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High-Protein Caesar Salad Wraps

By Wes Ellis2 min read
A grilled chicken salad wrap cut in half on a white plate.
Recipe card
Servings
4
Prep
10 to 15 minutes
Cook
None (no-cook)
Method
No-Bake
Difficulty
Easy
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Part 6 of the thread Bowls, salads and wraps

THE SHORT VERSION4 points
  • Half a pound of cooked protein makes four wraps.
  • Toss the filling with dressing, Parmesan, lemon and crushed croutons.
  • A whole romaine leaf goes in each wrap, not chopped lettuce.
  • Store the filling, not the wraps. Croutons go soft fast.
THE RECIPE · HIGH-PROTEIN CAESAR SALAD WRAPS

Ingredients

Filling

To assemble

You'll need

  • Mixing bowl
  • Measuring cups and spoons

Directions

  1. Cut or shred the cooked protein into bite-size pieces.
  2. In a bowl, stir together the protein, Caesar dressing, croutons, Parmesan, lemon juice, garlic powder and pepper until everything's coated.
  3. Lay a tortilla flat and put one big lettuce leaf on it. Spoon a quarter of the filling onto the lettuce.
  4. Fold in the sides, then roll it up snug, like a burrito.
  5. Repeat with the rest. Slice them in half on the diagonal and eat them right away.
Notes The filling keeps a day or two in the fridge on its own; add the croutons when you assemble. Any tortilla works, but lower-calorie ones keep the numbers down. Roughly 385 calories and 40 g protein per wrap, give or take.

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A Caesar salad is basically already a sandwich filling. It's got creamy dressing, crunchy croutons, sharp Parmesan and cold crisp romaine. Roll it up with some chicken and you've got four lunches from one bowl.

Crush the croutons

Whole croutons in a wrap are a mess. They're too big, they roll out the end, and they poke holes in the tortilla. Halve or lightly crush them before they go in, and they mix into the filling like crunchy little bits of breading. They'll soften the longer they sit in dressing, which is why this is a wrap you eat soon after rolling.

Heads up

If you're making these ahead, leave the croutons out of the stored filling and stir them in right before you assemble.

One big leaf

Use a whole romaine leaf instead of chopped lettuce. It lines the tortilla, keeps the dressing away from the bread, and adds that snap you want from a Caesar. Lay it along the tortilla with the rib running the same way you'll roll.

For the fork-and-bowl version of the same flavors, the Caesar Pasta Salad swaps the tortilla for chickpea pastaPasta made from chickpea flour instead of wheat. It has more protein than regular pasta and a slightly firmer, nuttier bite.More: Air Fryer Baked Pasta. And the Buffalo Chicken Wraps use the same roll-it-tight method with a spicier filling, plus a quick sear in the pan at the end.

Try this

Leftover shrimp from the Air Fryer Garlic Butter Shrimp makes a very good Caesar wrap.

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