I often settle for less than delicious (think boring) when it comes to lunch. Since I leave for work around 1:30pm I don’t like to spend too much time in the kitchen right before I leave.
However, I have found my new favorite lunch dish and I can thank Saucy Mama for that. They asked me to participate in their “Skinny Mama – Cooking with Mustard” contest and I was super happy to play along. I love their products and I’m a sucker for a fun contest.
I decided to play with their chipotle mustard since I have recently fallen in love with chipotle. It’s a love affair I don’t see going away anytime soon.
Part of the contest rules was that the dish had to be healthy. So I knew I wanted to stay away from anything with too much fat or calories. What I ended up with was flavorful, fresh and super simple to throw together.
Enjoy!!!
Chipotle Chicken Lettuce Cups:
Serving size 4
Calories per serving chicken cups – 211*
Calories per serving avocado sour cream – 99*
1 tablespoon coconut oil
1/2 red bell pepper – diced
1/2 – 1 chipotle pepper in adobo – finely diced
1 pound ground chicken
1/2 cup frozen yellow corn
2 tablespoons Saucy Mama chipotle mustard
1 lime – juiced
1/4 cup cilantro – chopped
Kosher salt – to taste
Hydroponic bibb lettuce leaves
Melt and heat coconut oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add red bell pepper and cook for 3 minutes until it starts to soften. Add diced chipotle pepper and sauté for 1 minute.
Add in ground chicken and cook until no longer pink. Add in corn, chipotle mustard, lime juice and cilantro. Let ingredients heat through and add kosher salt to taste.
Serve warm chicken mixture in bibb lettuce cups. Top with avocado sour cream.
Avocado Sour Cream:
1 whole ripe medium avocado
1/4 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon sriracha
1/2 lime – juiced
Kosher salt – to taste
Add avocado, sour cream, sriracha, lime juice and kosher salt to food processor. Blend until smooth.
* These calorie counts are estimates as I am not a professional
Source: Nutmeg Nanny
Looks delicious! I’m an even bigger procrastinator than you are! I’m finishing my post up too.
PS: I used the chipotle mustard too. We are two peas in a pod, my love!
These are great!!! I love lettuce wraps, and chipotle….so these are perfect!!
Between Chick fil A and Chipotle…I might have to leave this area solely because of fast food. Why oh why don’t we have any around here?! Drives me nuts! Although, these look like a delicious recreation
Seriously-yum!! And i still want a tub of the avocado sour cream
These look so great, I’m always looking out for healthy lunch alternatives and this looks like it has more than enough protein to keep me going!
Yum! THis looks tasty!
I just bought ground chicken on sale last week and popped it in the freezer. Can’t wait to try these next week, they look and sound delicious!
These look so good, awesome flavors!! And I’m dying over the avocado sour cream!
That is what I call a yummy lunch! Love chipotle and with the avocado sour cream, I know this would be something I would really enjoy:)
Delicious lettuce cups, the flavors with chipotle are terrific!
Oh my! The only thing I can’t have (per my stupid allergy list) is the sour cream… and I can buy ‘fake’ sour cream, so it’s all good! This looks AMAZING. Thanks for posting. YUM!
Simple and easy to make recipe the Chipotle Chicken Lettuce Cups.
I always kind of skimp on lunch too since I like to focus all my energy on dinner. I just can’t be superwoman and make a huge elaborate lunch meal and a dinner meal in the same day.
On another note, these lettuce cups look so great. I tend to make some sort of Asian-inspired version of lettuce wraps but I’m definitely going to try these! It’s different from what I’m used to, and I LOVE the flavor of chipotle