Easy Chicken Lettuce Wraps with Peanut Sauce
User Reviews
5
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Prep Time
5 mins
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Cook Time
10 mins
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Total Time
15 mins
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Servings
8 wraps
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Calories
471 kcal
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Course
Main Course
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Cuisine
Thai
Easy Chicken Lettuce Wraps with Peanut Sauce
Description
The recipe features ground chicken sautéed with aromatics including ginger, garlic, and the white part of green onions, flavored with a whisked peanut sauce consisting of peanut butter, sesame oil, honey, soy sauce, and water. After cooking, the mixture is finished off with jicama for crunchy texture and the green parts of green onions for freshness.
The lettuce leaves serve as edible cups, providing crispness that contrasts the tender chicken mixture. Adding cooked brown rice makes the wraps more filling, while chopped cucumber and parsley add extra crisp, herbaceous notes. A squeeze of lime juice enhances the overall flavor with acidity.
These wraps can be adapted using ground turkey or beef as alternatives to chicken.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp water
- 2 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp hot pepper chopped (optional)
- 1/4 cup green onions chopped
- 1 tbsp ginger minced
- 1 tbsp garlic minced
- 1 1/2 cups ground chicken
- 1 cup jicama chopped
- 1 cup brown rice cooked
- 6-8 lettuce washed, leaves
- 1 cup cucumber chopped into semicircles
- 1/2 cup parsley chopped
- 1 lime if desired
Instructions
- In a small bowl, add peanut butter, sesame oil, water, honey, and soy sauce. Whisk together and set aside.
- Pour the olive oil into a large skillet and fry the white end of the green onion, ginger, and garlic (to make it spicy also add hot pepper) on a medium heat setting. After 1 minute, add the ground chicken.
- After 3-4 minutes of cooking on medium-high heat, add the mixed peanut sauce ingredients from earlier. Turn off the heat. Add the Jicama and the green end of the onion.
- Scoop the chicken mixture and rice onto lettuce leaves.
- Add chopped cucumber and parsley. Squeeze some key lime juice on top. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
- Ground turkey or ground beef can be used as substitute for ground chicken.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 8wraps
Amount Per Serving
Calories 471 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1wrap | |
| Calories | 471kcal | 24% |
| Carbohydrates | 28.8g | 10% |
| Protein | 40.7g | 81% |
| Fat | 20.4g | 31% |
| Saturated Fat | 5.2g | 26% |
| Cholesterol | 105mg | 35% |
| Sodium | 373mg | 16% |
| Potassium | 241mg | 5% |
| Fiber | 2.9g | 12% |
| Sugar | 6g | 12% |
| Calcium | 27mg | 3% |
| Iron | 3mg | 17% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
User Reviews
Overall Rating
5
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