These Healthy Chicken Lettuce Wraps are low calorie and high protein! You can have 1/4 the recipe (about 8 chicken lettuce wraps) for just 267 calories and each serving is packed with 23.3g of protein!
I like to make these as a healthy dinner, but you could also serve them as an appetizer or snack for get togethers.
Best of all, I used ground chicken in this healthy recipe, making it low cost! I know you’ll love this recipe!!
Healthy Chicken Lettuce Wraps
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Ingredients in Low Calorie Chicken Lettuce Wraps
If you don’t like or can’t have the cashews, you can swap them out for peanuts, water chestnuts, or skip them all together.
And you can easily make this a gluten free recipe with Tamai (gluten-free soy sauce) and a gluten-free miso paste.
Shopping List for Low Calorie Chicken Lettuce Wraps:
Low Calorie Chicken Lettuce Wraps:
- Olive oil spray
- Ground chicken
- Yellow onion
- Cashews
- Green onions
- Butter lettuce
Healthy Chicken Lettuce Wrap Sauce:
- Fresh ginger
- Garlic
- Miso paste
- Reduced sodium soy sauce (or Tamari)
- Peanut butter
- Honey
- Rice wine vinegar
- Sesame oil
- Red pepper flakes
- Pepper
How to Make Low Calorie Chicken Lettuce Wraps
I like to make a salad with any leftovers. It’s the perfect next day lunch, and is amazing cold! This is especially great with the smaller interior leaves of the butter lettuce.
I cut up the remaining lettuce, and toss leftover filling and the leaves together for a quick leftover salad.
How to Make Low Calorie Chicken Lettuce Wraps:
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat, spray witty olive oil.
- Add the chicken to the skillet and cook 5 minutes, crumbling and mixing as it cooks.
- Add in the onion and cook for an additional 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, add the sauce ingredients to a medium bowl and mix well.
- Pour the sauce over the chicken, and mix well to combine.
- Cook until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce is absorbed (about 5 minutes).
- Add in the cashews and mix well.
- Remove from the heat and top with green onions.
- Serve in butter lettuce leaves.
Healthy Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe
These Low Calorie Chicken Lettuce Wraps are easy and fast! They make a wonderful dinner, appetizer, snack, or side dish. I know you will love them, here are a few more recipes I think you’ll love.
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Low Calorie Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
Low Calorie Chicken Lettuce Wraps:
- Olive oil spray
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 1 yellow onion chopped
- ¼ cup chopped cashews
- 2 green onions sliced
- 1 head butter lettuce
Healthy Chicken Lettuce Wrap Sauce:
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger minced or grated
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- ½ teaspoon miso paste
- 2 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce or Tamari
- ½ tablespoon peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- ½ teaspoon sesame oil
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- ⅛ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat, spray witty olive oil.
- Add the chicken to the skillet and cook 5 minutes, crumbling and mixing as it cooks.
- Add in the onion and cook for an additional 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, add the sauce ingredients to a medium bowl and mix well.
- Pour the sauce over the chicken, and mix well to combine.
- Cook until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce is absorbed (about 5 minutes).
- Add in the cashews and mix well.
- Remove from the heat and top with green onions.
- Serve in butter lettuce leaves.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Chicken Lettuce Wraps
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