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Thai Chicken Salad Wraps

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by: Girl vs Dough
Updated Mar 21, 2017
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Chicken salad infused with Thai flavors all rolled up in a wrap.

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  • Back in my (not-so) glory days, I worked at a sandwich/coffee/smoothie/pizza/candy shop (yeah, we sold a lot of stuff). Nearly every day, I’d get up around 4 a.m. to get there by 5 a.m., brew gallons upon gallons of coffee – and drink a few myself – stock the bakery cases with fresh bagels and muffins the size of my fist and enjoy a long, leisurely morning with the regulars. Those were the days. And then, the lunch rush came. You could hear the herd rumbling in from a mile away. At around 11:50 a.m., a tornado of ravenous teachers, lawyers, stay-at-home moms and teenagers came rushing through the place, ordering hundreds of sandwiches, wraps, lattes, cookies, chocolate and candy (did I mention we sold a lot of stuff?) until they finally left an hour or two later, leaving behind smears of pizza sauce, bits of tortillas and cookie crumbs all over the tables and floor, whence I proceeded to hide in a cabinet under the counter and suck my thumb until the end of my shift. Ah, yes – those were the days. These Thai Chicken Salad Wraps remind me of those days. Minus getting up at the crack of dawn, brewing enough coffee I could swim in it and the impending Lunch Rush of Doom, of course. But we did have some pretty killer wraps at the shop (thus the tornado), and I do miss eating them every now and then. The tornado, not so much.
  • But ANYWAY – let’s talk more about these wraps. I get weak in the knees when it comes to Thai peanut sauce. Something about the combination of peanut butter, soy sauce, brown sugar and garlic just… ugh, it’s just beautiful. And then I go and toss it together with cubes of chicken, cabbage, carrots, scallions, cilantro and peanuts and…I die. It’s almost too good to eat. Almost. The salad tastes best after sitting in the fridge for a few hours so the flavors can meld together, but if you’re even remotely as impatient as me, you can eat it right away. I like rolling it up in wraps with some butter lettuce tucked inside, but it also tastes yummy in lettuce wraps, on sandwich bread or right out the bowl at 2:30 in the morning. Not that I would know anything about that, psh… I’m giving up getting up before the rooster crows, drinking coffee through an I.V. drip and quivering in fear at the sight of a mob of teachers – but the wraps? Those can stay.

Thai Chicken Salad Wraps

  • Prep Time 15 min
  • Total 30 min
  • Servings 4
  • Ingredients 14
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Ingredients

  • 3 chicken breasts, cut into quarters
  • 1 1/2 cups dry cole slaw mix (shredded cabbage and carrots)
  • 3 green onions, thinly sliced
  • 3 tablespoons chopped cilantro
  • 3 tablespoons chopped dry-roasted peanuts
  • 3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
  • 3 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 3 tablespoons lime juice
  • 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons light sesame oil
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons minced garlic
  • Pinch of red pepper flakes
  • 4 to 6 10-inch flour tortillas
  • Butter or bibb lettuce

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add chicken and cook, 10-15 minutes, until fully cooked through. Remove from heat. Remove chicken from water and allow to cool completely. Cut into 1/2-inch cubes and place in a large bowl.
  • Step 
    2
    Add cole slaw mix, green onions, cilantro and peanuts to large bowl and toss to combine.
  • Step 
    3
    In a separate small bowl, whisk together peanut butter, soy sauce, lime juice, brown sugar, sesame oil, garlic and red pepper flakes until smooth. Pour sauce over dry ingredients and toss to coat completely.
  • Step 
    4
    Place 4-5 lettuce leaves on bottom half of each tortilla. Top each with a few heaping tablespoonfuls of chicken salad mixture. Fold over sides of tortilla, then roll up from bottom to top. Repeat with remaining tortillas. Cut tortillas in half and serve.

Nutrition

580 Calories
27g Total Fat
38g Protein
45g Total Carbohydrate
14g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Serving
Calories
580
Calories from Fat
240
Total Fat
27g
42%
Saturated Fat
5g
25%
Trans Fat
1/2g
Cholesterol
75mg
26%
Sodium
1170mg
49%
Potassium
630mg
18%
Total Carbohydrate
45g
15%
Dietary Fiber
4g
16%
Sugars
14g
Protein
38g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
40%
40%
Vitamin C
15%
15%
Calcium
15%
15%
Iron
20%
20%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 1 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 3 Lean Meat; 1 1/2 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
3
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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