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Larb Gai Lettuce Wraps Recipe {Low Carb, GF, Low Fat, High Protein & Low Calorie}

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This lettuce wraps recipe is a quick, easy and super healthy traditional Thai salad…in a lettuce cup! Perfect for entertaining.

Larb Gai Lettuce Wraps {Low Carb, GF, Low Fat, High Protein and Low Calorie} - Food Faith Fitness

Larb Gai: almost as fun to eat as it is to say.

And now you are wondering what on earth I am talking about. You’re used to this by now though.

So, what is Larb Gai you ask? Only the most amazing Thai salad your dreams could ever dream up, except it’s a real thing guys so you don’t even have to dream about it. I know that was so.much.sentence.

Anyway.

If you have ever gone out for Thai (and I seriously hope you have or I am cryin’ for your poor tastebuds, that you have hidden under a rock) you will probably have seen this on the menu.  I find it’s not very well known as most people bypass the whole “leafy green” part of Asian menus and head straight over to the rice-and-noodles and orange beef stir fry. Confession: I used to do this too…until I saw a word that was really fun to say and that made me want to stuff it into my face.  I am very easy to please clearly.

Larb Gai Lettuce Wraps {Low Carb, GF, Low Fat, High Protein and Low Calorie} - Food Faith Fitness

I just realized I was going to answer what on earth Larb Gai was about 4000 words ago and then started rambling about where to find it. You are also used to this by now. I hope.

Ok. Larb Gai is a Thai style salad that is made up of chopped, or ground, chicken mixed with diced red peppers, shallots, cucumbers, Thai basil (GAH, this stuff is ah-may-zing!), mint and some sort of leafy green.  It is topped with a sweet and spicy dressing made of fish sauce, garlic, brown sugar, lime juice and diced Thai chili peppers.

Side note: If you own a pressure washer, use that to wash your hands after you dice a Thai chili. I used the regular old kitchen sink and thought that would get the juices from the chili off my hands. I then rubbed my eyeballs.  I clearly thought wrong.  Chili peppers: 1, Tate’s eyeballs: Ouch.

Larb Gai Lettuce Wraps {Low Carb, GF, Low Fat, High Protein and Low Calorie} - Food Faith Fitness

If you read my little posty yesterday about how Mr.FFF and I spent our Christmas, you would have seen that we ate lots of cute little food on cute little plates. In our household, we call them appies but you may know them as their other name, appetizers.  Appies is just cuter and more fun to say.  Also, less letters = less work for my mouth to do.  Success.

These little lettuce wrap recipe was part of the “cute food, cute plates” thang for our Christmas Eve dinner.  I thought it would be 10,000 times more fun to eat a salad filling inside a little cup o’ lettuce instead of making it into one boring salad.  Food that you can eat with your fingers > Food that you have to eat like a grown up with a fork and be civilized.

I told you my feelings on this in the Slow Cooker Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps.

Larb Gai Lettuce Wraps {Low Carb, GF, Low Fat, High Protein and Low Calorie} - Food Faith Fitness

We actually almost ate all of these you guys…and I made enough for 4 people so that I would have leftovers to take pictures of.  Considering we had 4 other kinds of appies as well, I would say that we really liked them. A lot.

I would also say that we were really, really, really full….

Of Nutrition. BAM!

Larb Gai Lettuce Wraps {Low Carb, GF, Low Fat, High Protein and Low Calorie} - Food Faith Fitness

I’m done.

Larb Gai Lettuce Wraps {Low Carb, GF, Low Fat & Low Calorie} - Food Faith Fitness
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Larb Gai Lettuce Wraps

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 1 cups Large chicken breast shredded (about 1 3/4 )
  • 1 tsp Peanut oil
  • 1/4 Cup Shallots diced (about 2 large shallots)
  • 1 Tbsp Fresh garlic minced
  • 3/4 Cup Cucumber diced (about 1/2 a large cucumber)
  • 1/2 Cup Red bell pepper diced (about 1/2 a large pepper)
  • 1/4 Cup Green onions diced
  • 1/4 Cup Fresh Thai basil roughly chopped
  • 3 Tbsp Fresh mint diced
  • 2 Tbsp Fish sauce
  • For the dipping sauce:
  • 2 Tbsp Thai chili minced (1 chili)
  • 1 Tbsp Fresh garlic minced
  • 1/4 Cup Fresh lime juice
  • 2 Tbsp Fish sauce
  • 2 Tbsp Brown sugar
  • Chopped peanuts cashews or almonds for garnishing
  • Lettuce of choice I like cabbage as it's sturdier

Instructions

  2. Bring a medium pot of salted water to a boil and cook the chicken breast until it is no longer pink inside, 20-25 minutes.
  3. While the chicken cooks, dice up all the vegetables and fresh herbs. Combine everything, except the shallots and garlic, into a large bowl. Set aside.
  4. Heat the oil in a small pan over medium/high heat and cook the shallots and garlic until they are soft, about 2-3 minutes. Toss those guys into the bowl of vegetables and herbs.
  5. Once the chicken has cooked, shred it using 2 forks, and throw it into the vegetable bowl.
  6. Pour the 2 Tbsps of fish sauce over the chicken and vegetable mixture and toss until it is evenly coated. Set aside.
  7. Mince the Thai chili and garlic and put them in a medium bowl.
  8. Add in the remaining dipping sauce ingredients and stir until the brown sugar is totally dissolved.
  9. Fill each lettuce cup with chicken/vegetable mixture and top with chopped nuts and a drizzle of sauce (or you can dip the wrap into the sauce.)
  10. Devour!

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  2. Love love love Thai food. And totally guilty… I skip over the salad part of Thai menus every time! These look so good though!

    I’m with you on apps. I’ll take apps with hands over full courses with knives and forks any day!

    Pinned 🙂

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  3. Heeeeello, these look amazing! Oh my gosh. I want these NOW. Thai food is like the biggest thing ever in Seattle so I have a feeling I’ll be going soon and ordering Larb Gai. Although I have a hunch that yours are much healthier and fresh and delicious. Sooooo these may be happening soon. 🙂 Love ya girl!

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  5. These look divine, even prettier than the ones served at my local Thai restaurant! Haha… ‘tastebuds hidden under a rock’. You’re hilarious, I love it! I adore appetizers, tapas, hors d’oeurves… any type of shared food that I can eat with my hands. I make most meals at home along those lines, with an occasional whack of steak for my carnivorous husband 🙂 Thanks for this recipe.

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    • Haha wow! That is a huge compliment…thank you! I love shared, hand-eaten food too….forks and knives are so hard 😉
      Steak could be hand food? Just kidding. I feel ya on the carnivorous hubby! I hope you love these wraps! 🙂

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  9. I’d never heard about this larb gai salad, but you made it sound so so delicious that I’m now eager to give it a try! I love that it’s healthier as will. Lighter lucnhes are right up my alley at the moment!
    I hope you’re having such a great weekend! xx

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    • So with you on the lighter lunches girlfriend! Thanks so much 🙂 I hope you are having an equally fab weekend! 🙂 xoxo

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  10. This looks so delicious and good for health. I will make this for my family tomorrow, they will love it. Thank you so much for sharing this!

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  11. I haven’t visited Thailand before and also haven’t heard about Larb Gai. But your post makes me want to try it at least one time. It looks so delicious and healthy. Will make it for myself tomorrow. Thanks for sharing!

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