Sweet and Spicy Chicken Lettuce Wraps
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Serves: 6 servings
 
Ingredients
  • 1½ cup cider vinegar
  • ½ cup water
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 Serrano chile pepper, cut into thin slices (less if you don't like it spicy)
  • 1cup matchstick carrots
  • 3 cups shredded chicken
  • 12 Bibb lettuce wraps
  • 12+ cucumber slices, cut into quarters
  • ⅓ cup fresh mint leaves, thinly sliced
  • 6 tablespoons slivered almonds (or sub dry-roasted peanuts chopped)
  • lime wedges
Instructions
  1. In a medium sauce pan combine the first 6 ingredients. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes, until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and add matchstick carrots. Let stand 10 minutes. Add chicken and let it sit for about 5 minutes. Drain, discard liquid and transfer chicken mixture to a bowl.
  2. Place ¼ cup chicken on each lettuce wrap, top with 1 Tablespoon diced cucumber, 1-2 teaspoons fresh mint and a 1½ teaspoons of slivered almonds.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Cooking Light, March 2014
Recipe by Nutritious Eats at https://www.nutritiouseats.com/sweet-and-spicy-chicken-lettuce-wraps/