Ultimate Chicken Wrap Recipe
Best Grilled Chicken Wrap Recipe – Enjoy these wraps with your favorite fillings for a quick, healthy, and satisfying lunch or dinner. They’re even easy to make ahead for meal planning!
Why We Love This Wrap Recipe
Both fresh and filling, a simple Grilled Chicken Wrap is always sure to please!
This easy make-ahead chicken wraps recipe comes together in only 30 minutes. So it is great to include as part of your regular meal prep plan for quick work or school lunches! The recipe can even be personalized with all sorts of veggies and toppings, so you can change things up to your tastes week-to-week.
We love the simple flavors in the combination of perfectly grilled chicken, lettuce, sprouts, tomato, avocado, cheese, and Caesar dressing. Yet feel free to add olives, pickled peppers, fresh bell peppers, and various types of cheese or dressing. You can even put buffalo chicken seasoning on the chicken before grilling! Here you’ll find all kinds of easy tips and lots of tasty ideas for making the best chicken wraps right at home.
Ingredients You Need
- Boneless chicken – breast or thighs
- Flour tortillas – burrito size (or almond tortillas for grain free)
- Romaine lettuce leaves – rinsed and dried
- Alfalfa sprouts – ready to go / pre-washed
- Plum tomatoes – chopped
- Avocado – cubed
- Cheddar cheese – shredded
- Caesar dressing – we prefer creamy Caesar
- Lemon pepper seasoning – optional
- Salt – to taste
How to Make the Best Grilled Chicken Wraps
Preheat the grill to medium heat. Sprinkle the boneless skinless chicken pieces liberally with lemon pepper seasoning and salt.
Once the grill is hot, grill the chicken pieces for 5 minutes per side. Then move them to a cutting board and allow them to rest for at least 5 minutes.
Once the chicken has cooled, chop it into ½ inch cubes.
Meanwhile, trim the romaine lettuce leaves to be 3 inches shorter than the flour tortillas. Chopped the tomatoes into ½ inch cubes. Then chop the avocado into ½ inch cubes as well.
Now we assemble! Lay a tortilla out on a cutting board. Place the trimmed lettuce leaves over the tortilla, side by side.
Sprinkle half an ounce of alfalfa sprouts over the lettuce leaves, followed by a good drizzle of Caesar dressing, about 1 ½ tablespoons per wrap.
Arrange approximately 1/4 cup of chopped chicken down the length of one lettuce leaf.
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Then arrange 2 tablespoons of diced tomatoes and 2 tablespoons of diced avocado over the lettuce leaves.
Sprinkle 1 ounce of shredded cheese over the top of the tomatoes and avocados.
Tips for How to Roll a Wrap
You want to have a good 1-2 inch area of empty space around the exterior of your fillings… But also be sure to not load up the toppings too high.
Fold the ends of the tortilla over the short ends of the lettuce leaves. Then starting on one long edge, roll the wrap like a burrito tucking in the ends as you roll.
The final product should be one equally portioned cylinder with the ends completely tucked inward.
Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Cut each wrap down the center, at an angle.
Either wrap in plastic and refrigerate for later, or serve immediately.
Recipe Variations
This grilled chicken wrap recipe is terrific to customize! Here are a few ways you might want to change things up:
- Seasonings – spice up the grilled chicken with garlic powder, cumin, and paprika, buffalo chicken seasoning, or chipotle seasoning before grilling
- Tortillas – use flour, whole wheat, low carb, almond flour, or spinach tortillas
- Protein – add cooked chopped bacon, fried chicken pieces, cooked rotisserie chicken, or our shredded chicken
- Veggies – include sliced olives, pickled peppers, fresh bell peppers, red onion, corn, and cucumber slices… Just about anything you want!
- Cheeses – swap shredded cheddar with shredded colby or Monterrey jack, pepper jack, crumbled goat cheese, or crumbled feta
- Dressing – instead of Caesar you can use ranch dressing, thousand island, or blue cheese dressing
Frequently Asked Questions
Firstly, you want the tortilla to be slightly warm… Cold tortillas are more likely to rip. Briefly warm the tortillas in the microwave, only 5-10 seconds, so they are a bit more pliable.
The next important tip is: do not overload the wrap. While it might seem obvious, we can all use a reminder that sometimes less is more.
Yes, these are quite healthy. Lean grilled chicken is matched with your choice of toppings, so you can go as light or heavy as you like here! Load on the veggies for an equally tasty and nutritious lunch or dinner.
Really, what doesn’t go well with these? Chips, french fries, and all kinds of fried things like onion rings, fried pickles, and air fryer tater tots. Wraps are also great with salads, from healthy crisp green salads to classic macaroni salad and potato salad… Basically, anything that you’d serve alongside a sandwich is good here!
Yes! This recipe is perfect to make in advance as part of your weekly meal plan. Grill up a large batch of chicken and use it to prep 4-5 days worth of meal prepping. Prep all of the fresh veggies and store them in a separate container for up to a week.
Wrap them up individually with plastic wrap, and keep them in the fridge for up to 5 days.
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Ultimate Grilled Chicken Wrap Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds boneless chicken breast or thighs
- 8 large burrito-size flour tortillas
- 16 romaine lettuce leaves
- 4 ounces alfalfa sprouts
- 2 plum tomatoes
- 1 ripe avocado
- 8 ounces shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- ¾ cup Caesar dressing
- Lemon pepper seasoning
- Salt
Instructions
- Preheat the grill to medium heat. Sprinkle the boneless skinless chicken pieces liberally with lemon pepper seasoning and salt.
- Once the grill is hot, grill the chicken pieces for 5 minutes per side. Then move them to a cutting board and allow them to rest for at least 5 minutes. Once the chicken has cooled chop it into ½ inch cubes.
- Meanwhile, trim the romaine lettuce leaves to be 3 inches shorter than the flour tortillas. Chopped the tomatoes into ½ inch cubes. Then chop the avocado into ½ inch cubes as well.
- To Assemble: Lay a tortilla out on a cutting board. (If the tortillas are not pliable, briefly warm them in the micriwave for 5-10 seconds.) Place the trimmed lettuce leaves over the tortilla, side by side. Sprinkle half an ounce of alfalfa sprouts over the lettuce leaves, followed by a good drizzle of Caesar dressing, about 1 ½ tablespoons per wrap. Arrange approximately 1/4 cup of chopped chicken down the length of one lettuce leaf. Then arrange 2 tablespoons of diced tomatoes and 2 tablespoons of diced avocado over the lettuce leaves. Sprinkle 1 ounce of shredded cheese over the top of the tomatoes and avocados.
- To Roll: Fold the ends of the tortilla over the short ends of the lettuce leaves. Then starting on one long edge, roll the wrap like a burrito tucking in the ends as you roll. The final product should be one equally portioned cylinder with the ends completely tucked inward. Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Cut each wrap down the center, at an angle. Either wrap in plastic and refrigerate for later, or serve immediately.
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Made this last night and it was amazing! A definite twist of my typical grilled chicken/burrito combo, but the addition of sprouts and Caesar dressing was so good! Hubby loved it too so it will become part of the rotation for sure! Thanks as always Sommer for keeping us well fed!
I think this chicken wrap has become my new favorite lunch recipe — it’s so good!! Thank you for sharing it!
This chicken wrap recipe is one of my best comfort food! I love having this for lunch, especially at work. So comfy and delicious!
My kids LOVED this!! I have been trying to mix up their lunches and this was perfect.
this is my go to wrap for my lunches at work! thank you so much for sharing this amazingly tasty recipe!