Chicken Guacatillo Keto Recipe

This chicken guacatillo recipe is served with salad. Guacatillo is a creamy sauce fully enriched with proteins. These salad wraps are easy-to-make and very delicious as well. You can add extra topping as per your need and taste likeness.

Keto Guacatillo Chicken Salad Wrap Recipe by Trifecta Nutrition

What is Guacatillo?

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 for sour cream. Hence, 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 making your own or buying/using some leftover rotisserie chicken (always an excellent use).

How To Make a Keto Chicken Guacatillo Wrap?

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 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4

Ingredients:

• 1 Lb or 16 ounces chicken, cooked, diced.
• 8 tablespoons Guacatillo sauce
• 4 tablespoons pistachio, lightly roasted
• 4 teaspoons slivered almonds nuts, lightly roasted
• 8 Romaine lettuce leaves, shocked and rinsed
• 8 Cherry tomatoes, rinsed, halved
• 1 tablespoon avocado oil (or neutral oil)
• 1-2 dashes Tabasco
• 4 teaspoon cotija cheese, crumbled
• Salt and Pepper to taste
• Spray oil
• Garnish: Paprika powder

Kitchen Needs:

• Knife and Cutting board
• 3 Medium bowls
• Measuring spoons
• 2 Baking sheet, 1 large & 1 small with foil
• Oven

Step One: Dice and Cook For Chicken Guacatillo

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. 

To avoid cross-contamination and potential foodborne 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.

Step Two: Make Guacatillo Sauce and Prep Ingredients

Prepare the Guacatillo sauce as directed on the recipe. Hence, feel free to make this recipe ahead of time and have it available for your meal prep rotation. Although, 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. However, 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). 

Step Three: Put It all Together

Once all ingredients are cooled and ready, use a scale to measure 4 ounces of the diced chicken, 2 tablespoons 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.

Helpful Tips for Storing and Serving:

• If you are preparing multiple of these for the week, store the chicken mixed with the rest of the ingredients in one container, and the rinsed Romaine lettuce leaves in a separate container. Plate the night prior. But, this will help retain the freshness of the lettuce as the week goes by. 
• Also feel free to use the chicken mixture for any other kind of meal prep dishes. Have fun and get creative with this recipe!
• If you want to save even more time, simply make the Guacatillo Sauce and combine it with our A La Carte Chicken Breast!

Other recipes you might like to try: Keto Lasagna Eggplant, Keto Chicken Florentine, Keto Orange Chicken Recipe

The post Chicken Guacatillo Keto Recipe appeared first on Fitr 365.