Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps: A weeknight meal for those nights you stay in, but feel like take-out! A gourmet-inspired dish, for beginner chefs!

If you love wrap recipes, then you’ll also love these chicken fajita wraps for an easy dinner recipe.

Why Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps

With an early start to planning dinner one day, I decided that I would give these wraps a try. The original recipe was created for a slow cooker, but most days I’m not that on top of my game, and I’m realizing at 4:00 that I never planned anything for dinner.

So my own little “stove-top” Asian chicken lettuce wrap recipe, was created.

I rarely cook with ground chicken, so when I saw it in the cast iron, it felt a little odd. I’m used to seeing dark ground beef sautéing away. So the white-meat “look,” took a few minutes to get used to, but quickly stole my heart when the dish was complete. I also use ground chicken in this easy chicken meatloaf recipe!

Ingredients for this Recipe

See full recipe card below for ingredients and instructions!

What you’ll need for this dish:

• 2 pounds ground chicken
• 3 Tablespoons minced garlic
• 1 red bell pepper cored and finely chopped
• ½ cup finely chopped yellow onion
• ½ cup hoisin sauce
• 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 8-ounce can sliced water chestnuts drained and rinsed
• 1-½ cups cooked white rice (or try this wild rice recipe!)
• 3 green onions sliced
• 1-½ teaspoons sesame oil
• 1 package butter lettuce

The ingredients are similar to my Asian sloppy joe recipe if you want to make those later too.

One-Pot Dish

I literally ate it RIGHT out of the pan, when it was complete. My husband was running late for dinner, and I wasn’t waiting. (It’s ok… we made that agreement early on in our marriage. Me + Hangry = Not something he wants to come home to.)

I decided to use butter lettuce from the store, and I’m SUPER happy with that decision. I usually buy “leaf” lettuce for my salads but decided to give the butter lettuce a try, and so glad that I did. It was perfect for small little servings, and has a natural curve to it, locking the Asian chicken inside a lot better than leaf lettuce.

Recipe

Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Jessica Burgess

These lettuce wraps are super easy to whip up and are a great low carb dinner option!

5 from 2 votes

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Asian

Servings 6 servings

Calories 309 kcal

Ingredients

• ▢ 2 pounds ground chicken
• ▢ 3 Tablespoons minced garlic
• ▢ 1 red bell pepper cored and finely chopped
• ▢ ½ cup finely chopped yellow onion
• ▢ ½ cup hoisin sauce
• ▢ 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
• ▢ salt and pepper to taste
• ▢ 1 8-ounce can sliced water chestnuts drained and rinsed
• ▢ 1-½ cups cooked white rice
• ▢ 3 green onions sliced
• ▢ 1-½ teaspoons sesame oil
• ▢ 1 package butter lettuce

Instructions

 

• Cook the ground chicken and garlic, until juices run clear.
• Add remaining ingredients, (except butter lettuce) and let cook through for 5 minutes, or so. Just long enough to let the flavors mesh together.
• To Serve: Scoop a couple of tablespoons into each lettuce leaf and serve.
• Or eat straight out of the pan like I did. 😉

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 309kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 130mg | Sodium: 799mg | Potassium: 923mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 680IU | Vitamin C: 28.7mg | Calcium: 31mg | Iron: 1.9mg

Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more.

Keywords asian tacos, lettuce tacos, low carb dinner recipes

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