Chicken Caesar lettuce boats
8 min · 44 g protein · 339 cals / serving
Everything you love about a chicken Caesar, eaten with your hands: ready-cooked chicken tossed in a punchy yogurt Caesar dressing with anchovy, lemon, garlic and parmesan, spooned into crisp romaine leaves and showered with more parmesan.
Ingredients
Caesar dressing
- 1/3 cup nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1 tbsp light mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tsp anchovy paste, or 2 anchovy fillets, mashed
- 1 small clove garlic, finely grated
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- about 2 cups rotisserie chicken, ready-pulled cooked chicken (or from a rotisserie chicken, skin removed)
- 1/3 cup grated parmesan, finely grated, divided
- 2 hearts romaine lettuce, leaves separated
Steps
- Whisk the yogurt, mayonnaise, lemon juice, mustard, anchovy, garlic and pepper in a bowl until smooth.
- Add the chicken and two thirds of the parmesan and toss until every shred is coated.
- Spoon the chicken into the romaine leaves, finish with the rest of the parmesan and a grind of pepper, and eat straight away.
Good to know
No anchovies in the house?
A teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce gives the same savoury depth (it is made with anchovies). Leave both out and the dressing is a perfectly good lemony parmesan one, just less Caesar.
I miss the croutons
A handful of store-bought croutons or a crumbled crispbread over the top brings back the crunch; 1/2 oz adds about 60 kcal a person.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 112
- Protein
- (52%)
- 15 g
- Fat
- (39%)
- 5 g
- Carbohydrates
- (9%)
- 3 g
- of which sugar
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 326 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. General guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your prescriber. How
As written, 678 kcal goes into the pot and 604 g of ingredients comes out as about 604 g of food: 112 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.