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Ground chicken or turkey can be used to create these delicious Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps with sliced red cabbage and crumbled blue cheese. Fans of Buffalo Chicken will enjoy these lettuce wraps as a spicy low-carb meal!
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Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps are a tasty dinner option that can be made with ground chicken or ground turkey. Any Buffalo Chicken enthusiast will appreciate this lettuce wrap recipe. Did you know that spicy Frank’s Red Hot sauce contains zero carbs?
This recipe includes a generous amount of the flavorful hot sauce, with thinly sliced cabbage, iceberg lettuce, and crumbled blue cheese helping to balance out the heat. You can adjust the amount of hot sauce to suit your preference. We thoroughly enjoyed this recipe during testing; we hope you do too!
What ingredients do you need?
(This is simply a list of ingredients; please refer to the complete printable recipe below.)
What other meats can you use for the Buffalo-Spiced Lettuce Wraps?
You can certainly use ground turkey instead of ground chicken to make these lettuce wraps. For a richer option, you can also use ground beef.
Which lettuce is suitable for Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps?
While I’m not a big fan of Iceberg lettuce, I found that it provided a nice crunch for this recipe. You can opt for a different type of lettuce, such as Romaine or Green Leaf Lettuce, if you prefer.
How low in carbs are the Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps?
These spicy lettuce wraps contain only 8 net carbs per serving!
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How to Prepare Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps:
(This is a brief summary of the recipe steps; please refer to the complete printable recipe below.)
- Heat olive oil and cook the ground chicken or turkey until browned.
- While the meat is cooking, mix the Frank’s Red Hot Sauce, olive oil, Worcestershire Sauce, sweetener, and Green Tabasco Sauce.
- Thinly slice the green onions.
- Once the meat is browned, add the sauce mixture and simmer until absorbed.
- Turn off the heat and stir in the chopped green onions.
- Thinly slice about 1/2 head of red cabbage while the meat is cooking.
- Create lettuce cups from Iceberg lettuce, fill with cabbage, add the Buffalo Chicken, and top with blue cheese. Additional Blue Cheese Dressing can be added at the table if desired. Enjoy!
Creating a Low-Carb Meal:
You can enjoy the lettuce wraps on their own for a delicious low-carb meal. Alternatively, you can pair them with a simple side dish such as Cucumbers Caesar, Kale and Romaine Caesar Salad, Cucumber Salad with Balsamic Dressing, Lemon Parmesan Kale Salad, or Laurel’s Jicama Salad.
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Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 lb. ground chicken or turkey
- 2 tsp. olive oil
- 3/4 cup thickly sliced green onion
- 1/2 small head red cabbage, thinly sliced
- 1 head iceberg lettuce (see notes)
- 1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese, more or less to taste
- Blue Cheese Dressing for serving (optional)
Sauce Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup Frank’s Red Hot Sauce (see notes)
- 1 1/2 T olive oil
- 1 1/2 T Worcestershire sauce (see notes)
- 1 T Monkfruit Sweetener
- 1 tsp. Green Tabasco Sauce (see notes)
Instructions
- Heat the 2 tsp. olive oil in a non-stock frying pan, add the ground chicken or turkey, and cook over medium high heat until nicely browned, breaking apart with a turner as it cooks. (Most turkey and some chicken will release some water; just cook until it evaporates.)
- While chicken or turkey cooks mix together the Frank’s Red Hot Sauce (affiliate link), olive oil, Worcestershire Sauce or Gluten-Free Worcestershire Sauce (affiliate link), Monkfruit Sweetener (affiliate link) or sweetener of your choice, and Green Tabasco Sauce (affiliate link).
- When the chicken or turkey is nicely browned add the sauce mixture, stir to combine, turn heat to low, and cook until all the sauce is absorbed into the meat. (You should be able to see the bottom of the pan when you stir.)
- Slice the green onions, thinly slice the purple cabbage (using a mandoline slicer if you have one), and crumble the blue cheese. (affiliate link)
- Wash the lettuce if needed and separate into large cups.
- Fill each lettuce cup with a generous amount of sliced cabbage and some buffalo chicken and top with crumbled blue cheese.
- The buffalo chicken mixture and the sliced cabbage, lettuce, and blue cheese will keep in the fridge for a day or two, but don’t assemble the lettuce wraps until right before you’re going to eat them.
- Some testers liked this with additional blue cheese dressing.
- Enjoy!
Notes
You might need to use two heads iceberg lettuce to get enough large lettuce pieces; just save the smaller pieces for another use.
I love Frank’s Red Hot Sauce (affiliate link) because it has zero carbs, check the nutritional information if you use another brand of Buffalo Sauce.
Be sure to use Gluten-Free Worcestershire Sauce (affiliate link) if needed.
I would use Monkfruit Sweetener (affiliate link) for this recipe, but use any sweetener of your choice.
The Green Tabasco Sauce (affiliate link) is probably optional, but I like the extra jalapeno flavor it gives.
This recipe created by Kalyn.
Nutrition Information
Yield
4
Serving Size
1
Amount Per Serving
Calories 449Total Fat 31gSaturated Fat 8gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 19gCholesterol 129mgSodium 851mgCarbohydrates 12gFiber 4gSugar 7gProtein 34g
Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
This recipe for Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps is suitable for low-carb or Keto eating plans with an approved sweetener, as well as for any phase of the original South Beach Diet. For Keto, you may prefer to substitute ground chicken or turkey with higher-fat ground beef.
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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
The recipe for lettuce wraps with spicy Buffalo chicken or turkey was first published in 2015. Additional information was added to the recipe in 2024.
