Vegetable Chard Wraps With Spicy Lime-Ginger Dipping Sauce

INGREDIENTS

Spicy Lime-Ginger Dipping Sauce

1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons tahini

1 tablespoon brown rice syrup

1 1/2 teaspoon nama shoyu

1/2 lime, zest and juice

2 teaspoons minced ginger

1/2 minced jalapeño, seed and vein removed

Chard Wraps

4 rainbow chard or romaine lettuce leaves, cut in half vertically, stems removed

1-2 carrots, cut in matchsticks

1 beet, cut in matchsticks

1/2 cup sweet bell peppers, cut in matchsticks

1/2 bunch chives, cut in 3-inch pieces

Fresh basil leaves

Fresh mint leaves

DIRECTIONS

To make sauce: whisk together all ingredients in small bowl. Thin out with water if needed. Salt to taste.

To assemble wraps: On one end of the chard leaf, fill with a few leaves of basil and mint and matchsticks of carrots, beets, sweet pepper, and chives. Roll chard leaf tightly around filling. Serve with dipping sauce.

Makes 8 wraps.

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