Healthy Chicken Lettuce Wraps

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Healthy Chicken Lettuce Wraps topped with Asian-inspired sesame soy dressing come together in minutes using leftover chicken. Completely transform last night's dinner with this cook once, eat twice meal!

I sure hope you have leftover rotisserie chicken or baked lemon pepper chicken. If so, these easy Chicken Lettuce Wraps are ready before you can say dinner's ready.

It's a sound meal-planning strategy to make extra chicken when you're cooking!

Of course, the chicken filling can be rolled in flour tortillas. But adding the tasty filling to the center of big leafy greens not only makes them low-carb and gluten-free, but they're delicious too.

They're fun to eat too. It's like eating a salad with with your hands.

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• Ingredients
• Best Lettuce for Lettuce Wraps
• Sesame Soy Dressing
• Assembly
• Storage
• More Leftover Chicken Recipes
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Ingredients

Here's what you'll need to make healthy chicken lettuce wraps:

• Thinly sliced cabbage - I used a bagged coleslaw mix with green and red cabbage and carrots. Any type will work. I love it when the bag comes with lots of extra goodies.
• Fresh cilantro and green onions add additional flavor but can be left out.
• Cashews add a nice crunch but are optional.
• Big leafy green lettuce leaves - See more on the best types below.
• Cooked chicken, diced or shredded - Rotisserie chicken works great, and so does baked blackened chicken breasts.

Best Lettuce for Lettuce Wraps

Lettuce with large leaves makes the best cups for lettuce wraps. Red or green leaf lettuce, iceberg lettuce, and romaine lettuce are sturdy and crisp. The thick ribs down the center of each leaf make these leaves easy to hold.

Bib lettuce and butter lettuce are tender and also perfect for chicken lettuce wraps. It's easy to overlap these types of lettuce around the filling, but they're a little harder to hold.

Sesame Soy Dressing

We borrowed the Asian-inspired sesame soy dressing used in Ramen Noodle Napa Cabbage Salad to bring the ingredients in these healthy chicken wraps together. Here's what you'll need to make it:

• Canola oil or other mild oil, like avocado oil.
• Honey to sweeten the sauce.
• Rice vinegar - Unseasoned contains additional sweetener and salt. If unseasoned rice vinegar is used, the taste will be impacted.
• Soy sauce or coconut aminos.
• Sesame oil imparts a rich sesame flavor.

Assembly

There are a number of different ways to assemble chicken lettuce wraps. Here's how we do it.

1. Dice or shred chicken into bite-sized pieces.
2. Wash and thoroughly dry lettuce leaves and set aside.
3. Combine sliced cabbage, chopped green onions, and chopped cilantro in a large bowl. Toss with sesame soy dressing, reserving a few tablespoons of the dressing for drizzling over the finished wraps or to use as a dipping sauce.
4. Divide the cabbage and chicken mixture between the lettuce leaves, top with cashews, and drizzle with additional dressing.

Storage

It's best to store the ingredients for chicken lettuce wraps separately if possible. Store chicken in an airtight container for 2-3 days. Place lettuce leaves in a resealable bag with a paper towel to absorb excess moisture.

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