Clean eating salmon lettuce wraps

You are absolutely going to love these satisfying clean eating salmon lettuce wraps! They’re full of flavor, light and simple to prepare. This is a great healthy low-glycemic high-protein salmon recipe for dinner or lunch, especially when it’s warmer outside. It is also a good anti-inflammatory recipe to have if you’re starting a healthy diet to reduce inflammation.

You might have noticed lately, we are writing a lot about weight loss. How to lose weight that, how to lose weight this…workouts to do. Well the thing is: Yes, we have gained some weight and this is not the time of our life. We are not dirty dancing, we are just crying inside.

Losing Weight And Reducing Inflammation

So just for myself, we are trying to lose some weight right now. 25 pounds or 12 kg to be exact. This is how much we have gained over the last few years. Now to some that might be nothing, to us it’s 20% of our weight. So it’s a lot. We are not a growing baby or a pigeon after all. If you’re wondering about the pigeon “metaphor” – a few years ago we had 2 pigeon babies on the balcony and they grew fast. Some might find it disgusting that we're raising pigeons, but to us, those were the sweetest birds ever and never touched them with our bare hands.

Now back to us, myself and the double chin that’s living its own life now. Now that we're trying to lose weight, we are also cutting back on carbs, because we have gained a lot of belly fat. We've read many studies that show following a clean, lower carb anti-inlammatory diet helps with abdominal obesity (aka belly fat). So we're trying to eat clean and to add more anti-inflammatory recipes to our diet.

Enter the healthiest, most satisfying clean eating salmon lettuce wraps ever. They’re lower in carbs, full of healthy vegetables and fiber and some omega-3’s and protein from the salmon. And they taste notable!

Salmon Lettuce Wraps Ingredients

Here’s what you’ll need for the clean eating salmon lettuce wraps:

• salmon filets
• vegetables to cook – we chose asparagus, scallions, garlic, carrots and zucchini
• fresh raw vegetables like tomatoes, cucumber and lettuce (of course for lettuce wraps!)
• flaxseeds, lemon and black pepper
• and the ingredients for this herby sunflower seed cream cheese

How it comes together

We're not gonna lie to you: this recipe is similar to the recipe we did last summer (You know what we did last summer and that’s scaring us <- can you tell we grew up in the 90’s). But this one is still kinda different and we feel we enjoyed it even more than the last one.

It’s pretty simple to make.

You basically will need to wash some vegetables and then pan-sear the salmon with some of the most satisfying vegetables ever like asparagus and scallions. Last time we didn’t have asparagus, so used cauliflower.

Then you’ll also chop up some fresh vegetables and make a healthy herby cream cheese dip without actually using cream cheese. You’ll use soaked sunflower seeds and a bunch of other ingredients like herbs and lemon juice. Then blend them and your herby cream cheese is ready!

Put all that on a lettuce leaf and see what happens. We loved it.

Health Benefits

This recipe for clean eating salmon lettuce wraps is awesome, because it’s rich in antioxidants, it is anti-inflammatory, high-protein and low GI.

That’s why it’s great for your health, skin and even for weight loss. High in protein, omega-3’s, detoxifying nutrients from the asparagus, Selenium (which if you’re not eating some Brazil nuts, you might have a hard time getting) and a ton of other stuff.

You can eat these salmon wraps twice per week, because as we hear from everywhere fish is now basically more toxic than cyanide. Plus apparently, it’s not sustainable to eat fish every single day. We mean obviously, it’s way better for the environment and for us to eat soy-based sausages and junk food from McDonald’s.

However, a study from 2006 found that the benefits of fish consumption outweigh the risks. So be brave and don’t worry about having fish once to twice a week, just don’t eat fish every single day.