Healthy Chicken Lettuce Wraps

The most flavorful Chicken Lettuce Wraps you have ever tasted. This ingredient combo creates an explosion of taste and texture.

Course Main Course

Cuisine International

Keyword chicken lettuce wraps, healthy lettuce wraps

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 10

Servings people

Calories 409kcal

Ingredients

40 g basil leaves (2 hands full)
20 g cilantro leaves (1 hand full)
1 Tbsp honey agave nectar for vegan version
3 cloves garlic
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1 Tbsp soy sauce or tamari
2 Tbsp tahini unsweetened and unsalted
2 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 lemon (juice only)
1 head butter lettuce
1/2 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs
1/2 avocado
1/2 cup pineapple chunks
1 carrot
microgreens (optional)
sea salt
pepper

Instructions

Add basil leaves, cilantro leaves, honey, garlic, rice vinegar, soy sauce, tahini, olive oil, and lemon juice to a blender and blend on high until no more bits of herbs are left.
Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces and pan-fry over medium heat in some oil until cooked through. Season lightly with sea salt and pepper while pan-frying.
Wash and spin-dry lettuce leafs making sure they are 100% dry. Peel and grate carrot. Peel and slice avocado. Cut pineapple into chunks.
To assemble the wraps, add a lettuce wrap flat on a plate, add a few chicken pieces, a little grated carrots, a few pineapple chunks, a few slices of avocado, some microgreens and then drizzle with the tahini sauce. Eat immediately and then assemble the next one.

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Notes

Nutrition information for half the recipe using about 1/4 of the whole tahini sauce for that half of the recipe.

Nutrition

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