Weeknight Chicken + Avocado Lettuce Wraps

Serves: 2-4 people
Hands-on time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min

I grabbed this recipe out of one of those BH&G special issues that you find at the supermarket checkout stand.  It’s pretty true to the original but we are using leftover chicken instead of making it from scratch.  Since the chicken is a leftover from the fridge it helps to take it out and leave it on the counter for about an hour before serving so it isn’t so cold.  Sometimes I’ll even zap it in the microwave for 30 seconds before putting it on the salad.

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb leftover chicken (here’s a recipe for super easy baked chicken breasts if you don’t have any cooked chicken on hand)
• 1 lime
• 1 avocados
• 1/4 C chopped fresh cilantro
• 4 large leaves of organic romaine lettuce
• 4 Tbsp plain greek yogurt or skyr
• 1/2 bunch of scallions
• 1/2 sm container grape or cherry tomatoes
• optional garnish: corn tortillas (sliced into wedges or made into chips), olives, corn, pine nuts, additional lime vinaigrette (it adds calories though)

Tools

• 1 medium sharp knife
• 1 cutting board
• 1 medium mixing bowl
• citrus juicer
• 1-cup liquid measuring cup
• 1/4-cup dry measuring cup

Directions

1. Let chicken sit at room temperature for about an hour.
2. Squeeze juice from one half of one lime and put in a medium bowl.
3. Peel and de-seed the avocado and add avocado flesh to the bowl with the lime juice.  Mash lightly (there should still be large chunks visible).
4. Clean (if needed) and coarsely chop the cilantro and add to bowl and stir it all together.
5. Pull four leaves off of a head of romaine and rinse the leaves and pat them dry.  Put 2 leaves on each plate.
6. Divide avocado mixture and add by the spoonful to each leaf.
7. Slice and divide chicken into 4 portions and add to each leaf.
8. Squeeze lime juice from the remaining half, drizzling over the chicken on each leaf.
9. Top chicken with yogurt, onions, tomatoes, and garnish if using.

Tips and Timesavers

• Pre-chopped cilantro saves a bunch of time.
• Buying the lettuce already in individual leaves is more expensive than buying a whole head and processing it but in my opinion it’s worth it.  They’re uniform in size, clean, and dry.

Nutrition (g)

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• Serving Size: 2 leaves with filling
• Calories: 317
• Protein: 29
• Fat: 18
• Carbs: 12
• Fiber: 6
• Sugar: 3 <– not sure where this comes from, maybe the chips

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