Easy Cooking for Kids - Wrapped Sandwiches

A wrap sandwich is one of the easiest dishes for a child to master. While I've included some recipes below, basically all you need to do is give your child a tortilla and open the pantry door. Let them fill it with whatever their favorite ingredients are. You may have to show them how to do basics like spreading items on the tortilla, scooping the right amount of filling onto the tortilla and how to wrap up the tortilla around the filling. But once you've shown them that you can turn them loose.

Chicken Pepper Wrap

Ingredients

• 8 flour tortillas
• 1/2 cup red or green salsa
• packet of deli-sliced chicken
• 2 whole roasted red peppers, chopped
• 8 chopped black or green olives

Lay 1 tortilla on a large plate. Spread each with 1 tablespoon salsa. Top with 2 slices chicken.

Top chicken with red peppers and olives. Roll tortilla up around the filling as tightly as possible. If you'll be eating this sandwich later follow the instructions above for storing and heating, otherwise microwave each wrap for 1 and 1⁄2 minutes.

Variation:
You can use turkey or roast beef in place of the chicken.

Ham & Cheese Wrap

Ingredients

• 8 flour tortillas
• sliced Swiss cheese
  
• packet of deli-sliced ham or chopped ham
  
• mustard
• mayonaisse (optional)
  

Lay 1 tortilla on a large plate. Spread each with a bit of mustard. If mustard is too strong for your taste, mix mustard into the mayonaisse and use that as the sandwich spread. Top with 2 slices ham or a handful of chopped ham.

Top ham with 2 slices Swiss cheese. Roll tortilla up around the filling as tightly as possible. If you'll be eating this sandwich later follow the instructions above for storing and heating, otherwise microwave each wrap for 1 and 1⁄2 minutes.

Variation:
If you have leftover cooked bacon you can sprinkle that over the ham.

California Roll Up

Ingredients

• 1 flour tortilla
• 4 slices deli-sliced turkey
• 1 slice mozzarella cheese
• 4 thin slices cucumber
• 4 slices avocado
• alfalfa sprouts, micro greens or baby spinach
  

Top tortilla with turkey breast, cheese, cucumber and avocado slices, and a handful of sprouts/greens. Roll tortilla tightly around filling.

Cobb Salad Wrap

While this wrap is my way of cleaning out the fridge, I still want to use fresh and flavorful ingredients. I use whatever cooked or deli meat I have on hand, throw in a avocado if there's one hanging out, use any greens or fresh herbs in the crisper, the last of any creamy salad dressing or mayo thinned with lemon juice ... You get the idea. Basically a Cobb Salad is a combo of meat, salad veggies, bacon, egg and creamy salad dressing.
Ingredients

• 2 cups cubed cooked chicken or ham
• 2 tomatoes, seeded and chopped
• hard-boiled egg, sliced or chopped
• 3/4 cup creamy Parmesan salad dressing
• 3 cups mixed baby greens or baby spinach leaves3 slices bacon, crisply cooked and crumbled
•  6 flour tortillas

Combine all ingredients in medium bowl and gently mix. Spread mixture onto each tortilla and roll up.

Roast Beef Wrap

Ingredients

• 1 flour tortilla
• 3 to 4 deli-sliced roast beef
• cream cheese, spreadable or softened
• lettuce

Spread cream cheese on the tortilla. Layer roast beef slices and then lettuce on top of the roast beef. Roll tightly.

Bullseye

You could make this wrap with scrambled eggs but then you couldn't call it a "bullseye".
Ingredients

• 1 egg, fried
• 1 tortilla
• 1 slice cheese

Place cheese on top of tortilla. Top with hot egg. Roll wrap tightly around egg.

Bullseye With A Pig
Add cooked bacon or sausage to the wrap.

Deli Salad Wrap

Use your favorite deli salad in this super easy, super fast wrap.
Ingredients

• 3 cups deli vegetable salad such as a chopped salad or coleslaw
• 8 large lettuce leaves
• 8  flour tortillas

Place lettuce leaves on top of tortillas. Divide salad among the flour tortillas. Roll up tortillas, folding in ends.

Creamy Cheesy Deli Salad Wrap
Make wrap above substituting sliced or shredded Monterey Jack or mozzerella cheese for the lettuce. Follow instructions at top of this post for heating wrap until cheese is melted.

More Wrap Sandwich Recipes

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I hope these easy recipes for kids, recipes that kids can actually make themselves will become part of your regular family menu. Oh, and if your kids are hankering for dessert after their stint in the kitchen, point them over to this page of Quick & Easy Dessert Recipes For Kids which included Microwave Fudge For Kids!