Tropical Steak Lettuce Wraps by Aleks Salkin
Guest Recipe Feature from Aleks
Course: lunch, Main Course
Cuisine: High Protein
Keyword: guest recipe, high protein, lettuce wrap, steak
Author: Aleks Salkin, RKC
- 1/2 pineapple Use half a fresh pineapple and dice it up
- 1 lb steak sirloin (Or favorite steak of your choice)
- 1 can black beans
- 1/2 cup cilantro fresh (chopped and loosely packed - or to preference)
- 1 onion Small onion, diced
- 3 jalapeno peppers fresh (Aleks suggests a mixture of serrano and jalapeno peppers - chopped fine)
- 1 head romaine lettuce Or any other sort of leafy green
Cook or grill the steak til it's done enough for your tastebuds (I always cook my steaks in olive oil or chili-infused olive oil and season them with salt and pepper and cook them pretty rare). At the same time, have your pineapple pre-diced and your black beans cooking in the microwave. Once the steak's done, dice it and throw it back into the pan along with the diced pineapple and black beans. Cook a little longer and let everything mix together.
Depending on how much or how little you want, you can add cilantro, onions and the peppers into the mix, or add it to each individual serving (I like to just throw it all in). To serve, take large, fresh Romaine lettuce leaves and spoon out enough to be able to wrap up in the leaf (kinda like a taco shell) and enjoy! Other options besides the Romaine lettuce might include collards, cabbage, or even corn tortillas. It's really, really good and doesn't require much of anything fancy.
About Aleks:
Aleks Salkin is an RKC from Omaha, NE who enjoys lifting heavy things and eating tasty, healthy food (among a variety of other things). His first dance with a kettlebell in 2008 sent him on a life-long journey in pursuit of strength, health, and all-around epicness that has brought him to the path of the RKC and HardStyle kettlebell training that he is on today.
Aleks is a trainer with Omaha Elite Kettlebell, a group centered out of Omaha's Southwest YMCA with more locations to come. He currently spreads pain and tough love out of his house, in other people's houses, in parks, and anywhere else he can track down his (willing) victims.
To contact Aleks, visit him online at his blog at http://alekssalkinrkc.blogspot.com/ or OmahaKettlebell.com
Aleks and his friend Ryan apparently made up this fast and easy little gem - Aleks provided the how to.