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This Chicken Lettuce Wraps with Creamy Honey-Lemon Dressing recipe comes from my new book – a spin-off of generic paleo lettuce wraps recipe.

These are not your average butter lettuce wraps. 

The delicious filling is plump-full with flavor, and I chose to use pineapples as a game changer for both their sweetness and naturally-occurring digestive enzymes.

By the way, if you’d rather use a whole pineapple and cut it yourself, go for it!

There is a tutorial on how to cut a whole pineapple HERE. 

And also, lemons. Yes, I use a lot of lemons in my recipes for various reasons and health benefits. 

I found this graphic from Recipe Lion that will be super helpful for you. 

Remember the lemon juice source from the Gluten-Free Holiday Baking Essentials guide? 

That’s why it was listed like that (as a bottle vs single lemon).

Paleo Lettuce Wraps Recipe

Here are all the ingredients you’ll need for this easy weeknight dinner.

These ingredients make for a flavorful meal, but if you want several ideas for how to change it up a bit and/or swap, you’ll find them at the bottom of this article.

Sauce ingredients / dressing:

• 6 large egg yolks
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1/2 cup full-fat coconut milk
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Lettuce wraps / chicken mixture:

• 6 tablespoons olive oil, divided
• 1 (12-ounce) bag broccoli florets, chopped (about 4 cups)
• 2 cups chopped, ground chicken or shredded cooked chicken
• 1 (20-ounce) can pineapple, drained (about 2 1/2 cups)
• 1 cup shredded carrot
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 4 large romaine lettuce leaves

Chicken Lettuce Wraps with Creamy Honey-Lemon Dressing

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These healthy chicken lettuce wraps are gluten-free, dairy-free, and can be made in under 30 minutes.

Swaps

For most, especially if you are just beginning your leaky gut healing journey, you won’t need to make any swaps to this recipe.

But for some, you might.

I don’t know you or your current circumstances, but here are various other things you could do with this recipe:

1. Do you want to make it Vegetarian? Cut the chicken out.
2. Don’t like chicken? Use ground turkey, ground pork or ground beef instead.
3. Love onions? Try adding in some green onions (by the way, scallions are low-FODMAP, too!)
4. Can’t do honey because it’s high-FODMAP? Swap with maple syrup.
5. If you don’t like olive oil, you can swap in Avocado Oil or Coconut Oil instead.
6. In fact, for more of the PF Changs flavor, consider using sesame oil in these healthy lettuce wraps.
7. Are you sensitive to broccoli due to SIBO? The broccoli FODMAP breakdown is in REASONABLE SIBO HERE to help with that.
8. Not even interested in lettuce for the wrap? You can seek out a paleo-friendly wrap that the whole family will love.
9. Add in other things like: green cabbage, red cabbage, water chestnuts, fresh ginger, bell peppers, baby bella mushrooms, and a sprinkle of sesame seeds. 
10. If you’re not trying to make the lettuce wraps low carb, add in white rice! Or if you do want them to remain low carb, try cauliflower rice.

My Original Recipe, Elevated

The best part of knowing the basics for how to make paleo lettuce wraps is that it makes it super easy to try different ways with your own lettuce wraps with whatever flavors you desire.

You can even use these as part of your weekly meal prep so that you’re never left wondering, “What’s for lunch or dinner?”

Simply prepare all the pieces, store in an airtight container, and when it’s time to eat, grab and go as desired.

If you want a full, 21-day meal plan to help reduce bloat and jump start weight loss, come join the 21-Day Quick Gut Detox.

If you liked this recipe for paleo chicken lettuce wraps, you might also enjoy:

1. On-the-Go Turkey Breakfast Muffins
2. Healing Blooms from Within
3. Pantry Staples

Xox,
SKH