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These Chicken Lettuce Wraps are a low carb flavor explosion! They’re made with the best homemade sauce along with carrots, peppers, green onions, peanuts, and more. It’s a 30 minute meal that you need in your rotation.
Chicken Lettuce Wraps
These Chicken Lettuce Wraps are the best quick and easy 30-minute meal with the most flavorful chicken filling! While lettuce wraps are my go-to way of serving this, you can also serve the filling over rice, noodles, and salads.
I have a feeling you’ll be making this recipe a lot, and the add-on options are endless! (It’s a great way to clean out your vegetable drawer!) Don’t miss my Pro Tips below!
The Flavor Profile- Amazing
The flavors in this filling include savory chicken broth, soy sauce, a little honey, garlic, a squeeze of lime juice, (an optional scoop of peanut butter– SO good!), a touch of sriracha, and sesame oil. A little cornstarch adds a thick and glossy finish that’s tossed with ground chicken, carrots, and bell peppers. It’s SO GOOD.
How to Make It
Note: This is an overview. See recipe card below this post for ingredient quantities and full instructions.
Season the chicken with salt and pepper and cook in peanut oil over medium-high heat until cooked through. Add garlic, julienned carrots, and bell peppers during the last minute.
Add the sauce mixture and bring it to a boil until thickened. Remove from heat and spoon into lettuce wraps. Garnish with green onions, peanuts, and sesame seeds and serve!
Pro Tips
- Grinding your own chicken: Feel free to grind your own chicken in a food processor. (I love my mini food processor!) – The price of ground chicken is at least a few dollars more per pound compared to chicken breasts.
- Ground Turkey can be used instead of ground chicken if preferred.
- Sriracha Sauce: The sriracha in this recipe doesn’t make it hot/spicy, it’s just a small amount that is used to enhance the other flavors. I use Frank’s Sriracha Sauce.
- To Control the Sodium in this recipe, consider using low sodium soy sauce and/or reduced sodium broth.
- Optional additions include diced water chestnuts, finely diced celery, shredded cabbage, radishes, mushrooms, zucchini, peas, and bean sprouts.
- This filling can be served over rice, noodles, or salad instead of in lettuce wraps if preferred!
- Perfect for Meal Prep: This filling is really easy to reheat in a skillet or the microwave, which makes it a wonderful make-ahead recipe and freezer food for a busy week!
Storage
- Store in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 4 days or freeze for up to 3 months.
- Leftover filling freezes really well. Let it thaw before reheating in a skillet or in the microwave.
Tools For This Recipe
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- 1 quart measuring cup with a spout– This is what I use to combine my sauce ingredients ahead of time.
- Mini Food Processor– I love this one. It’s cheaper to grind your own chicken breasts than to buy it ground.
- Measuring Spoons– I have these magnetic ones which stay nice and organized in my utensil drawer.
- 8-inch Chef’s Knife– This is the one I have, I love it.
- Cutting Boards- I love having assorted sizes. (One for the meat, one for the veggies, etc.)
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Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
Chicken Wraps
- 1 lb. ground chicken
- Salt/pepper
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil, can sub avocado or olive oil
- 3 cloves fresh garlic, minced
- 1/3 cup julienned carrots
- ½ red bell pepper, finely diced
- 1 tablespoon smooth peanut butter, optional
- 8 butter lettuce leaves, or romaine or iceberg
Sauce
- ½ cup chicken broth
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 teaspoon sriracha, can sub hot sauce
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Toppings
- 1/3 cup honey roasted peanuts
- 3 green onions, sliced
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
Instructions
- Whisk together the sauce ingredients and set aside. (Make sure the liquid isn’t warm so that it doesn’t activate the cornstarch.) Measure out the remaining ingredients before beginning.
- Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat and add the chicken. Cook for 6 minutes, stirring continuously. Add the garlic, carrots and peppers and cook for 1 more minute, or until the chicken is cooked through. Drain any excess liquid from the chicken if needed.
- Add the sauce and bring it to a boil. Stir in the peanut butter, if using. Once thickened, remove from heat. (This only takes a minute or two.)
- Spoon the filling into lettuce leaves and top with peanuts, green onions, and sesame seeds. Serve!
Notes
- Grinding your own chicken: Feel free to grind your own chicken in a food processor. (I love my mini food processor!) - The price of ground chicken is at least a few dollars more per pound compared to chicken breasts.
- Ground Turkey can be used instead of ground chicken if preferred.
- Sriracha Sauce: The sriracha in this recipe doesn’t make it hot/spicy, it’s just a small amount that is used to enhance the other flavors. I use Frank’s Sriracha Sauce.
- To Control the Sodium in this recipe, consider using low sodium soy sauce and/or reduced sodium broth.
- Optional additions include diced water chestnuts, finely diced celery, shredded cabbage, radishes, mushrooms, zucchini, peas, and bean sprouts.
- This filling can be served over rice, noodles, or salad instead of in lettuce wraps if preferred!
- Perfect for Meal Prep: This filling is really easy to reheat in a skillet or the microwave, which makes it a wonderful make-ahead recipe and freezer food for a busy week!
Storage:
- Store in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 4 days or freeze for up to 3 months.
- Leftover filling freezes really well. Let it thaw before reheating in a skillet or in the microwave.
Nutritional information is an estimate and is per wrap. This recipe makes 8 lettuce wraps.
This recipe is fantastic. I used Mike’s Hot Honey and it was the perfect kick it needed.
Some hot honey is the perfect addition, I’m so happy you’re enjoying this one Kayl!! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a review!💖
Great flavor! So easy. Will make again. Mine did end up with a bit too much liquid at the end. Do you drain your chicken before adding the sauce?
Thanks so much!
Hey Holly! If you do have excess liquid I would drain it before adding the veggies and sauce. I’ll make a note of that just in case! But I’m glad you enjoyed it!
AMAZING flavor. Definitely making these again and again, whole family loved them. Thank you!
Ohhh AWESOME Sheila!! I’m so happy that you loved them as much as we do, the filling is my weakness! 🙂 Thank you so much for the review, I really appreciate it! -Stephanie
Decided to make these while stopping at the store on the way home today. Absolutely delicious! Perfect quick summer dinner. The sauce was amazing with just a teeny tiny dash of heat. I did the peanut butter and celery additions, and we topped ours with green onions. Also had the idea to use some of the crispy noodles leftover from you r Chinese chicken salad on top as well. So quick, easy and yum!
Nice work Lex!! I love your tweaks, especially adding some crispy noodles on top!! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment!!❤️