Scallion & Ginger Chicken Lettuce Cups (healthy, low carb dinner or lunch)

These scallion & ginger chicken lettuce cups are such an easy and healthy recipe that is perfect for the summer weather. Chicken lettuce cups make for a delicious low carb dinner or lunch or even appetizer.  Only 5.4g net carbs per serving.

I might have mentioned that my family and I are working with a nutrtionist. It’s been a really good experience and one that I will write about in another post. In one of our meetings our nutritionist mentioned that one of her go to meals was a chicken sausage with scallions and ginger. That reminded me of those tasty lettuce cups you get at PF Changs. So I tried my hand at making them and came up with this low carb dinner of scallion & ginger chicken lettuce cups. They were so easy and so tasty I will definitely be making these again soon. They also made great lunches the next day.

 Ground turkey or chicken lettuce cups?

I don’t know about you but finding ground chicken is sometimes hard for me. I was all ready to use ground turkey instead when I was in a big grocery store and found it. My point is that ground turkey would be fine here too. I do like the chicken though so if you can find it, try it first. Actually by two packages and try these blue cheese filled buffalo chicken meatballs that are really tasty too. 

chicken lettuce cups recipe

This recipe will only take about 15 minutes to make. Seriously it is so easy and yet very tasty. You start by add a bit of olive oil to a large skillet. Add in the garlic and ginger and saute for  a minute until they become fragrant. Add in the ground chicken, jicama, the whites of scallions, coconut aminos, salt and pepper. Saute until the chicken is cooked through. Add the sesame oil at the end along with the greens of the onions and saute for 1 more minute and your done. I found this beautiful butter lettuce at Costco and it worked great for these lettuce cups.  

A note about the coconut aminos.

I used these because I didn’t want to use soy products. If you don’t have any you can use soy sauce instead. However I find coconut aminos to be a bit sweeter so I would try using only 3 tablespoons of soy sauce and a 1/2 teaspoon of sweetener first and then add more if it needs it. Coconut aminos are a pretty cool replacement for soy sauce so if you see them anywhere, give them a try. The nutritional information for 1 serving is:

111 cals / 0.6g fat / 6.3g carb / 0.9g fiber / 19.9g protein = 5.4g net carbs

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Scallion & Ginger Chicken Lettuce Cups

These scallion & ginger chicken lettuce cups are such an easy and healthy recipe that is perfect for the summer weather. Chicken lettuce cups make for a delicious low carb dinner or lunch or even appetizer.  Only 5.4g net carbs per serving.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Chinese

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 111 kcal

Author Denise

Ingredients

• 1 lb chicken, ground
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 4 scallions, chopped (separate white parts from the greens)
• 1 tablespoon ginger, grated
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup coconut aminos
• 1/2 cup jicama, chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 4 lettuce leaves, large butter lettuce leaves

Instructions

1. In a large skillet, heat up the olive oil. Add in the garlic and ginger and saute for a minute until fragrant.

2. Add in the whites of the scallions, along with the chicken, jicama, salt and pepper. As the chicken starts losing it's pink color, add in the coconut aminos and mix well.

3. When the chicken is cooked, add in the greens of the onions and the sesame oil. Mix well and cook for 1 minute more.

4. Take off the stove and put the filling into large butter lettuce leaves. Use the coconut aminos as a condiment if you want or try a squeeze of lime or fresh cilantro leaves though these are optional.