Asian Lettuce Wraps (No Soy)

My New Year's Resolution for 2012 is to exercize and eat more veggies.  So far so good.  I made my own version of asian lettuce wraps and let me tell you, they are amazing so I want to share them.

Disclaimer:  I don't really measure ingredients, sorry.

Ingredients:

For Chicken:

4 large chicken breasts
lemon juice
ginger
salt
pepper
garlic
orange zest

Veggies (all are fresh produce unless otherwise specified):
1 large carrot, julienned
2 stalks celery, chopped finely
2 mushrooms, chopped finely
half a cucumber, chopped
half a red bell pepper, chopped
1 can water chestnuts, drained and chopped

lettuce leaves (I used iceberg, but most varieties of lettuce work fine)

Garnish:
cilantro leaves
sliced red radish
sunflower seeds

Sauce:
2 T. lemon juice
salt
white pepper
ginger
2 T. peanut butter
1T. brown sugar

Cook the chicken breasts in a large skillet with a glug of lemon juice, some salt, pepper, and ginger to taste, and the zest of half of a small orange.

Once the chicken is cooked through, remove it from the pan.  While the chicken is cooling cook the carrots, celery, cucumber, peppers, mushrooms and water chestnuts in your skillet.  In order to get the veggies really fine I chopped them with a very handy little chopper from a company that I sell cooking tools from.  If you don't have one and would like one, let me know.

While those veggies are cooking use that same chopper to chop the cooked chicken and then add it to back to the pan with the veggies.  Mix those together, put the lid on and turn it on low.

Combine the sauce ingredients in a small microwave safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds or until heated through.  Stir.

Your chicken filling for the wraps should look like the picture on the right.

To assemble lay out a clean piece of lettuce and put the chicken mixture in the middle.  Drizzle the peanut sauce on, sprinkle with sunflower seeds and add fresh cilantro and sliced radishes on top.  Now fold the lettuce around everything and eat. 

If you're following the paleo diet I think the only no-no would be the peanut sauce.  You could always sub with tahini sauce, paleo fish sauce or something like that instead.