Hello Fresh One Pan Pork Fajita Lettuce Wraps with Blue Corn Tortilla Chips & Lime Crema

One Pan Pork Fajita Lettuce Wraps Quick Review

Thoughts while cooking Lettuce Wrap Fajitas

HelloFresh allows members to view recipes online, which means you can buy ingredients to prepare a meal without spending $60+ on a weekly kit. The catch is that sometimes an ingredient may be hard to identify, and HelloFresh often sends higher quality ingredients than what you would get picking up a random generic package from the store.

The “One Pan Pork Fajita Lettuce Wraps’ included one long green pepper. A vague description that left me unsure if this should be prepared with something hot like a poblano or chili pepper or something mild like a bell pepper.

So what is a “Long Green Pepper”? The included pepper was different from any kind I had before. It had sections like a bell pepper, but it was long and brightly colored like a banana pepper. It also tasted closer to a sweet banana pepper than a bell. If I decide to recreate this meal without a Hello Fresh kit, I will either grab a banana pepper from my garden or an Anaheim Chili if I am in the mood for some extra spice.

It smelled so good!

The mixture of pepper, onion, and ground pork cooking smelled amazing. And it didn’t seem to hurt anything that I was out of white sugar, so I had to substitute dark brown. 

I got to pull out a fancy kitchen gadget!

The brightly flavorful Lime Crema gave me an opportunity to use that Lime Zester I got for our first HelloFresh meal! In general, recipes only seem to require basic kitchen equipment. (pots, pans, spatulas, bowls, etc…) But a lemon zester was something I did not have.

Was it easy?

Overall I am going to say this recipe was pretty easy to put together and clean up. The hardest parts were chopping the onion and remembering where I put our chicken stock concentrate. (The meal kit came with beef stock concentrate, but I am allergic so I had to make a substitution from my own pantry.)

What will I do differently the next time I make Hello Fresh Pork Fajita Lettuce Wraps?

This was truly delicious! The only changes that I plan to make next time are

#1. Serve with two lime wedges

#2. Cook a little longer to thicken the sauce more. I intentionally left the meat a little runny because I wanted to make sure it didn’t evaporate too much before my daughter was ready to fix her plate.

Family Thoughts – Not everybody loved this dish

My daughter said the lime was too strong in the Crema, and she isn’t a fan of blue corn chips. If she is home the next time I make this dish, I will make sure that we have plain sour cream and potato chips available for her plate.