Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Difficulty : Super easy
Preparation time:
10m
Cooking time:
15m
You’ll find these tasty morsels on the menu of most nice Chinese restaurants. Soy sauce is a fermented food, high in sodium and not particularly healthy. We’ve substituted garlic and tahini paste for flavour but use soy sauce if you like.
Ingredients
For 1 people (
)
Recipe
- 2 inch piece Ginger
- 2 Chicken Breast
- 0.5 Onion
- 1 Carrot(s)
- 1 handful(s) Almond flakes
- 1 handful(s) Fresh Coriander
- Sea Salt
- Black Pepper
- 2 tablespoon(s) Olive Oil
- 1 tablespoon(s) Sesame Oil
- 1 tablespoon(s) Tahini Paste
- 1 Garlic clove(s)
- Lemon
- Lettuce Leaves
Nutritional Facts (per serving)
- Kcal: 873 kcal
- Sugars (g): 5g
- Carbs: 14g
- Fat: 62g
- Saturated fat (g): 9g
- Proteins: 69g
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Directions
- Slice the chicken breasts into thin strips.
- Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a frying pan over a medium high heat. Add the chicken strips, season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, and fry until fully cooked. Remove from pan.
- Meanwhile, finely slice the onion and carrot. Finely chop the coriander.
- Finely chop the ginger and garlic.
- For the dressing, mix together the remaining tablespoon of olive oil, the sesame oil, tahini paste, and chopped ginger and garlic.
- Combine the cooked chicken strips, onion, carrot, almonds, and coriander in a mixing bowl. Season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Fold the dressing into the chicken mixture. Add a squeeze of lemon juice.
- Wrap the chicken mixture in lettuce leaves to serve.
Tags:
Paleo lunch, Lettuce wraps, Chinese chicken
