Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Easy at-work lunch: chicken avocado wrap

I have hated wraps since I was in college, when they first got popular. I don’t know why, maybe the smell of the on-campus delis that served them — I could not stand that smell. I also hate that they are marketed as healthy, because usually the tortillas have one million calories and aren’t any better for you than regular bread. The tortillas I use are 80 calories each, and they hold plenty of stuff:


I used:
  • Perdue pre-cooked chicken bites, southwestern flavor — about 1/3 of the package
  • 1/2 red pepper, sliced and roasted
  • 1/4 avocado, sliced
  • 2 TBS hummus
  • 1/4 cucumber, sliced vertically into thin strips
  • About 1/8 block of Trader Joe’s low fat feta cheese
I roasted the red peppers and sliced the cucumbers the night before, and heated the red peppers up with the chicken in the toaster oven before putting it together. A microwave would work, or you could just have the whole thing cold. I spread the hummus on the tortilla first, then piled everything else on top. I was also going to add arugula but ran out of room; as it was I ate it more like a giant taco than a wrap. It came out to about 415 calories total; if you left the hummus out or just used less, it would be less than 400. Or you could leave out the avocado, but that would be crazy. All of my coworkers were jealous!



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