuce is used up or the walnut mixture
Ingredients 
blends the walnuts nuts to a fine grain 
add the sun dried tomatoes and blend 
add all the spices and blend 
put the walnut ‘meat’ into bowl ready 
separate out gem lettuce leaves 
fill with the walnut mixture 
cover each one with mango salsa
Walnut lettuce tacos with mango and chilli salsa
Ingredients
- 150 g walnuts – or pecans
- 30 g sun dried tomatoes
- 1 tbsp ground cumin
- 2 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 30 g coriander
- 2 gem lettuce allow for some waste
Method
- Place the walnuts into a blender and turn into a coarse crumb
- Keeping the walnuts in the blender, add the sun dried tomatoes and blend a bit more.
- Now add the cumin, cayenne, chopped coriander and soy sauce to the blender and blend until the mixture looks coarse and blended. scrap down the sides during the blending if necessary.
- Turn out the mixture into a bowl ready to use.
- Now prepare the Mango and green chilli salsa
- Take the Gem lettuce and separate the leaves and rinse and shake them dry.
- Now take a tablespoon of the walnut mixture and place it on an individual gem leaf. Put a tablespoon of the mango and green chilli salsa on top of the walnut mixture. Repeat until all the gem lettuce is used up or the walnut mixture
Nutrition
(All nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more).