Avocado Pesto Chicken Salad Lettuce Wraps
From shandy 8 years ago
- 20 to make
- Serves 4
This is one of the best pesto recipes I've made to date. Fresh basil and avocado make the Wow factor. Easy recipe and filling lunch or dinner. This is a keeper and I found the recipe on Wendy Polisi's blog: http://wendypolisi.com/avocado-pesto-chicken-salad-wraps/
Ingredients
- Pesto shopping list
- 1 cup fresh basil, loosely packed shopping list
- 2 ounces fresh Parmesan, grated shopping list
- 1/4 cup pine nuts shopping list
- 1 avocado, pitted, peeled and chopped shopping list
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic shopping list
- 1/4 cup olive oil shopping list
- 1 teaspoon sea salt shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper shopping list
- Salad shopping list
- 1 pound organic boneless skinless chicken breast, cooked and shredded shopping list
- 4 green onions, chopped shopping list
- For wraps shopping list
- Bibb lettuce leaves shopping list
- Tomato, Chopped green onion, pine nuts, fresh lemon juice shopping list
How to make it
- Place basil, Parmesan, pine nuts, avocado, lemon juice, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper in a blender and process until smooth.
- Place chicken and green onions in a large bowl and toss with pesto.
- To make wraps, place lettuce leaves on a plate and top with chicken salad. Add tomato, more green onion, and pine nuts. Finish with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and serve.
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