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Do you see a similarity here in the recipes I post? For some reason anything that I can make at home that is similar to the deliciousness of a Thai restaurant is A-okay by me. This recipe is super easy and quick to make and I’m positive it’ll be something you love too.

 

Here is what you need: 

• 1 TBL of sesame oil
• 1 lb of ground chicken
• Black pepper
• 4 cloves of garlic, minced
• Sprinkle of ginger powder ( I did a few shakes of it)
• 6 oz of sliced bell pepper (you can add more if  you want, this is just all I had!)
• 1/2 cup of low sodium soy sauce
• 2 TBL of fish sauce
• 2 TBL of honey
• 2-3 TBL of chili paste
• 1 cup of fresh basil, roughly torn

1. Heat your sesame oil in a large pan and add your chicken. Season with black pepper, breaking the chicken up as it cooks.
2. Once chicken is completely cooked, add garlic, ginger, peppers. Cook for another 2-3 minutes stirring occasionally.
3. Add your soy sauce, fish sauce, chili paste and honey. Bring the sauce to a boil over medium-high heat and cook until the sauce coats the chicken, about 5-8 minutes.
4. Remove from heat and stir in the basil.
5. Serve over rice.

Alternatives you can try: Adding raw cashews when you add the peppers but this will impact the fat content and you’ll need to add those to the macros below. Another easy way to bulk this up even more is to add mushrooms and zucchini which I’m going to try next time!

I like to figure out the macros per oz so I can dish up different serving sizes depending on hunger. These macros do NOT include the rice, I logged that separately.

1 oz: 

4.8 protein

3.2 carbs

1.7 fat

For example, last night I weighed out 6 oz for dinner which totaled: 

29 protein

19.5 carbs

10 fat

(rice not included)

 

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did and it becomes an easy go to dinner recipe in your house.

Love,

Coach Mal

One of my goals this year is to make more recipes. I’m a boring eater…it makes it easier to buy groceries and easier to track my macros. I have the staple foods I eat for most meals and usually the only things that change are the vegetables or fruits I eat with them. I’m a creature of habit you could say. But, I’m really going to try to start branching out a bit so I can share some healthy and tasty recipes with you!

Tonight on the menu, I tried making Thai chicken lettuce wraps for the first time and let me tell you…they did not disappoint. Super easy ingredients, quick to make and the flavor was amazing! Plus, they’re macro friendly which is what we’re aiming for here.

Here’s what you’ll need:

For the sauce: 

2 TBL Thai sweet chili sauce

1 tsp honey

1/4 cup of low sodium soy sauce or coconut aminos

The juice of 1 lime.

For the mixture itself you’ll need:

1 TBL sesame oil

35g of diced onion

2 tsp of garlic

3 tsp ginger paste

1 lb of ground chicken

1/4 cup of scallions chopped

1/4 cup cilantro chopped

50g of raw carrots sliced into thin strips

1/4 cup of peanuts (crushed)

1 head of butter lettuce (leaves removed and rinsed)

 

Start with 1 TBL of sesame oil in your pan. Once the oil it hot, add your diced onion and cook until onions start to brown and turn translucent. Add in your garlic and ginger and toss that around in your pan for about 2 minutes.

Then, add in your ground chicken. Use a spatula to break it up while its cooking and cook until there is no longer any pink.

Once the chicken is cooked, sprinkle your ground up peanuts on top and then add your sauce mixture. Stir that around, reduce heat to simmer and let let it cook for another 2 minutes. Then add in your carrots,  scallions and cilantro. Stir mixture and let simmer for another minute or so.

Once thats done, you can assemble your lettuce wraps! I just used a small spoon to layer the chicken mixture down the middle of the lettuce leaf and ate them like tacos. YUM. You can also cook some rice and eat this mixture over a bed of rice if you want to increase your carb intake a bit. You could also add some strips of bell peppers to bulk them up and give them some extra crunch!

If you divide this recipe into 4 servings, the macros per serving are:

26.2g of protein

12.3g of fat

12.8g of carbs

**I did not weigh out my cilantro or lettuce for these macros (they’re so minimal I didn’t bother!).

Let me know in the comments below if you make this! Enjoy :)

 

XO,

Coach Mallory