High-Protein Green Goddess Chicken Salad Wraps

Components in these inexperienced goddess hen salad wraps
Make these wraps your personal
Can I make the vegetarian?
Straightforward methods to cook dinner hen for these wraps
Strive do-it-yourself pickled jalapeños
Extra scrumptious sauce choices
Not into wraps?
Extra filling lunches you’ll love
Protein-Packed Inexperienced Goddess Hen Salad Wraps

Nothing says spring fairly like an attractive, fully-loaded wrap stuffed with tons of recent herbs and veggies. Oh, and over 20g of protein from hen combined right into a pickled jalapeño tahini yogurt sauce? Sure, please!

These simple, high-protein inexperienced goddess hen salad wraps are what lunch-on-the-patio desires are manufactured from. Perhaps it’s not fairly patio climate the place you might be, however I can assure these flavorful wraps will transport you straight into these heat, breezy days of the brand new season.

They take simply quarter-hour to make and there are such a lot of nice methods to make them your personal with completely different fillings, sauces, and even methods to serve the hen salad. Verify all of them out beneath, and luxuriate in an unbelievable lunch any day of the week!

Components in these inexperienced goddess hen salad wraps

These wraps are such a simple, enjoyable strategy to pack within the veggies and protein throughout the week. I’ve included tons of how to customise these wraps beneath, however right here’s how I like to make them:

For the sauce: you’ll want plain greek yogurt, tahini, pickled jalapeños and their brine, garlic, an enormous handful of recent herbs, salt, and pepper.
Hen: acquired leftover cooked hen? That is the BEST manner to make use of it! Be at liberty to cut or shred it (utilizing these methods) so as to add to the wraps.
Tortillas: I like to recommend utilizing burrito-sized tortillas in an effort to match all the pieces into these wraps. I like the spinach model!
Filling: I like including sliced avocado, spinach or arugula, Persian cucumbers, roasted purple pepper strips, purple onion, and further pickled jalapeños. SO GOOD.

Make these wraps your personal

You actually can’t go improper in terms of filling up these inexperienced goddess hen wraps. Listed here are extra methods to customise them:

Use any herbs: I like so as to add a mixture of parsley, cilantro, dill and chives, however you should utilize any mixture you’d like! Basil would even be scrumptious within the sauce.
Select your tortilla: be at liberty to make use of gluten-free or complete wheat tortillas in case you’d like. See beneath for much more methods to serve the salad!
For the veggies: you’ll be able to actually get inventive with the greens in right here. Use romaine lettuce as a substitute of spinach in case you like extra crunch, swap the roasted purple peppers for uncooked purple peppers or tomato slices, and go for pickled purple onion in case you like a candy, briny taste.
Go dairy-free: merely use your favourite plain dairy-free greek yogurt within the sauce, or select from certainly one of my different sauces beneath!

Can I make the vegetarian?

Completely! I counsel subbing in 2 (15 ounce) cans of chickpeas which were rinsed, drained and smashed. Chickpea salads are simply as scrumptious!

Straightforward methods to cook dinner hen for these wraps

Don’t have any leftover hen out there? No downside! I’ve 4 tremendous simple, quick ways to cook chicken you could instantly chop or shred to make the inexperienced goddess hen salad.

Strive do-it-yourself pickled jalapeños

Jars of pickled jalapeños are fairly simple to search out in retailer nowadays, however you can too make them proper at house! Get my recipe for pickled jalapeños and prepare so as to add them to actually all the pieces.

You have got the choice to make use of gentle OR spicy pickled jalapeños in each the sauce and/or within the wraps themselves.

Extra scrumptious sauce choices

The pickled jalapeño tahini yogurt sauce is actually a scrumptious taste explosion, however I’ve tons of different inexperienced sauces that might be scrumptious within the inexperienced goddess hen salad:

Not into wraps?

There are SO many nice methods to eat the inexperienced goddess hen salad:

Pile the salad onto flippantly toasted sourdough bread (or gluten-free bread) and end together with your fav toppings
Serve all the pieces in lettuce cups for a low-carb choices
Scoop it up together with your favourite crackers or chips

Extra filling lunches you’ll love

Get all of my lunch recipes here!

I hope you’re keen on these protein-packed inexperienced goddess hen salad wraps! Should you make them make sure to go away a remark and a ranking so I understand how you want them. Take pleasure in, xo!

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Protein-Packed Inexperienced Goddess Hen Salad Wraps

Prep Time 15 minutes

Whole Time 15 minutes

Serves4 servings

These high-protein inexperienced goddess hen salad wraps are full of veggies and a flavorful, creamy, pickled jalapeño tahini yogurt sauce. Customise them together with your favourite mix-ins for the right, fast & simple weekday lunch!

Components

For the pickled jalapeño herby tahini yogurt sauce:
½ heaping cup plain greek yogurt (I like 2%)
2 tablespoons tahini
⅓ cup pickled jalapeños (I just like the spicy, however gentle is nice, too!)
1 tablespoon pickled jalapeño brine
1 garlic clove, roughly chopped
1 heaping cup tender herbs akin to any of the next: parsley, dill, cilantro, basil, chives
½ teaspoon kosher salt
Freshly floor black pepper
For the hen:
Roughly 1 pound of cooked leftover hen, chopped or shredded*
Freshly floor salt and pepper, to style
For meeting:
4 massive burrito-size spinach tortillas (or complete wheat is nice, or flippantly toasted sourdough bread!)
3 cups spinach and/or arugula (or use romaine in case you like some extra crunch!)
1 massive avocado, sliced
1 to 2 persian cucumbers, reduce into matchsticks
1 cup roasted purple peppers strips, drained (or sub tomato slices)
Thinly sliced purple onion
Pickled jalapeño slices

Directions

In a excessive powered blender or meals processor, add the yogurt, tahini, pickled jalapenos, the brine, garlic, herbs (my fav are a mixture of parsley, cilantro, dill and chives), salt and pepper. Mix on excessive till easy and properly mixed. Style and modify as vital.
In a big bowl, add the chopped or shredded hen and all the sauce. Combine with a spoon till properly mixed and the hen is properly coated. Season with salt and pepper, to style.
Now it’s time to make your wraps: Add 1 heaping cup spinach/arugula (or romaine) combine to 1 wrap, then prime with 1/4th of the hen salad combination (about ⅔ cup). Subsequent add avocado slices, cucumber sticks, purple bell pepper, purple onion, and a few jalapeno slices.
Rigorously tuck within the sides of every wrap as your roll till elements are secured inside. You may safe all the pieces along with a toothpick earlier than chopping it in half, if vital. Makes 4 wraps.

Recipe Notes

*To make vegetarian: I counsel subbing in 2 (15 ounce) cans of chickpeas which were rinsed, drained and smashed. Chickpea salads are simply as scrumptious! To make gluten free: Serve in lettuce cups or in your favourite gluten free bread.