Veggie Wrap – Super Healthy Kids

Our Veggie Wraps are made with a scrumptious, home made herbed cream cheese and are full of a lot of recent greens. It’s a wholesome and simple recipe that may be made forward and is ideal for packed lunches!

Fresh & Easy Veggie Wraps

When you’re making an attempt to make a acutely aware effort to get your children to eat extra veggies (with out gallons of ranch dressing), these wraps are a fantastic place to begin! My children love these wraps as a result of we use veggies which might be gentle and fairly kid-friendly. I wish to refer to those wraps as our “gateway veggies”- form of our entry into the world of scrumptious greens. Once children understand veggies aren’t so unhealthy, they usually have good experiences with them, they’ll possible be extra acceptable to new ones to come back. So, if you happen to assume your children received’t eat something green- begin with these! You will possible be shocked.

These wraps are additionally very talked-about with the grownup crowd, because of the creamy and flavorful herbed cream cheese. I wish to double or triple the recipe so I can have some readily available. It’s additionally scrumptious on crackers or toasted bagels! It provides a lot taste to those wraps and helps them maintain collectively too. These wraps could be made forward and are good for packed lunches. Healthy, easy, flavorful, and filling. Doesn’t get a lot better than that!

Ingredients You’ll Need To Make Veggie Wraps:

• Tortillas– You wish to use a sturdy 8″-10″ wrap that received’t tear simply. We used spinach wraps.
• Cheese– We used sliced havarti.
• Avocado
• Cucumber
• Tomatoes
• Carrot
• Lettuce
• Cream Cheese– We used common cream cheese, however neufchatel works nice too.
• Parmesan Cheese– You’ll wish to use canned grated parmesan within the cream cheese unfold.
• Green Onion– Chives work nice right here too. You may use dried minced onions in a pinch.
• Garlic Powder– I like to make use of garlic powder right here, however you may also use
• Cracked Black Pepper

How to Make a Veggie Wrap:

1. Make the herbed cream cheese. In a small bowl, mix softened cream cheese, parmesan cheese, sliced inexperienced onion, garlic powder, and freshly cracked black pepper. Stir effectively to mix; put aside.
2. Prep your greens. Grate the carrot, and thinly slice the tomatoes, cucumber, and avocado. Rinse your lettuce leaves.
3. Assemble your wraps. Spread every tortilla with a layer of the cream cheese combination. Top with lettuce, sliced havarti cheese, tomatoes, avocado, carrots, and cucumbers.
4. Roll ’em up! Roll tightly, being cautious to not tear your tortilla. Serve instantly, or wrap in plastic wrap and retailer within the fridge till able to serve. Enjoy!

Tips & Suggestions

Make-Ahead Meal

Sometimes I make these veggie wraps and serve instantly, however I often wrap them in some plastic wrap and put them within the fridge till we’re able to eat. Even simply half-hour or extra chilled will assist the wrap maintain its form. They’re good for packed lunches! This can be a good suggestion in case you are slicing them and serving them as pinwheels.

Veggie Wrap Filling Ideas

We love the mix of taste and textures on this primary model, however there are such a lot of methods to mess around with this recipe! Here are another fillings you possibly can strive:

• Sliced bell peppers
• Sprouts
• Sliced cabbage
• Sliced pink onions
• Thinly sliced radishes
• Fresh broccoli
• Add beans: Black beans, chickpeas, or white beans could be scrumptious.
• Replace the herbed cream cheese with hummus or guacamole. Or, make the herbed combination with plain greek yogurt.
• Switch up the cheese! Try cheddar, swiss, pepper jack, or crumbled feta.

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