Chicken Salad Lettuce Wraps
Chicken salad with blue cheese, dried cranberries, and walnuts is a quick and easy lunch idea or light dinner. It’s a great way to use up leftover cooked chicken and keeps well in the refrigerator for easy meals during the week.
How to Make Them
I love chicken salad during the summer. It’s a great way to use leftover grilled chicken, or I’ll pick up some rotisserie chicken at the store to make it even easier. The combination of blue cheese, cranberries, and walnuts is so delicious. You can use the chicken salad to make sandwiches, but I like it wrapped in lettuce leaves – it makes for a light lunch or dinner when the weather’s warm. Give them a try, and check out my other lettuce wrap recipes, too!
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PrintChicken Salad Lettuce Wraps
If you have cooked chicken on hand, these lettuce wraps are a great way to use it. Add in a few more ingredients, mix them up, and spoon the chicken salad into lettuce leaves for an easy lunch or dinner.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Wraps
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 3 cups seasoned cooked chicken, cubed or shredded (see note)
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup blue cheese crumbles
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/4 chopped dried cranberries
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
- Lettuce leaves (see note)
Instructions
- Combine all of the ingredients, except the lettuce, in a medium-sized bowl and stir until well combined.
- Spoon the chicken salad into the lettuce leaves for serving.
Notes
Rotisserie chicken works great, but leftover grilled or roasted chicken is great, too. This recipe also works great with roasted turkey.
I like to use butter lettuce for wraps. It’s tender and easy to wrap, but I usually double up the leaves for each wrap. Try romaine or iceberg lettuce leaves if you prefer sturdier/crisper lettuce.
You can make the chicken salad ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator. It will keep for several days. Store the lettuce leaves separately so they don’t wilt.
Nutrition
- Calories: 471
- Sugar: 7.6g
- Sodium: 428.2mg
- Fat: 34.9g
- Saturated Fat: 7.2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 26g
- Trans Fat: 0.1g
- Carbohydrates: 9.7g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 29.5g
- Cholesterol: 96.6mg
The nutrition is an estimate only. It was calculated using Nutrifox, an online nutrition calculator.
When I make these for lunch, I love them with potato chips on the side. For dinner, they pair great with my 10-minute easy tomato soup! I hope you give this recipe a try soon – enjoy!
Happy lettuce-wrapping,
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