Char Siu Pork Lettuce Wraps
- 25 mintotal time
- $2.44£2.16a serving
- 540503calories
- 3235 gprotein
Serves 4; price is an estimate. Dinner Plan is a paid weekly plan for your household and budget. You see your week before you pay.
Pork tenderloin strips in a sticky hoisin and honey glaze, wrapped in lettuce cups with noodles and pepper.
Ingredients
Serves 4.
- 1 lb pork tenderloin, thinly sliced into strips
- 2 oz hoisin sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, finely grated
- 8 oz flat rice noodles
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 iceberg lettuce, leaves separated
- 1 bell pepper, red, cut into thin strips
- ½ bunch green onions, thinly sliced
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 tsp sesame seeds
Contains: soy, sesame. Check the label: wheat (gluten), mustard. Always read the labels if you cook for someone with an allergy.
Method
- Soak the rice noodles in a large bowl of just-boiled water for 6–8 minutes until soft, then drain, rinse with cold water and toss with the rice vinegar and 1 teaspoon of the vegetable oil.
- Mix the hoisin, honey, soy sauce, garlic and ground cinnamon. Toss the pork with 2 tablespoons of this glaze. Wash your hands after handling the raw meat.
- Heat the rest of the oil in a large frying pan on high heat and, using tongs, cook the pork in two batches for 2–3 minutes per batch, turning once, until browned and just cooked through (145°F); for pregnant people, cook until no pink remains (160°F).
- Return all the pork to the pan with the rest of the glaze and bubble for 1 minute until sticky. Take off the heat and let it rest for 2 minutes.
- Fill the cup-shaped leaves of lettuce with noodles, pork, strips of bell peppers and the green onions, and scatter with the sesame seeds.
Leftovers: The pork keeps in the fridge for 2 days; reheat until piping hot and assemble fresh.
Ingredients
Serves 4.
- 500 g pork fillet (tenderloin), thinly sliced into strips
- 60 g hoisin sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, finely grated
- 250 g flat rice noodles
- 25 ml rice vinegar
- 1 iceberg lettuce, leaves separated
- 1 pepper (red, yellow or green), red, cut into thin strips
- ½ bunch spring onions, thinly sliced
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 tsp sesame seeds
Contains: soya, sesame. Check the label: gluten, mustard. Always read the labels if you cook for someone with an allergy.
Method
- Soak the rice noodles in a large bowl of just-boiled water for 6–8 minutes until soft, then drain, rinse with cold water and toss with the rice vinegar and 1 teaspoon of the vegetable oil.
- Mix the hoisin, honey, soy sauce, garlic and ground cinnamon. Toss the pork with 2 tablespoons of this glaze. Wash your hands after handling the raw meat.
- Heat the rest of the oil in a large frying pan on high heat and, using tongs, cook the pork in two batches for 2–3 minutes per batch, turning once, until browned and just cooked through (63°C); for pregnant people, cook until no pink remains (71°C).
- Return all the pork to the pan with the rest of the glaze and bubble for 1 minute until sticky. Take off the heat and let it rest for 2 minutes.
- Fill the cup-shaped leaves of lettuce with noodles, pork, strips of peppers and the spring onions, and scatter with the sesame seeds.
Leftovers: The pork keeps in the fridge for 2 days; reheat until piping hot and assemble fresh.
Nutrition per serving
| Calories | 540 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 32 g |
| Carbohydrate | 71 g |
| Fat | 13 g |
| Fiber | 4 g |
| Sodium | 654 mg |
| Calories | 503 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 35 g |
| Carbohydrate | 68 g |
| Fat | 10 g |
| Fibre | 5 g |
| Sodium | 640 mg |
Worked out from the ingredients, 406 g a serving; optional extras and salt to taste aren't counted. US and UK values differ a little because each uses that country's food data and products. US values from USDA FoodData Central.UK values from McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
What it costs
About $2.44 a serving in the US (range $1.87–$3.24) and £2.16 in the UK (range £1.65–£2.86). That's the share of each ingredient this recipe uses; basics like oil, salt and spices aren't counted.
Prices are estimates. Item prices come from public price data where available (US: Bureau of Labor Statistics and USDA; UK: Office for National Statistics). Where that data has no match, we use our own estimate. Ranges set using Open Prices data (Open Food Facts, ODbL). Prices as of October 2026. How we estimate
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