Hi guys! This Wednesday I wanted to share with you a very basic, very delicious lunch recipe – my Greek Chicken Wrap.
Greek Chicken Wrap: crisp and refreshing
Whenever I’m deciding on meals for the week, I have a tendency to lean towards lunches that are crisp and fresh. I know myself, and I know I make more hearty and filling meals for dinner. So, a fresh lunch is a good balance for me, and is usually quicker to eat during my work day. For those reasons, these wraps are a great mid-day meal.
Now that spring time is here, cucumbers and tomatoes are back in season – I eat them all year long, but they are that much better this time of year, so I try to include them in my recipes often. Both vegetables give this wrap a cool refreshing crunch that will be great for the warmer spring days ahead.
The Perfect Wrap for Meatless Monday Friday
If purchased on Sunday, rotisserie chicken will keep until Thursday in the fridge. For Friday, I go meatless and make this wrap sans chicken, and I can barely tell the difference! The wrap is just as flavorful and easily gets me through to the weekend.
Low-Carb “Flat Out” Wrap
As you may have seen from some of my other recipes, I love using lettuce as a wrap substitute. But sometimes I’m just in the mood for a wrap – a REAL wrap. I found these wraps in college and they have become an integral part of my lunches ever since.
Unlike a romaine lettuce substitute, these “Flat-Out Wraps” actually taste like you’re having a WRAP, without turning your lunch into a carbohydrate bomb. Give them a try – I think you will be impressed.
Traditional Wraps: 150-200 calories, 35 g carbs, 1 g fiber
Flat Out Wraps: 100 calories, 21 g carbs, 8 g fiber
Quickly slice tomatoes
The most tedious vegetable to chop is the grape tomato, as you have to slice each tomato individually. There really is no efficient way to do this… OR IS THERE?
If you watch my video below I’ll show you a quick trick to cut all of your grape tomatoes in one shot.
Meal prepping your chicken wraps
When I meal prep this recipe, I chop all of the tomato, onion, and cucumber and divide up into Ziplock bags. I drizzle the olive oil and vinegar into the bag to keep all the wet components together. In a Tupperware, I put in the pre-filled ziplock bag, wrap, feta, and chicken then combine when I’m ready to eat!
Here are some meal prep tools that will make your life easier:
Reusable Meal Prep Containers | Dressing-2-Go Containers |Freezable Lunch Bag (stays cold up to 10 hours)
Ways to add variety
- Choice of Hummus: I use classic hummus because it’s my fave. You can also try red pepper, garlic, roasted pine nut to add an extra flavor boost!
- Varieties of Feta: I go with reduced fat feta but you can also try tomato/basil feta, or black pepper feta. If you don’t like feta, try goat cheese or mozzarella for a more mild flavor.
- Pre-made salad dressing: I make my own dressing by mixing olive oil and red wine vinegar, but if you have a different vinaigrette you love, give that a try!
- Meatless: you can easily go meatless with this recipe! I typically have a meatless wrap on Friday because my rotisserie chicken doesn’t last till Friday – it still tastes just as good!
Check out my other health lunch options HERE.
Greek Chicken Feta Wrap
Ingredients
- 1 Multigrain Wrap (I like the brand Flat Out referenced above)
- ¼ cucumber diced
- 5 grape tomatoes halved
- ¼ oz red onion finely chopped
- 1 tbsp classic hummus
- 1 oz feta
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 tsp red wine vinegar
- 2 oz rotisserie chicken
Instructions
- Spread your wrap with hummus.
- Layer your cucumber, tomato, red onion, feta, and rotisserie chicken.
- Stir together olive oil and red wine vinegar and drizzle over wrap.
- Fold into wrap and enjoy!
Delicious and EASY!! I subbed deli turkey instead of rotisserie chicken because it was what I had on hand but still so good! The red wine vinegar/olive oil dressing combo with the hummus is so simple but gives the wrap exactly what it needs!