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Satay Chicken Lettuce Cups

Name: Satay Chicken Lettuce Cups
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 150 g Chicken breast; 1 heaped tsp (20 g) Peanut butter; 1 tbsp (15 g) Tamari; Half a lime Lime juice; Half, finely chopped Fresh red chilli; 1 clove, about 3 g Garlic; 100 g Little gem lettuce; 60 g Cucumber; 20 g Spring onion; 3 sprays Olive oil spray

Chicken strips in a peanut and tamari sauce, eaten out of little gem leaves. No bread and no gluten, 43 g of protein for 342 kcal.

Calories: 342kcal
Protein: 43g
Fat: 14g
Carbs: 8g

Per serving, makes 1. 20 minutes of work. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Peanuts
Soya

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Satay Chicken Lettuce Cups, plated and ready to serve. — The finished recipe. Satay Chicken Lettuce Cups

Ingredients 1 to 6 for satay chicken lettuce cups arranged separately on a dark worktop. — Ingredients 1 to 6. 150 g Chicken breast (Weighed raw. The same piece weighed after cooking has lost water, so the protein per gram is higher and the total would come out about a quarter over.). 1 heaped tsp (20 g) Peanut butter (The sauce base and most of the fat. Twenty grams looks like less than you expect. The kind that is peanuts and salt. Sweetened spreads carry more carbohydrate.). 1 tbsp (15 g) Tamari. Half a lime Lime juice. Half, finely chopped Fresh red chilli. 1 clove, about 3 g Garlic

Ingredients 7 to 10 for satay chicken lettuce cups arranged separately on a dark worktop. — Ingredients 7 to 10. 100 g Little gem lettuce (Two heads, leaves separated. The small inner leaves make the best cups.). 60 g Cucumber. 20 g Spring onion. 3 sprays Olive oil spray (Counted at a quarter of a gram per spray, which is what the nozzle on most bottles delivers. Four sprays is 9 kcal.)

Satay Chicken Lettuce Cups, preparation step 1: Stir the peanut butter, tamari, lime, crushed garlic and chilli together with two tablespoons of hot water until you have a sauce the thickness of double cream. — Step 1. Stir the peanut butter, tamari, lime, crushed garlic and chilli together with two tablespoons of hot water until you have a sauce the thickness of double cream.

Satay Chicken Lettuce Cups, preparation step 2: Slice the chicken into strips a finger wide. Fry them in a sprayed, very hot pan for two minutes a side until golden and no longer pink in the middle. — Step 2. Slice the chicken into strips a finger wide. Fry them in a sprayed, very hot pan for two minutes a side until golden and no longer pink in the middle.

Satay Chicken Lettuce Cups, preparation step 3: Pour the sauce into the pan, turn off the heat and toss for thirty seconds so it coats the chicken and thickens. — Step 3. Pour the sauce into the pan, turn off the heat and toss for thirty seconds so it coats the chicken and thickens.

The finished satay chicken lettuce cups. — Step 4. Spoon the chicken into the leaves with matchsticks of cucumber and sliced spring onion, and eat with your hands.

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Ingredients

Chicken breast150 g
Weighed raw. The same piece weighed after cooking has lost water, so the protein per gram is higher and the total would come out about a quarter over.
Peanut butter1 heaped tsp (20 g)
The sauce base and most of the fat. Twenty grams looks like less than you expect. The kind that is peanuts and salt. Sweetened spreads carry more carbohydrate.
Tamari1 tbsp (15 g)
Lime juiceHalf a lime
Fresh red chilliHalf, finely chopped
Garlic1 clove, about 3 g
Little gem lettuce100 g
Two heads, leaves separated. The small inner leaves make the best cups.
Cucumber60 g
Spring onion20 g
Olive oil spray3 sprays
Counted at a quarter of a gram per spray, which is what the nozzle on most bottles delivers. Four sprays is 9 kcal.

Method

Stir the peanut butter, tamari, lime, crushed garlic and chilli together with two tablespoons of hot water until you have a sauce the thickness of double cream.
Slice the chicken into strips a finger wide. Fry them in a sprayed, very hot pan for two minutes a side until golden and no longer pink in the middle.
Pour the sauce into the pan, turn off the heat and toss for thirty seconds so it coats the chicken and thickens.
Spoon the chicken into the leaves with matchsticks of cucumber and sliced spring onion, and eat with your hands.

Worth knowing

The lettuce is doing the job of the bread, so this lands at 342 kcal. The same filling rolled in a flour tortilla is a different meal.
Tamari rather than soy sauce keeps it gluten-free. They taste nearly the same; soy sauce is brewed with wheat.

Other lunch recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every lunch between 300 and 450 calories a serving.

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