First, I would like to apologise for not having posted here in ages. I have been so busy, and tired, lately. I hope to post here regularly from now on.
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| Weigh-less Sun-dried Tomato wraps |
Speaking of me being tired, I wanted a fast and easy dish to make for dinner today, so I opted to make a wrap dinner. Since we've never made wraps before in the house, my sister and I bought some ready-made wraps from the local Spar. The ones we bought are a sun-dried tomato version and are weigh-less. We didn't mean to buy weigh-less ones, but they were the ones we found and the organic herbs side.
The Nice thing about these wraps is they come with instructions of the various ways you can fold your wraps.
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| Instructions on backside of wraps |
To make the wrap dish, I began by making the filling which consisted of:
Chicken
I used three chicken breasts. These were fried in olive oil with sun-dried tomato paste, soy sauce, salt, and sweet Thai chilli.
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| Fried Chicken Breasts |
Mushrooms
I used four large Portobello mushrooms. These were first cut up and then stir fried in olive oil with some soy sauce and sweet basil leaves.
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| Fried Portobello Mushrooms |
Black-eyed Bean
The black-eyed bean were soaked in hot water and their skins removed. These we store in the freezer until needed. The beans were defrosted and then cooked for hours in a pot by our housekeeper with some salt and onion, to make the Owambo traditional dish 'oshigali' .
To make the paste, I added sun-dried tomato paste, basil pesto and dark soy sauce and reduced it down until a paste-like consistency was reached.
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| Black-eyed Bean paste |
Artichokes, Cherry Tomatoes and Chinese Sinach
The artichokes were bought from Spar already char grilled.
The cherry tomatoes were sprinkled with fresh parsley and coriander leaves.
The Chinese spinach was prepared by frying it in olive oil with some dark soy sauce. once it was cooked, basil pesto was run through it.
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| From top, clockwise: Cherry Tomatoes, Chinese Spinach, Char Grilled Artichokes |
Method
1. Place the wraps on a flat surface
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2. Place a small leaf of lettuce on top of each of the wraps
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3. Place a few Chinese spinach leaves on top of the lettuce leaves
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| Chinese Spinach Topping |
4. Next top with roasted artichokes
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| Roasted Artichokes Topping |
5. Add on the cherry tomatoes with parsley and coriander leaves
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| Cherry Tomatoes with Parsley and Coriander Leaves Topping |
6. Top with fried portobello mushrooms
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| Mushroom Topping |
7. Add on the Chicken
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| Chicken Topping |
8. And finally finish off with the bean paste
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| Bean paste topping |
9. Fold the two sides of the wrap over the filling
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| Finished Wrap |
10. "Tighten with the plastic sheets that separated the wraps from one another
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| 'Wrapped' Wraps |
I bought some coconut-oatmeal-wheat cookies from the Fruit Lovers Market, which I served as a dessert.
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| coconut-oatmeal-wheat cookie |
I then served the wrap together with the cookie in one package. You can tell I was feeling very lazy by the fact that I didn't even serve in proper dishes! These we recycled after eating as opposed to loading the dishwasher.
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| How I served the wrap and cookie - Home-style take away? |
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| Finished Packaged Dinner |
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| Cranberry and Kiwi Juice |
That's a wrap! Pun intend :p
Am I the only one that has been feeling tired and lazy lately? What do you cook on days when your brain just wants to shut down?
Happy cooking.
