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CHICKEN LETTUCE WRAPS
LUNCHES

Ingredients:
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• 4 oz. chicken breast, cubed
• ¼ cup mushrooms, roughly chopped
• ¼ cup water chestnuts, chopped
• ½ teaspoon ginger root, grated
• 1 small garlic clove, chopped
• 2 teaspoons rice wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon tamari sauce
• 2 tablespoons scallions, chopped
• 1 teaspoon sesame seeds, toasted
• 1 cup cooked quinoa + riced cauliflower (half and half)
• Romaine or Bibb lettuce leaves
Directions:
Heat 1 teaspoon of oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add the chicken, and cook until
it’s no longer pink in the center, about 6 minutes. Set the chicken aside, and add the
remaining oil to the pan. Add mushrooms, water chestnuts, ginger and garlic to the pan.
Cook until fragrant, about 7 minutes. Combine rice wine vinegar and tamari. Toss chicken,
vegetables, and riced cauliflower quinoa mix with tamari mixture. Divide into lettuce
leaves, and top with scallions and sesame seeds.

SALMON PATTIES

Ingredients:
• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• ½ cup black beans, drained and rinsed
• 1 can wild salmon
• 1 scallion, chopped
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons oat flour
• ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
• 1 100% whole-wheat hamburger bun
• Lettuce leaves
• Tomato slices
• 1 Pickle, diced (read label on pickle — look out for any artificial coloring or preservatives)

Directions:
Heat the oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Combine all of the ingredients (except for
the bun), and form into a patty. Cook the patty until browned on both sides, and cook to
desired temperature, about 3 minutes on each side for medium-well. Serve the patty on
the hamburger bun, and top with lettuce, pickle and tomato.

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