Guacatillo is a bright creamy sauce that coats proteins incredibly well. These salad wraps are incredibly tasty and simple to make. Use this recipe as a base for a solid keto chicken salad, adding any extra toppings as desired! Let’s dive into it.
Guacatillo is a Mexican-based sauce prepared by blending avocado and tomatillos, yielding a highly delicious and full-bodied green sauce, making it creamy without the need of sour cream. So yes, this sauce is both dairy-free, and gluten-free (also paleo and Whole30 Approved!).
This sauce coats sliced or pulled chicken incredibly well and adds tons of moisture and flavor. Nothing more to it.
The recipe is made with diced chicken, but it can also be made with shredded chicken, by either using Trifecta’s A La Carte or by making your own or buying/using some leftover rotisserie chicken (always an excellent use).
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Though this recipe is a wrap mix recipe, feel free to use the chicken and sauce mix to create a chicken salad mixture. Use your favorite crunchy salad leaves of choice for the wrap or shell. The recipe only takes about 20 minutes to prep.
Let’s dive into it.
Prep time: 20 minutesIngredients:
Preheat your oven to 425F (215C).
Dice the raw chicken and combine into a medium bowl with salt and pepper, mix to evenly season the chicken. Spread chicken evenly on a foil-lined baking sheet sprayed with oil.
If you are using Trifecta A La Carte chicken, skip this step, and simply dice the chicken breast!
To avoid cross-contamination and potential food-borne illness, wash your cutting board, knife, hands, and any other surface where the raw chicken breast was handled.
Bake for 14 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through (165F internal temp). Remove from the oven and cool at room temperature for 5 min. then transfer to a fridge to finish cooling down.
Prepare the Guacatillo sauce as directed on the recipe. Feel free to make this recipe ahead of time and have it available for your meal prep rotation. The sauce will naturally oxidize over time and begin turning brown (due to the avocado); so be sure to use the sauce within 5 days of making it.
To prevent avocado based sauces from oxidizing, turning brown, add ascorbic, citric acid, extra lemon juice to curve the oxidization process.
In the oven, lightly toast the pistachios and slivered almonds for 5 minutes then remove and let cool at room temp.
Prepare your lettuce wraps by cutting off the bottom core portion of the lettuce. Separate the largest nicest looking leaves, for a total of 8 whole lettuce leaves and prepare to shock them.
Fill a large bowl with ice water (half ice + half water), and carefully 'shock' the lettuce leaves for ~5 minutes. Halve cherry tomatoes and keep them aside in a small container until needed.
"Shocking" is a culinary term that means to plunge greens in ice water to keep the color bright and the texture crip (crissssspppp - that's right).
Once all ingredients are cooled and ready, use a scale to measure 4 ounces of the diced chicken, 2 tablespoon of the Guacatillo sauce, 1 tablespoon of pistachios, 1 teaspoon of slivered almonds, a few halved cherry tomatoes, and a dash of Tabasco. Mix gently to fully incorporate the sauce into all ingredients.
Divide the chicken mix into two Romaine lettuce leaves. Sprinkle a small amount of paprika for color and garnish, plus 1 teaspoon of cotija cheese. Store in an airtight container.
The macros for this recipe are:
330 kcal; 21g Fat; 5g Net Carb (11g CHO - 6g DF); 28g Protein. A perfectly balanced meal.
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