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These easy Thai-Inspired Chicken Lettuce Wraps are bursting with bold flavor and fresh ingredients. They can be enjoyed as a main dish or served as an appetizer. Healthy food has never tasted so amazing!
Looking for more 30-minute meals? Try this Kung Pao Shrimp, Spaghetti Pie, or Thai Quinoa Salad!
Why I love this recipe:
- Bold Flavors – I love Thai-inspired recipes because they include fresh ingredients and bold flavors!
- Healthy – Packed with fresh vegetables, protein, and a homemade sweet sauce that's lower in sodium than store-bought. These Thai Lettuce Wraps will leave you satisfied and energized.
- 30-Minute Meal – I love recipes that are still made from scratch that I can have on the table quick! Try this Spring Roll Bowl or Lemon Chicken Pasta!
How to make Thai-Inspired Chicken Lettuce Wraps:
Cook Chicken: Heat oil in a large skillet over medium. Add chicken, garlic, onions, salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until chicken is cooked through.
Add Veggies: Add the carrots, cabbage, and green onions, cooking an additional 4-5 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
Make Sauce: In a small bowl combine the sweet chili sauce, ginger, chunky peanut butter, and soy sauce, and crushed red pepper. Stir until smooth.
Combine: Add to pan along with chopped cilantro. Stir until blended in and heated through.
Serve: Spoon mixture into lettuce leaves and enjoy these Thai ground chicken lettuce wraps!
What is the best lettuce for lettuce wraps?
You can use any type of green leafy lettuce for lettuce wraps, but popular types of lettuce include Boston bib lettuce and romaine hearts. The great thing about lettuce wraps is that they are easily modifiable when it comes to the filling and the wrapping. Cabbage leaves would also be a yummy substitute.
Make Ahead Instructions:
All of the veggies can be chopped ahead, and the sauce can be made 2-3 days in advance. This is a great recipe for meal prep, as leftovers will keep in the fridge for several days and taste great reheated.
Recipe Variations:
- Vegetables: This recipe is easily adaptable to use what you have in your fridge. Add other chopped veggies, like celery, bok choy, bean sprouts, shredded Brussels sprouts, zucchini, or summer squash. Sauté the veggies until tender when you add them to the skillet. If you add a lot of extra veggies to this recipe, you may want to make a little more sauce.
- Meat: Substitute the chicken for ground turkey or pork.
- Vegetarian: Substitute the meat for tofu, or leave it out completely, adding extra veggies instead.
More Lettuce Wrap Recipes:
- Avocado Chicken Salad Lettuce Wraps
- Cashew Chicken Lettuce Wraps
- Asian Turkey Lettuce Wraps
- Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad Lettuce Wraps
- Spicy Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil, (vegetable or canola oil)
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 4 cloves garlic, , minced
- 1/2 sweet onion, , chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup carrot, , shredded
- 1/2 cup finely shredded cabbage
- 3 green onions, chopped
For the sauce
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, , chopped
- 1/3 cup sweet chili sauce, (found in the Asian section of the grocery store)
- 1 Tablespoon chunky peanut butter, , or smooth
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
- 2 teaspoons low-sodium soy sauce
- crushed red pepper flakes, , to taste
- Boston Bib lettuce, , or romaine lettuce leaves
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium. Add chicken, garlic, onions, salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until chicken is cooked through.
- Add the carrots, cabbage, and green onions, cooking an additional 4-5 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
- In a small bowl, combine the sweet chili sauce, ginger, chunky peanut butter, and soy sauce, and crushed red pepper. Stir until smooth. Add to pan along with chopped cilantro. Stir to coat.
- Spoon mixture into lettuce leaves and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I originally shared this recipe in January 2014. Updated January 2018 and May 2023.
5 year old loved this, he pretended he was a gorilla while eating.
Hi. Can you serve cold as an appetizer?
Sure, if you don’t mind cold chicken (or you could just rewarm it for a minute before serving). Enjoy!
I have used a couple of recipes from this blog. Fantastic! This is a winner!!
I’m happy to hear it! Thanks Chuck.
This has been a regular on my meal plan for a long time. Probably for over a year. My young kids love it! (I just leave some aside with hardly any sauce) And I always use two packages of ground turkey. I just thought it was finally time to say thanks!
Thanks so much–I’m really happy your family likes them so much!
Looking forward to trying this! Thank you!
I tried this recipe for the first time, and the whole family loved it! We will definitely have it again!
We’ve made these many times and they’re amazing every time! Some times we change it up and have it over rice instead of in a lettuce leaf because I can find those frustrating to stuff. BUT don’t skip the lettuce! The crunch and fresh flavour really adds to the dish. We just rip it up and put it on top 🙂
We used 3/4 lb chicken and ate the whole thing between the two of us. Thanks
How many wraps do you get if there’s 4 servings? 4, 8?
It depends on how big your head of lettuce/lettuce leaves are, but around 4 per person.
Seeing how there are already so many comments about this dish just shows how yummy this recipe is!! My family, including my 3 yr old daughter, LOVES LOVES this meal.
I tend to triple it so we can have leftovers for a few days and i also love to switch out the cabbage for zuchini. I could not say enough about how good this receipe is. SO YUMMY!!!