

Summer is officially over, but I’m squeaking in a few final summery recipes before we turn ourselves over to pumpkin, turkey legs and candy canes.
This easy meal is a main-and-side combo, with the grilled chicken and the side of coleslaw sleeping together in a tortilla. Pretty cozy!
It can be lunch, it can be dinner, or it can be a mere snack if you are my 13-year-old son. He can eat it and then ask innocently, “What’s for dinner.”
“You just ate our dinner,” I will answer, and in return, I get a guilty smile. I am going to have to start labeling things “Hands OFF. This means YOU.” I might even add a final “I MEAN IT.”
A chicken wrap with zesty coleslaw inside makes a dandy lunch or dinner. Use rotisserie chicken and bagged cabbage slaw mix to speed it along.
Ingredients
- Cole Slaw
- 1 cup cabbage slaw mix
- Kernels from 1 ear sweet corn
- 1 tablespoon mayonnaise (I used Hampton's Creek Chipotle Just Mayo)
- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives or green onion
- Couple of grinds of black pepper
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- For Wrap Assembly
- 4 taco-sized tortillas (I used Chi-Chi's Taco Style Flour Tortillas
- 1 cup cooked and shredded chicken (I used rotisserie chicken)
- Quick Mexican Pickled Onions and Carrots (optional)
Directions
- In a bowl, mix together the cole slaw ingredients until cabbage is well coated.
- Assemble wraps: Lay tortillas on a flat surface. Add cole slaw, some chicken, and a couple of Pickled Onions and Carrots. Roll up and secure with a toothpick.
- Serves 2 (2 wraps per person)
Notes
Recipe source: Adapted from Chicken Coleslaw Wrap on the blog Enriching Your Kid
I ran across this recipe from Shirley, who writes the food blog Enriching Your Kid. She’s a clinical psychologist who now takes care of her kids, and has a plethora of Indian recipes on her blog. I dare you not to get wanderlust while you peruse them.
I was tempted by her Spinach Burger (spinach and spuds…what’s not to like?), her Tofu Jalfrezi with lots of vegetables would make a good Meatless Monday option, and her Chicken Coconut Curry looks like a winner winner chicken dinner to me.
In the end, though, I succumbed to her Chicken Coleslaw Wrap idea. She packs it for a school lunch, “a combination of raw food and cooked chicken to provide enough nutrition and energy for the busy bodies,” she says. I repurposed it for dinner, and took a few shortcuts (buy the cole slaw mix, buy rotisserie chicken, etc.), because dinner on work and school nights is a time-is-of-the-essence type of thing, right?
I was assigned her blog as part of Secret Recipe Club, a sort of secret-Santa project for food bloggers. We are to quietly explore and cook for a month from this secret blog, and today is our reveal day of the recipe we have chosen to present.
Thanks, Shirley, for a delicious month of reading and cooking.
Meanwhile, browse the photo array below to see what else the Secret Recipe Club cooked up this month.
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These wraps look like a perfect tailgate food. So much could be prepared in advance. It’s my first SRC and I LOVE it!!
Terri,
Welcome to SRC! It’s a great group, and you’ll have fun.
I love easy dinner like this one. Looks so good and tasty! Yum! 🙂
Thank you Andi!
What a great dinner/lunch/snack. I love having these kind of versatile things on hand for hectic days.
I love any type of wrap and your looks delicious. Loving the corn in it!
Eat Good,
Late summer, early fall corn is the best, too!
This looks perfect for a quick, easy, and yet nutritious mid-week meal – I feel pretty certain that this will be making an appearance at my place one night soon.
Dorothy, I loved being assigned to your blog this month, and really enjoyed browsing through a whole heap of your posts. The recipe I made was a huge hit, and I will be making more dishes for sure.
Thanks Couscous! Let me know what else you try.
This is so different. Love the chipotle mayo too. The secret Recipe Club is such a fun idea!
Ginny,
It is truly fun each month.
The secret sandwich club sounds so amazing. Your wrap recipe looks heavenly. I can’t wait to try it.
Yum! Such an easy dinner idea!
these look awesome, I could just pick em up and run 🙂
Exactly right Jerry!
You turned this into the perfect recipe Dorothy, easy peasy and delicious.
Thank you Wendy!
Ooh I bet that would be perfect with pork too! YUM! Happy reveal day
Oh yeah, Sarah, pulled pork would be great!
Where I am, it’s only 9:30 am, yet for some strange reason I am already hungry for lunch… wonder why? 😉
Katie,
I cannot imagine!
Pumpkin, apple, and Halloween recipes are already all over the place and I am still dealing with summer recipes! This sounds light and refreshing, but also something I would eat all year round (because you know the holidays makes us feel disgusting!)
Kacey,
I agree with you entirely! I would eat this any day of the year. There can be too much of a good thing with holidays, methinks.
I love the ease of this dinner and using the last of summer vegetables.
These sound so good! I love a good chicken wrap!
Marye,
We all should have a good chicken wrap in our repertoire, eh?
What a great wrap to enjoy for lunch. love the flavor combo!
O yum! I could totally devour some of these!
Loved the way you did this. Classy presentation and neat short cuts. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks Shirley! I was inspired by YOU, of course!
These look great, and I totally get it! As a mom of a growing boy (now a man) we had to produce mass quantities of food.
Karen,
He is only 13, and I am in awe of how much he can put away.
Sounds quite delicious indeed…. perfect recipe for the season….
I got her blog a while ago, so that was a nice flash back down secret memory lane… 😉