One-Pan Steak & Onion Lettuce Wraps
with Cucumber Pico de Gallo & Lime Crema
- Milk
These hearty, flavorful steak lettuce wraps come together in a lightning-fast 30 minutes! You’ll pile a rib-sticking mix of premium sirloin steak and caramelized onion into crisp lettuce leaves. The party doesn’t stop there, though—it’s time to boost up that crunch factor. Top your wraps with extra shredded lettuce and cucumber-tomato pico de gallo, then drizzle with tangy, cooling lime crema for creamy contrast.
Ingredients
3 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit
Baby Lettuce
1 unit
Onion
10 ounce
Ranch Steak
1 clove
Garlic
1 unit
Mini Cucumber
4 ounce
Pico de Gallo
1 unit
Lime
1 tablespoon
Mexican Spice Blend
Not included in your delivery
1 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
1 tablespoon (tbsp)
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Wash and dry produce. • Halve, peel, and thinly slice onion. Quarter lime. Peel and mince or grate garlic. Trim and quarter cucumber lengthwise; slice into ½-inch-thick quarter-moons. Trim root end from lettuce; reserve 8 larger leaves for wraps (16 for 4 servings) and thinly slice remaining leaves.
• Heat a large drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and 1 tsp Mexican Spice Blend (2 tsp for 4 servings); cook, stirring occasionally, until onion starts to soften, 3-5 minutes. • Meanwhile, pat steak* dry with paper towels; thinly slice against the grain and season with remaining Mexican Spice Blend, salt, and pepper. • Once onion starts to soften, add 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4), sliced seasoned steak, and garlic to pan. Cook, stirring occasionally, until steak reaches desired doneness, 2-3 minutes more. Remove pan from heat and add a squeeze of lime juice; stir to combine.
• While steak cooks, in a medium bowl combine cucumber and pico de gallo; season with salt and pepper. Toss to combine; set aside until ready to serve. • In a small bowl, combine sour cream and a squeeze of lime juice. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
• Divide reserved lettuce leaves between plates; fill with steak and onion. • Top lettuce wraps with sliced lettuce and cucumber mixture (draining first); drizzle with crema. Serve with remaining lime wedges on the side.
Steak is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 145°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many enjoyed the tasty, flavorful steak; some found it needed more seasoning or spice for depth.
- Ease of prep: Quick and simple to make, though a few noted it took longer than expected.
- Suggestions: Consider dicing the steak smaller for easier eating; some preferred making it as a salad.
- Portions: Several found it light for a full meal; adding a side dish could make it more filling.
- Texture: The lettuce wraps were messy to eat; using larger leaves or doubling up helps contain fillings.
Reviews from our home cooks
I wanted to like this more, but it ended up just too... juicy. Too liquidy, with the crema & the cucumber pico & the onion ultimately becoming a hodge-podge of drippage. I will not be making lettuce wraps again for the leftover portion, I'll shred the rest of the lettuce for a chopped salad instead. The steak was excellent but the overall impression was not exciting.
Taste was fine. The cucumber tomato salad was too wet and made the lettuce wraps taste wet and messy to eat. The protein should have been ground beef instead of steak. The larger pieces made eating the lettuce wraps very difficult. We had to chop the pieces up small. The recipe took much longer than it should have.
We were licking the plate after we finished - the sauce and the lime crema was delicious! I really look forward to coming home after work and making these meals. The fact that everything is portioned out and you don't have to make lists, shop, stress or think about it - all you have to do is cook (which I enjoy) - is the best!
These wraps were so good, fast and easy to make. Love the flavors and the use of lettuce instead of taco shells.
Flavorwise they were good. The steak was a little chewy, and trying to eat them as a wrap is pretty much impossible. I just made a salad. Overall, a tasty meal.
Very good, however I sliced up an Anaheim chili and sauteed it with the onions. I just loved the extra bit of flavor from that. I think this recipe needed it.
The flavor was amazing, our lettuce was on the small side so it was very messy
The lettuce leaves were very small, couldn't fit much into them. I ended up just cutting them up with the steak and sauces as the leaves would not fold enough to hold them to eat them.
I ended up eating this as a salad instead of a wrap because of how juicy the steak was. It was so good.
Flavors were great. Suggestion would be to emphasize cutting cucumbers and meat into small pieces so that they fit better on the lettuce leaves.
