This cashew chicken lettuce wraps recipe takes less than 35 minutes to make and is a family favorite! Ingredients include lettuce, ground chicken, avocado oil, onion, green pepper, water chestnuts and a sauce that is out of this world! It is a perfect weeknight meal, kid-friendly, dairy-free and delicious.
This recipe is adapted from the Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps from Joy Food Sunshine. Our family mostly stays away from peanuts so I’ve substituted the peanut butter with cashew butter, and the peanut oil with avocado oil, and a few other minor changes. However, if you are a peanut butter fan, please check out her recipe!
Recipe Notes
Use whatever lettuce you prefer, green lettuce like Romaine is great but you can also play around with collard greens or even swiss chard! Just as long as the leaves are big enough and work for holding in the filling.
I prefer to use ground chicken for this recipe but I’ve also use ground turkey and no one complains!
This recipe uses small amounts of a variety of different sauces… I was a little overwhelmed at first at all the sauces I needed to buy, but this recipe has become part of my rotation and has been totally worth it!
Feel free to use a garnish if you want, sometimes I do spiralized carrots (using this spiralizer) but you can also do cashew pieces. It is also just fine without a garnish at all.
Cashew Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe
Cashew Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe
This cashew chicken lettuce wraps recipe takes less than 30 minutes to make and is a family favorite! Ingredients include lettuce, ground chicken, avocado oil, onion, green pepper, water chestnuts and a sauce that is out of this world! It is a perfect weeknight meal, kid-friendly, dairy-free and delicious. This recipe is adapted from the Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps recipe on Joy Food Sunshine.
Ingredients
Chicken Filling
- 1 lb ground chicken (or ground turkey)
- 1 tablespoon avocado oil
- 1 small onion, minced
- 1 small green bell pepper, diced
- 1 8 oz can water chestnuts, drained
Sauce
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce (or coconut aminos)
- 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon cashew butter
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 2 teaspoons sweet chili sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ginger powder
Lettuce& Garnish
- 2 medium carrots, spiralized
- 1 head lettuce of choice
Instructions
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In a bowl, whisk together all sauce ingredients until well combined.
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In large frying pan heat up 1 tablespoon of avocado oil and then add ground chicken. Cook chicken 3-5 minutes or until it begins to brown. Add diced onions to browned chicken and cook for another 3-5 minutes or until the onions are fragrant and start to soften. Add bell peppers and water chestnuts and cook for another 3-5 minutes or until the bell peppers are tender crisp.Â
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Slowly pour in sauce and mix until the chicken and veggies are evenly coated with sauce, about 3 minutes.
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To serve, scoop filling into lettuce and garnish with carrots spirals.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition facts are based on one serving, which is 1/6th of the recipe.Â
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These sound delicious! My kids would definitely enjoy these.
I hope your family enjoys, Bintu!
That looks like a delicious lunch or light dinner for the summer time! I’m giving it a try tonight!
Glad you are trying them out, enjoy Beth!
My favourite way to eat — stick some meat into lettuce wraps. Loved it, thank you.
Totally, I love how you don’t feel over-full after lettuce wraps!
What a great weeknight meal perfect for any family. The sauce looks perfectly flavored that is sure to be enjoyed by all.
The sauce is really quite delicious. Thanks, Kelly.
I love these types of dishes! Fresh and healthy and easy to make by the looks! This would be so great for an easy weeknight meal!
Thanks Georgie. Yes, totally perfect for a weeknight meal because it comes together so quickly.
Lettuce wraps are one of my favorite things and you have love how healthy this is. It’s a major weeknight win!
Definitely great for weekends. Thanks, Diana.
What a perfect family-friendly meal! Love love lettuce wraps. Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks Sapana, enjoy.
These sound delicious! And love that you swapped the peanuts for cashew butter. Yum!
Thanks, Lisa! The cashew butter adds a nice flavor!
Unique and perfect dish for a party platter. Looks yum and delicious and surely a must try option.
Thanks Veena!