Healthy Chicken Teriyaki With Lettuce Wrap

How To Cook Healthy Chicken Teriyaki With Lettuce Wrap

Healthy Chicken Teriyaki With Lettuce Wrap - One of the best appetizers that I had is Teriyaki Chicken Lettuce Wrap. It is flavorful and delicious, and easy to make. This is something that you should include in your meal plan especially this spring and summer

Healthy Chicken Teriyaki With Lettuce Wrap

This chicken lettuce wrap recipe makes use of our tried and tested chicken teriyaki. We are also making our own teriyaki sauce, but you can always get bottled teriyaki sauce from the supermarket if you want to save time.
Butter lettuce is my preferred lettuce variety in all my lettuce wraps because I love its crisp texture and taste. It is up to you to choose the type of lettuce that you will use.

Healthy Chicken Teriyaki With Lettuce Wrap Time And Duration
Prep time
15 mins
Cook time
35 mins
Total time
50 mins

Healthy Chicken Teriyaki With Lettuce Wrap Ingredients

1 serving chicken teriyaki  (How To Cook chicken teriyaki )
1 whole butter leaf lettuce or iceberg lettuce, cleaned and leaves separated
1/2 serving teriyaki sauce
1/2 cup carrots, julienne
1 teaspoon sesame seeds
1/4 cup chopped scallions
1/2 teaspoon minced ginger
1 tablespoon cooking oil

Healthy Chicken Teriyaki With Lettuce Wrap Cooking Steps

1. Prepare the teriyaki chicken using the recipe link above. Chop the teriyaki chicken breasts into cubes. Set aside.
2. Heat the cooking oil in a pan.
3. Add the ginger. Saute for 20 seconds.
4. Add the chopped chicken teriyaki, carrot, 1/2 teaspoon sesame seeds, and teriyaki sauce. Stir. Cook for 1 to 3 minutes. Remove from the pan and transfer to a plate.Let it cool.
5. Scoop the chicken mixture and place on a piece of lettuce. Arrange the lettuce in a serving plate. Top with remaining sesame seeds and chopped scallions.
6. Serve as an appetizer.

Healthy Benefits Of Lettuce 

• Lettuce leaves are one of the very low calorie green-vegetables. 100 g fresh greens provide just 15 calories.Nonetheless, they are the store house of many phyto-nutrients that possess health promoting and disease prevention properties.
• Vitamins in lettuce are plentiful. Its fresh leaves are an excellent source of several Vitamin A and beta carotenes. Just 100 g of fresh, raw-lettuce provides 247% of daily vitamin A, and 4443 µg of beta-carotene (Carotenes convert into vitamin A in the body; 2 µg of carotene is considered equivalent to 1 IU of vitamin A). These compounds have antioxidant properties. Vitamin A is required for maintaining healthy mucus membranes and skin, and is also essential for vision. Consumption of natural fruits and vegetables rich in flavonoids helps to protect the body from lung and oral cavity cancers.
• It is a rich source of vitamin K. Vitamin K has a potential role in the bone metabolism where it thought to increase bone mass by promoting osteotrophic activity inside the bone cells. It also has established role inAlzheimer's disease patients by limiting neuronal damage in the brain.
• Fresh leaves contain good amounts folates and vitamin C. Folates are part of co-factors in the enzyme metabolism required for DNA synthesis and therefore, play a vital role in prevention of the neural tube defects in the baby (fetus) during pregnancy.
• Vitamin C is a powerful natural antioxidant; regular consumption of foods rich in vitamin C helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents and scavenge harmful, pro-inflammatory free radicals.
• Zea-xanthin (1730 µg per 100 g), an important dietary carotenoid in lettuce, is selectively absorbed into the retinal macula lutea, where it thought to provide antioxidant and filter UV rays falling on the retina. Diet rich in xanthin and carotenes is thought to offer some protection against age-related macular disease (ARMD) in the elderly.
• It also contains good amounts of minerals like iron, calcium, magnesium, and potassium, which are very essential for body metabolism. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps controlling heart rate and blood pressure. Manganese is used by the body as a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. Copper is required in the production of red blood cells. Iron is essential for red blood cell formation.
• It is rich in B-complex group of vitamins like thiamin, vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine), riboflavins.

Regular inclusion of lettuce in salads is known to prevent osteoporosis, iron-deficiency anemia, and believed to protect from cardiovascular diseases, ARMD, Alzheimer's disease and cancers. Source: Lettuce

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