For yet another way to use up turkey leftovers after a big holiday or if you just buy a lot of turkey deli meat, this cranberry turkey lettuce wrap will hit the spot!
I recently saw a recipe that used lettuce and butcher paper to create a sandwich burrito and knew I had to try it with my favorite fall sandwich recipe! Admittedly, that was the inspiration behind this particular recipe, but once I got going, I knew this was a keeper.
A recipe like this is fun to make with lettuce as the wrap. You'll need a head of lettuce whose leaves are large enough to work here. Try something like iceberg, romaine, or even bibb lettuce. They all tend to be big enough to use as wrap substitutes. You get extra nutrition from the veggie—and it also keeps this sandwich gluten-free and potentially low-carb, depending on how much cranberry sauce you slap on!
All the ingredients get layered carefully. Cranberry sauce, bacon, avocado and pears, create a refreshing sandwich that you can easily make if you’re working from home, or prep ahead of time and take with you. Either way, this will turn out great and give you all the warm, fall flavors that you can't resist. So delicious!
Cranberries often go hand in hand with turkey because let's face it, turkey could use some jazzing up. It's loaded with protein but it tends to be a little bland. But cranberries are loaded with antioxidants and have been studied for their antiviral and antibacterial purposes, too. (Perhaps you've sipped cranberry juice straight to fight a UTI—or taken capsules with cranberry powder in them?) On their own, cranberries are incredibly tart, which is why they're often cooked down in a little sugar to make fresh cranberry sauce, or sugar is added to the canned kind you often buy for holidays.
If you love cranberries, you might want to try our Cranberry BBQ vegan meatballs. They're delicious even if you're not exclusively following a plant-based diet.
Of course, making these is a stellar way to use up Thanksgiving or holiday leftovers when there's just more turkey than you know what to do with!
Chicken would be a fine substitute for this recipe instead of turkey. Also, thinly sliced apples taste great with turkey and chicken if your pear is not ready for prime time; i.e., it's just not ripe yet!
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