One-Pan Cheeseburger Lettuce Wraps
with Crispy Fried Onions, Pickles & Special Sauce
- Eggs
- Milk
- Wheat
How do you make a cheeseburger more fun? Skip the bun! These lettuce wraps feature all the classic burger fixin’s you love, stuffed inside romaine for a crunchy twist. First, ground beef is cooked with melty cheddar, then the filling is nestled into lettuce leaves and topped with crispy fried onions, chopped pickles, and special sauce. Yep, this lettuce wrap is one of those things you’ll have to see to be-leaf!
Ingredients
1 unit
Baby Lettuce
1 unit
Sliced Dill Pickle
2 tablespoon
Mayonnaise
(Contains: Eggs)
2 tablespoon
Ketchup
2 teaspoon
Dijon Mustard
1 tablespoon
Fry Seasoning
10 ounce
Ground Beef
1 unit
Beef Stock Concentrate
½ cup
Cheddar Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit
Crispy Fried Onions
(Contains: Wheat)
Not included in your delivery
1 teaspoon
Cooking Oil
Salt
Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Wash and dry produce. • Trim and discard root end from lettuce; separate leaves. Thinly slice 1-2 small center leaves until you have 1⁄3 cup shredded lettuce (2⁄3 cup for 4 servings). Drain pickle; roughly chop.
• In a small bowl, combine mayonnaise, ketchup, half the mustard, and 1⁄2 tsp Fry Seasoning (you’ll use more in the next step). (For 4 servings, use all the mustard and 1 tsp Fry Seasoning.) Stir in water 1 tsp at a time until sauce reaches a drizzling consistency. Set aside.
• Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add beef*, remaining Fry Seasoning, salt, and pepper. Cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until browned and almost cooked through, 3-5 minutes. • Stir in stock concentrate and 1⁄4 cup water (1⁄3 cup for 4 servings). Cook, stirring, until liquid has absorbed and beef is cooked through, 2-3 minutes. TIP: If there’s excess grease in your pan, carefully pour it out. • Add half the cheese; stir until melted, 1 minute (save the rest for serving).
• Divide lettuce leaves between plates. Fill with beef mixture, pickle, shredded lettuce, crispy fried onions, remaining cheese, and special sauce. Serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Sep 2026- Flavor: The special sauce, crispy fried onions, and pickles deliver a satisfying cheeseburger flavor — many said it tasted just like a Big Mac 🍔.
- Ease of prep: This is a genuinely quick, one-pan meal that comes together fast; the hardest part is keeping the filling inside the lettuce.
- Suggestions: Add diced tomatoes and a sprinkle of extra cheese to round out the flavors; some also stirred pickle juice into the sauce in place of water for a tangier kick. Skip the added oil when browning the beef — the fat from the meat is enough, and extra oil makes it greasy.
- Leftovers: The filling keeps well and works great as a salad the next day; assemble wraps fresh rather than ahead of time, as the lettuce wilts quickly once filled.
- Lettuce: The leaves were often too small to wrap properly — many customers chopped the lettuce and served everything as a salad bowl instead, which worked just as well.
- Portions: Some found the amount of ground beef too small relative to the other ingredients; upgrading to a larger beef portion helps balance the wraps.
Reviews from our home cooks
Wasn't sure about the lettuce wrap, but love a good cheeseburger, so I tried it. Just absolutely fantastic, I loved it. The sauce, the pickle and the crunchy onions were all perfect additions. Nice job Chef.
This was super easy to make and it was a great meal for a hot day as it was all in one pan. I like the change of lettuce wraps instead of bread for the "cheeseburgers."
Good but can be greatly improved with addition of 1 onion and 1 tomato as follows: finely chop 3/4 of onion and add to pan with beef to brown together. Follow other steps as usual but at the end garnish the wraps with the remaining 1/4 of raw onion, thinly sliced, along with tomato, diced. Huge flavor boost and more like a cheeseburger!
This was difficult to eat even when I doubled up the lettuce leaves. My second meal I put each wrap on a piece of waxed paper to help contain the filling. Plus side delicious pickles and very easy to make only one cutting board and one pan to cook the beef mixture. I have a little left over and I think I will just make a salad with those
Delicious flavor and everyone loved the sauce! I love the lettuce wrap idea for a healthier choice but our kids aren't big lettuce wrap fans so we threw theirs in tortillas for cheeseburger burritos!
The Cheeseburger lettuce wraps are delicious. However, I would really prefer ground beef that isn't so high in fat. A 90/10 ground beef would be a lot healthier.
Very good. Still filling and hearty with seasoned beef and cheese, but fresh and crisp as a lettuce wrap. The pickles made the dish.
These are now my fave lettuce wrap...Really tastes like a cheeseburger without the bun. Delicious! The special sauce is the star of this meal.
Once again, all ingredients were very fresh. Enjoyed this low carb meal very much. Loved the cheeseburger flavors in the crisp lettuce cups. I could definitely eat this one again.
I did not think I was going to like this because lettuce wraps can be really hit/miss..THIS WAS FIRE. wow so fast to make/cook and soooooo good it was like a big mac in a lettuce wrap so good. love.
