Korean Beef Lettuce Cups (Diabetes, TM6)

Pickles

• 2 tbsp rice vinegar
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 8 ½ oz green cabbage thinly sliced
• 5 oz carrots (approx. 1), peeled and thinly grated
• 1 long red chili thinly sliced and deseeded, if preferred

Korean Beef

• 10 oz aged grass fed sirloin steak beef, trimmed and thinly sliced
• 2 fresh red chilies cut into halves and deseeded if preferred
• 1 fresh lemongrass cut into pieces (approx. 1½ in.)
• 6 garlic cloves
• 1 ½ in. fresh ginger peeled, sliced
• 1 oz water
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce

Rice

• 35 oz water
• 7 oz brown rice "low GI" (see Tip)
• 1 oz rice bran oil
• 12 baby romaine lettuce leaves, loose-leaf
• sesame oil to taste
• soy sauce, light to taste
• 12 sprigs cilantro leaves only
• 2 long red chilies thinly sliced and deseeded, if preferred
• 3 oz bean sprout, fresh
• 1 lime cut into wedges, to serve