Chicken Lettuce Wraps with Spicy Peanut Sauce (THM S, E or FP by Tweaking)
I love chicken lettuce wraps! I remember several years ago my father & mother-in-law told my husband and I to try the chicken lettuce wraps at a restaurant… oh my oh my! I loved the spicy tangy peanut sauce over the cooked veggies and chicken. Then putting it in a crisp cold lettuce “taco”… just smelling it made my taste buds water! Big bite… it’s like an Asian adventure in my mouth! Yum YUM! Well, I had to make some THM approved, without all the sugar and corn starch. Worked on it last night… had it for dinner. Perfect! Sweet, Sour, Tangy, Salty, Crisp… once again my taste buds explode! And it isn’t as hard as you might think to make! Most of the ingredients you should have around the house (if you like spice)!
Start with cutting up the chicken breasts in chunks. Easy enough.
Get this cooking in a big skillet with some olive oil.
Mix the spices together.
Gather and chop the veggies.
Add the spice and veggies to the cooked chicken.
Cook all the ingredients until the veggies are tender.
Now to work on the peanut sauce.
That is all! Make sure the iceberg lettuce is really crisp. Scoop up a bunch of the chicken, put in a lettuce taco, drizzle peanut sauce over it, take a big, ENJOY!
If you follow Trim Healthy Mama this would be an S meal as shown in the pictures but you can also tweak it to be either E or FP. To make it E add in some brown rice. Also, cook the chicken in just a small amount of oil. And then tweak the peanut sauce by adding peanut flour instead of peanut butter. Doing that will also make the sauce FP! 🙂 If you would like to purchase THM Peanut Flour you can go here… THM STORE (aff link).
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Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Description
A spicy, tangy, sweet & sour Asian dish that is sure to please. An S meal but can be tweaked to be an E or FP.
Ingredients
- Chicken Mixture-
- For an S-
- 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts- chopped
- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 large head of ice berg lettuce- cold
- 2 zucchinis- chopped
- 1/2 of a red onion- chopped
- 3 green onions- chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic- chopped
- 1 large handful of cilantro- chopped
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp lemon pepper
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/2 tsp ginger powder
- 1 tbsp. vinegar
- Salt to taste
- For an E simply use less oil and add in brown rice to the above ingredients.
- For an FP you can use less oil as well. You can change the chicken out for shrimp.
- Peanut Sauce (S)-
- 1/4 cup sugarfree peanut butter
- 1/4 cup liquid aminos
- 2 tbsp. vinegar (white)
- 2 tbsp. water
- 1/2 green onion chopped fine
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/2 tsp ginger powder
- 1 tsp of Texas Pete Hot Sauce (or your brand hot red pepper sauce)
- 10–12 drops of liquid stevia (or 1 tsp of truvia or 1/2 tsp THM Sweet Blend)
- Salt to taste
- To Make the Peanut Sauce (FP), simply replace the peanut butter with defatted peanut flour, equal parts.
Instructions
- Chicken Mixture-
- Heat skillet with a couple tablespoon of olive oil or coconut oil.
- Chop chicken and put into skillet.
- Cook chicken on medium heat till cooked through.
- Chop vegetables and add to chicken.
- Add all spices to chicken and vegetables.
- Allow to cook until veggies are tender.
- Peanut Sauce-
- Mix all ingredients together well. If too thick add a little more water.
- Carefully pull apart the ice berg lettuce to get your “wrap shells”.
- Fill with the chicken mixtures.
- Drizzle peanut sauce over the wraps.
- ENJOY!
Notes
- You could even add 1/3 to a 1/2 cup of dry roasted peanuts to the chicken mixture to give it an extra crunch!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6
Absolutely delicious! Thanks!
One of my favorites! Thank you!!
Looks amazing- I’m newer to the THM way and I’ve never heard of liquid amino. What is that and where can I find it. Also do you think it would work with a powder sweetener instead of a liquid? Thanks!!!
I find Bragg’s Liquid Aminos at my local HEB (grocery store). It’s like a soy sauce but not pumped for of grossness! 🙂 Yes, powdered sweetener would work just fine!! Just mix it well! 🙂
I just tried this recipe! I used tamari soy sauce and added two extra tbsp of sweetener because I’m used to more sweet lettuce wraps at my local chinese restaurants. I would recommend using a bit under 1/4th cup if you use tamari, but mine were absolutely delicious! Hands DOWN my favorite dinner now.
WONDERFUL!! 🙂
My entire family absolutely loved these! I made brown basmati rice to go with it for my kids and hubby and they gobbled it up. Even my dad, who is hard to please, had seconds. I made a batch as a freezer meal and it thawed perfectly. I put the raw chicken in a bag, then all the veggies in a smaller bag within. It was quick and easy to whip up. Thank you!
I really love this! PF Chang’s lettuce wraps have been pretty much my favorite food for several years, and this just Made Me Happy! 🙂
These are delicious! Our family has enjoyed them with ground beef and venison in place of the chicken. The spices are great.
My dear husband gobbled this up! He couldn’t get enough of it!
I want this right now! Haha, thank you so much! I am so glad he liked it!
I usually brown my chicken in FF chicken broth, adding a little at a time to fry pan, for my FP meals
YUM!
I would love to see this in the menu builder on the THM site, so glad to stumble upon it.
I will work on adding it in!! 🙂
Instead of drizzling the sauce on the chicken could I marinade the chicken in the peanut sauce ( w/ the defatted peanut flour) and still keep it a FP?
Yeah you could do that! And yes I think it would keep it in the FP mode!
I just love you for satisfying almost every craving I have and turning it into THM. You are gifted and a blessing!
HUGS!!!
Hi Sarah!
I have a question. Can I use the chicken and peanut sauce In this recipe and add it to some not naughty noodles? Still S right?
Yep you sure can!! 🙂
I made the S version tonight and we all loved it! I added a bag of frozen pepper and onion blend to it and omitted the hot sauce from the peanut dipping sauce to make sure it wasn’t going to be too spicy for my kiddos. It still had a kick to it, but it was perfect . Thank you for sharing your wonderful recipes!
This is a dumb question, maybe, but about how many pounds of chicken is this? Around here, six chicken breasts could weigh anywhere from two to eight pounds. I’m assuming they’re not the pound-plus breasts, but I’m planning to double this recipe for my family of nine and wondering if I really need to defrost ten to twelve pounds of chicken.
Hmmm… I think that’s a good 4 cups of cooked chicken or about 4 lbs, I think.