Ginger-Peanut Chicken-Salad Wraps

Kim, one of the moderators at the slowtravel message board suggested to me that I would enjoy these. They were a snap to prepare - the perfect summer dinner dish. I served them with some fresh vegetables and hummus.

You could substitute slices of breast meat from a prepackaged rotisserie chicken, which would make the preparation easier, but the dish will be a little higher in fat and sodium.


1 teaspoon olive oil
6 (4-ounce) skinned, boned chicken breast halves
1 cup chopped seeded peeled cucumber
3/4 cup chopped red bell pepper
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon minced peeled fresh ginger
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1 garlic clove, crushed
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
2 tablespoons water
3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
8 (8-inch) fat-free flour tortillas
4 cups chopped romaine lettuce

Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook 5 minutes on each side or until done. Remove the chicken from pan; cool. Shred the chicken into bite-size pieces. Place chicken, cucumber, and bell pepper in a large bowl; set aside.

Place sugar and the next 6 ingredients (sugar through garlic) in a blender, and process until smooth. Add peanut butter and water; process until smooth, scraping sides. Add peanut butter mixture to chicken mixture; stir well. Add cilantro, and toss well. Warm tortillas according to package directions. Spoon 1/2 cup chicken mixture onto each tortilla; top each serving with 1/2 cup lettuce, and roll up.

Yield: 8 servings (serving size: 1 wrap)

CALORIES 280 (19% from fat); FAT 5.9g (sat 1.1g,mono 2.7g,poly 1.6g); PROTEIN 25.8g; CHOLESTEROL 49mg; CALCIUM 29mg; SODIUM 572mg; FIBER 2.4g; IRON 2.5mg; CARBOHYDRATE 30.5g

Cooking Light, JUNE 2000

Comments

[Kim]

Jerry - glad you liked them. Question - how do you get the cooking light logo to appear; if it's okay - I want to copy :D.

[Jerry]

Kim - what I did was when I was on the Cooking Light recipe site I clicked on print recipe and selected full-page.

I highlighted the text and the graphics, copied it, and clicked on my blog post design page and pasted.

It pasted with the graphics and the text (this included the cute little Cooking Light logo).