Monday 10 February 2014

Big Spicy Filling Chicken Wraps

If like me, you have teenage children who have scoffed the Sunday Lunch at 2pm, it is often a problem of what to cook on a Sunday evening for tea/supper. Whoever cooks, doesn't want to be slaving over a hot stove for hours so these Big Spicy Chicken Wraps are a meal in themselves, and don't take a lot of cooking.

Ingredients for Family of 6 (adjust quantities for your family to suit)

1 pack of frozen pre-cooked diced chicken (can be cooked from frozen)-   £5  in Iceland or 2 packs of frozen chicken strips in Tesco @£2 per bag (whatever you buy make sure it can be cooked from frozen or buy fresh diced chicken)
3 mixed peppers (red, green, yellow) £1.75 at Tesco for 3 pack or you can buy a much bigger value pack at £2.50 which can be used in other recipes too.
2 onions @ 25p each approximately at Tesco
1 jar of Fajita sauce £2.09 at Tesco
2 packs Tesco Everyday Value wraps @92p each (8 wraps in each pack.. Allow for 2 each)

Optional

2 tablespoons oil
Salad

Method

Get a large frying pan and either dry fry the pack of frozen chicken or if you have vegetable oil put 2 tablespoons into the pan on a Medium heat setting.Add the chicken and keep turning for about 10 -15 minutes until the chicken starts to brown over. Cut the mixed peppers into small strips and add to the pan. Keep turning for a minute. Peel and cut the 2 onions into small diced pieces. Add those to the pan too and mix in well with the chicken and peppers.

On the top of the Fajita Sauce is a spice section. Throw the spice over the top of the chicken, peppers and onions and thoroughly coat the mixture in the spice. Then add the entire jar of Fajita sauce. Turn the heat down to a lower setting and thoroughly stir the mixture of ingredients and leave it to simmer for a further 5 minutes. If you have a microwave, take a couple of the wraps and warm them 4 at a time for about 25 seconds in the microwave. If you haven't got a microwave, no problem.

The chicken should be totally cooked through after 20-25 minutes in the pan. Fresh chicken may take slightly longer. Ensure the chicken is cooked thorough by slicing in half a few of the pieces and making sure they are cooked in the middle and not pink.

Turn the frying pan heat off and take your first wrap. Put a couple of spoonfuls of the chicken mixture into the wrap and then keep rolling the wrap over until it's like a cylinder shape. Do this for all 12 wraps (2 wraps each if there are 6 of you). If you want to put a bit of lettuce, tomato and onion on the side of the plate this is optional, but these wraps can be eaten as they are.

These wraps are filling. They certainly do the trick for hungry teenagers looking for a filling Sunday night  tea/supper and go down very well in my household!



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