That’s a (buffalo chicken) Wrap, Folks!

For this week’s meal prep challenge I decided to streamline our morning routine by pre-preparing our lunches. I found inspiration on the Half Baked Harvest website and chose to make their Folded Crispy Buffalo Chicken Wraps. These may not be the healthiest wraps around, but they looked super tasty and there were some healthy substitutions such as Greek yoghurt for the standard buffalo sauce cream cheese.

I decided to approximately double the recipe in order to make enough for the upcoming work week for both my husband and my own lunches. For the buffalo sauce I rather conveniently had some buffalo spice mix on hand (woot!) which I mixed as directed with ketchup etc. To prepare the shredded chicken I simply boiled the chicken breast for about 30 minutes until fully cooked and then shredded with two forks in a bowl. I have used this method before and it is very effective and ensures the chicken doesn’t dry out too much. I also chose to simplify my life by using the remainder of a jar of Jalapeno Ranch sauce (convenient again I know) rather than making that from scratch as the recipe suggests. Over all, the recipe took about 1 hour 15 minutes and while the chicken boiled I had time to prep everything else, before assembling the wraps using the four quadrant method shown in the picture below. The trick with this triangular wrap is the small slit that runs from the center of the circle outward between the cheese and chicken to the edge. When you are ready to wrap it up, you simply fold the chicken onto the greens, then onto the sauce and then onto the cheese forming a triangle. The resultant package is then fried in a bit of olive oil on the stove and then I packaged them up for storage in the fridge.

As you can see from the image above, these wraps looked quite tasty and I was able to make 10! I only froze four as I am extremely skeptical about how well the lettuce will freeze. I was able to make more wraps than expected, and so I am also a little concerned that even in the fridge, the lettuce in them may not be very tasty by midweek. However, I can confirm that fresh these are fantastic. They have a nice mild heat from the peppers, onions and spices and are very satisfying. The cost was also very reasonable, coming to $38.85 for the entire batch, or $3.89 per portion. We will definitely be making these again!