These 11 recipes for easy lettuce wraps are perfect whenever you need a light and fresh meal. Each wrap is healthy, low carb and packed with flavor.
The Best Easy Lettuce Wrap Recipes
You won’t miss the bread with these easy lettuce wraps! A great way to make a sandwich, burger or taco fresher, lighter and healthier, yet still flavorful. They have everything you love about sandwiches or tortilla wraps but without the heavy ingredients, gluten or carbs. Fill them with your favorite chicken salad, roast beef, egg salad, cold cuts, ground beef taco meat, or use them in place of buns for burgers.
To get you started, I’ve rounded up 11 of my favorite salad wrap recipes. They’re all light, quick and easy to make and best of all, they taste amazing!
What is a lettuce wrap?
Lettuce wraps are exactly what they sound like: wraps that use lettuce instead of bread or tortillas. As simple as that! Sometimes the lettuce is rolled up like a wrap, while other times it’s more like a taco or open sandwich. You can turn any sandwich, burger or wrap into a lettuce wrap by simply replacing the bread or tortilla with a large piece of lettuce. Simply place your filling in the center of a lettuce leaf and roll up. It is really that easy!
What’s the best lettuce for lettuce wraps?
Look for leaves large enough to hold the meat, cheese, veggies, and gravy in your tasty wrap. Here are some of my favorite types of lettuce for making wraps:
- romaine Romaine is nice and thick with large leaves. So it’s perfect for holding fillings! It’s also quite a flavorful salad that adds a nice fresh flavor to your wrap.
- Iceberg. Iceberg lettuce doesn’t have much flavor, but I just love the texture. It has that signature crunch that I can’t get enough of.
- butter lettuce leaves. Butter lettuce has a natural bowl shape, allowing it to hold many ingredients. Sometimes the leaves are big enough to roll up, but butter lettuce usually works best for a taco-style wrap.
- Endive. Endive leaves are not as large as the other lettuces on this list. But they have a great canoe shape that’s perfect for storing ingredients!
11 quick and easy lettuce wrap recipes to try:
All of these recipes are packed with healthy and fresh ingredients. They’re quick and easy to make and oh so delicious!
1. Crab Dumpling Salad Wrap
Shrimp Dumpling Salad Wraps
Shrimp and salad go perfectly together. They are a super refreshing couple. This recipe is sweet and spicy, but the pickled carrots are the star. They give the perfect kick that makes shrimp and lettuce shine.
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2. Ground Turkey Santa Fe Wraps
Turkey Santa Fe Salad Wraps
This recipe is loaded with southwestern flavors. There’s corn, jalapenos, turkey, beans, cheese and tons of spices. But perhaps the best part is the delicious avocado cilantro ranch dressing.
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3. Buffalo Chicken Salad Wraps
Buffalo Chicken Salad Wraps
Who doesn’t love buffalo chicken? It’s one of the most iconic flavors out there. This chicken is prepared in a slow cooker to maximize flavor and juiciness. It also makes the recipe a lot easier!
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4. Asian Chicken Salad Wraps
Asian Chicken Salad Wraps
This wrap is incredibly flavorful but so quick and easy to make. It has strong flavors like garlic, soy sauce, and oyster sauce, and the ground chicken absorbs all the spices. It also has mushrooms, water chestnuts and scallions that add complexity to the wrap.
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5. BLT Sandwich Lettuce Wrap
BLT Lettuce Wraps
It doesn’t get more classic than a BLT. If you think you’ll like BLT sandwiches, wait until you try this lettuce wrap. After all, the “L” in “BLT” stands for “lettuce”! Diced tomatoes are mixed with mayonnaise and pepper and topped with chopped bacon. It’s perfect packaging.
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6. Steak Salad Tacos
Steak Taco Salad Wraps
This recipe is basically your favorite taco, but in a piece of lettuce instead of a taco. Juicy sirloin steak is prepared with a unique spice blend of cumin, oregano and garlic. The strips of meat are not only topped with homemade pico de gallo, but also with homemade guacamole!
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7. Buffalo Shrimp Salad Wraps
Salad wraps with buffalo prawns
Buffalo sauce isn’t just for chicken. If you want all the flavor of Buffalo Chicken but with a lighter protein, then this recipe bears your name. Shrimp pairs beautifully with buffalo sauce and either ranch or blue cheese dressing.
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8. Ground Turkey Taco Salad Wraps
Ground Turkey Taco Salad Wraps
Lettuce wraps go well with just about any type of taco filling. Made with lean turkey and five different spices, this recipe is as tasty as it is healthy. And it’s so easy to make!
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9. Tuna Salad Endive Wraps
Tuna salad endive wraps
This is a fun recipe that you can make in just a few minutes. It’s a simple (but perfect!) tuna salad to which large chunks of broccoli are added. The ingredients are stuffed into endive leaves to make perfect finger food.
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10. Deli-style chicken club salad wrap
Chicken Club Lettuce Wrap Sandwich
This keto-friendly wrap uses just five ingredients. But I bet you love all five! All that’s in this recipe is lettuce, chicken, bacon, tomatoes, and mayonnaise. What’s not to love? And as you can probably guess, it only takes a few minutes to make!
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11. Thai Chicken Salad Tacos
How to save
It’s best to eat lettuce wraps the day you make them. If you’re storing them in the fridge to make ahead of time, simply make the filling ahead of time and store in an airtight container in the fridge. Whenever you’re ready for a fresh and delicious lettuce wrap, scoop the filling onto a crisp leaf and you’re good to go!
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