Peanut Chicken Lettuce Wraps with Low-Fat Sauce

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These Chicken Lettuce Wraps with Peanut Sauce are filled with crunchy veggies, flavorful chicken and topped off with a homemade low-fat peanut sauce. Ready in less than 20 minutes, this easy, healthy and flavorful meal is a weeknight winner.

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Plate full of assembled lettuce wraps with chicken, cucumbers, bell peppers, carrots, peanuts and extra peanut sauce on top.

Crunchy, sweet, savory, and absolutely delicious…these chicken lettuce wraps have it all. With fresh ingredients, ground chicken and a flavorful but light peanut sauce, this easy meal is not only healthy, it’s also ridiculously yummy.

If you love this peanut sauce as much as I do, be sure to check out my cookbook which takes this sauce and uses it in 3 completely different ways!

It’s not just chicken you can add to lettuce wraps! Try lettuce wraps with Teriyaki Beef Bowls, Philly cheesesteak Sloppy Joes and Instant Pot Shredded Beef.

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Why you’ll love this recipe

All the flavors and textures wrapped in a lettuce wrap.
Low fat and high protein.
Low-carb, gluten-free and dairy-free.

Homemade peanut sauce

I could eat this low calorie peanut sauce every single day and not get bored. It’s easy to make, cheaper than buying store-bought and way healthier, with no preservatives or unnecessary sugars or salt. Goodbye bottle…helloooo homemade!

Made with PB2 instead of real peanut butter, you get the same savory peanut sauce with a fraction of the fat and calories. You can make your sauce as thick or thin as you like, by adding more water to the PB2 mix.

Ingredients and Substitutions:

These are the main ingredients and substitutions for chicken lettuce wraps with peanut sauce. See the recipe card below for the full ingredients list and instructions.

Ground chicken, bell pepper, carrots, green onions, cucumber, peanuts, butter lettuce and peanut sauce for wraps.

Ground Chicken: Use ground turkey, chicken breasts, rotisserie chicken or leftover chicken.
Syrup: Lite pancake syrup can be substituted, regular syrup, maple syrup or honey.
Coconut Aminos: soy sauce works fine here it is just a bit saltier.
Homemade Peanut Sauce: you can also use storebought if you don’t want to make Lower Calorie Peanut Sauce.

Variations

Bean sprouts and water chestnuts are excellent added too.
You can also use romaine lettuce, but I highly suggest the butter lettuce.

Dietary Modifications

This recipe is gluten-free and dairy-free as written.

How to make chicken lettuce wraps with peanut sauce (a step-by-step visual guide):

Step 1: make peanut sauce

Powdered peanut butter, water, cinnamon, syrup, coconut aminos, red curry paste, garlic and red pepper flakes in a mixing bowl for the peanut sauce.

In a medium bowl combine the peanut sauce ingredients (image 1).

Peanut sauce ingredients fully combined in a small bowl.

Mix until well combined and set aside (image 2).

Step 2: cook chicken

Ground chicken added to a hot skillet to cook.

Spray a large skillet over medium heat with nonstick cooking spray and add the ground chicken (image 3).

Ground chicken browned and broken into small pieces in a skillet.

Cook, breaking into bite-sized pieces until cooked through, approximately 5 minutes (image 4).

Step 3: add sauce to chicken

Some of the peanut sauce added to the cooked chicken in the skillet.

Once cooked through lower the heat to low and add ¼ cup of the peanut sauce (64g) to the cooked chicken (image 5).

Sauce stirred into the chicken to evenly coat it.

Mix to evenly coat the chicken in the sauce (image 6). Let the chicken simmer on low while you prepare your lettuce wraps.

Step 4: prep and assemble lettuce wraps

Evenly split the cooked chicken to each piece of lettuce, with desired add-ins like bell pepper, cucumber and carrots. Top with 2 Tbsp. (30g) peanut sauce and chopped green onions and peanuts.

Lettuce wraps with peanut chicken, bell peppers, carrots cucumbers, lime and peanuts on top with extra peanut sauce.

Expert Tip!

Double your peanut sauce and use it for chicken stir fry! Or add it to wraps, salads and sandwiches throughout the week.

Recipe FAQs

How to store leftover lettuce wraps?

Store these in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. Store your peanut sauce and cooked chicken separately, for the best flavor. If your sauce has thickened too much add a little bit of water to thin it out.

How to serve peanut chicken lettuce wraps?

Serve your lettuce wraps a little lime juice, sliced green onions or a sprinkle of sesame seeds.

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