Easy Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Easy Chicken Lettuce Wraps are an easy chicken recipe with ingredients wrapped in crisp lettuce leaves, delicious lunch or an appetizer!
For these Chicken Lettuce Wraps, simply make the peanut-inspired dressing, chop the chicken and vegetables, and then mix together and let the guests assemble. For a fresh snack or meal, we also love these fresh summer spring rolls.
Easy Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Lettuce Wraps remind me of P.F. Changs, the restaurant that made chicken wraps go viral. And to show people how easy they are to make at home.
Our recipe tastes just as good, if not better!
Why we love this recipe
- You only need 20 minutes to make these fresh and delicious wraps.
- Serve them for an appetizer or main dish (delish for lunch!)
- Casual, easy recipe for any time of year!
Gather these simple ingredients
For the dressing:
- Peanut Butter: or any nut butter with a crunch
- Fresh ginger + garlic
- Olive oil
- Fresh lime juice
- Rice vinegar
- Dark brown sugar
- Honey
- Soy sauce: or you can use coconut aminos
- Chili paste, or some other hot sauce (optional)
- Peanuts: optional to chop for topping
- Kosher salt and black pepper
For the lettuce cups:
- Chicken: we use a rotisserie chicken
- Shredded red cabbage: you can mix in any kind of chopped cabbage
- Shredded carrots
- Red bell pepper
- Cilantro
- Boston bibb lettuce: or any lettuce that has sturdy lettuce leaves
Use a crunch-like textured peanut butter, preferably with no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives, and zero trans fats per serving.
You can also make this recipe gluten-free–a perfect snack for the summer months!
Optional to serve with our Asian Chicken Cranberry Salad (crowd-pleaser!)
How do you make lettuce wraps?
- Make the dressing in a food processor or blender by adding the peanut butter, ginger, garlic, oil, lime juice, vinegar, honey, sugar, soy sauce.
- Blend until smooth; salt and pepper to taste.
- Next, make the wraps. In a large bowl, toss the chicken, cabbage, bell pepper and cilantro.
- Add dressing to taste and toss.
- Arrange lettuce into two-ply cups and fill each with a scoop of the chicken. Serve!
Tips and substitutions:
- Instead of using rotisserie chicken, you can use ground chicken or ground turkey or beef. You can also use pulled pork.
- If you want to make vegetarian lettuce wraps, use tofu.
- Add your favorite veggies, like mushrooms, more bell peppers, and even zucchini. Fresh cucumbers also add a refreshing crunch.
- Use any nut butter: We’ve also used almond butter and cashew butter for this recipe. Make sure the nut butter has a crunch to it.
- You can garnish the wraps with fried rice noodles!
- Serve on the side sriracha mayo, chili garlic sauce, or peanut sauce.
- Optional to use the meat mixture in a lettuce wrap, or for grain, noodle, or rice bowls. Delish!
I love to feed people. It’s what I learned from my parents, and it’s fun. And when people come over, there’s usually food involved.
Set out drinks, fruit, and the ingredients.
And let your guests dive in!
ENJOY!
More Lettuce Wrap Recipes:
Crunchy Southwest Lettuce Wraps
BBQ Chicken and Pineapple Lettuce Wraps
Meatball Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Get the Recipe:
Easy Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
For the dressing:
- ½ cup Peanut Butter, or any nut butter with a crunch
- 1 Tbsp. grated fresh ginger
- 1 clove of garlic
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup fresh lime juice
- ¼ cup rice vinegar
- ¼ cup dark brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp. honey
- 2 Tbsp. soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp. chili paste, or some other hot sauce (optional)
- Kosher salt and black pepper
For the lettuce cups:
- 1 rotisserie chicken, meat roughly chopped (not shredded), bones and skin discarded
- 2 cups shredded red cabbage, or a mix of colored cabbage
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1 red bell pepper, seeded and finely chopped
- ½ cup chopped fresh cilantro, loosely packed
- 1 head Boston bibb lettuce, or any sturdy lettuce leaves
Instructions
- Make the dressing in a food processor or blender by adding the peanut butter, ginger, garlic, oil, lime juice, vinegar, honey, sugar, soy sauce. Blend until smooth; salt and pepper to taste.
Make the wraps:
- In a large bowl, toss the chicken, cabbage, bell pepper and cilantro. Add dressing to taste and toss.
- Arrange lettuce into two-ply cups and fill each with a scoop of the chicken. Serve!
Notes
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This was great. Easy to make and the sauce was delicious.
Fixed – Bake at 400 degrees F. :)
Lettuce wraps are my cheat dinner pretty much the entire summer. Especially when it’s clean the fridge day! everything goes in :)
I haven’t seen this new peanut butter! Love the idea of creamy with a crunchy texture
I love a good lettuce wrap – especially with all this sunny spring weather coming!
The perfect summer salad!!
I love using peanut butter in Asian inspired dishes. This looks so good and easy Sandy!
My family has fallen for these Simply Ground peanut butters. The texture is wonderful – I haven’t liked anything but a creamy peanut butter until now! Great lettuce wraps recipe, Sandy!
I love how simple and flavorful this is! And lettuce wraps are always fun to eat!!
Lettuce wraps are one of my favorite things! Especially when they have peanut butter…need to check out this peanut butter! Pinned!
Looks delicious!
First off, I love a good lettuce wrap! I need to check out Simply Ground, I have never seen it before! YUM!