Take a look at our video to see just how much you can make with this super easy food hack.
If you’re on social media a lot, you’ll probably have come across one of the latest foodie trends to be taking the likes of TikTok and Instagram by storm – the wrap challenge.
The idea is to lay out a wrap flat on a counter, plate or chopping board, and make one slit using a knife or pizza cut from one edge into the centre. This will allow you to fold it into four segments meaning you can have four of your favourite toppings or fillings all wrapped up together.
Team Food and Drink tried the trend out for ourselves, with Brian Stormont taking on a breakfast wrap, Rebecca Shearer on lunch and Julia Bryce making a sweet version for dessert.
Here’s how we got on…
Brian on breakfast
I chose to try and make a breakfast wrap – and must admit I was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. However, I did have a good teacher as my daughter, Cari, has been making these for a couple of weeks and talked me through it.
As it was the day before Burns Night I tried mine, I decided to put haggis in my brekky wrap along with bacon, lorne sausage, a plain omelette and a cheese slice.
I pre-cooked all my ingredients and laid them in each corner of the wrap. It followed well and cooked extremely well on my George Foreman grill.
However, the proof of the cooking is, as they say, in the eating and my wrap was absolutely delicious.
I will certainly make it again as a nice alternative to a normal way of eating your breakfast.
Rebecca on lunch
I’m not a morning person and I don’t really have a sweet tooth outside of chocolate bars, but lunch is where I thrive so I knew instantly what I was going to put in it – a BLT with cheese. Brian had already chosen bacon (which looks amazing) so I swapped it out for ham.
Along with the ham I put some spinach, tomatoes and some cheese slices, with barbecue sauce spread over the segment that the cheese was going to be placed on.
Nothing needed to be pre-cooked and it took only a few seconds to lay everything out on the counter that I was going to put in it.
The double layer of cheese and the chunky tomatoes is what I think made mine look a bit bigger than both Brian and Julia’s, but you can really tailor it to what you normally have at lunch.
If it can go in a sandwich, it can go in a wrap, meaning it can be a part of this wrap hack.
Julia on dessert
I have such a sweet tooth so knew I wanted to try something that had one of my favourite spreads in it – Nutella.
While I’m partial to some Nutella on toast for a weekend breakfast treat, this TikTok trend was one I had to try out – although I most certainly didn’t have it for breakfast.
On my wrap I added Nutella, marshmallows, some thin slices of banana and to top it all off, I added a chopped up Tunnock’s teacake for a little more gooeyness.
The wrap challenge was easy enough, although I used a griddle pan instead of a George Foreman which I think would have made it extra crisp and would have melted it more evenly.
The marshmallows melted much slower than the other ingredients so I’d recommend cutting them in half, or purchasing smaller ones which would melt much faster.
It doesn’t take long at all to create and was super easy to make. My only regret? Not dusting some icing sugar all over it at the end for that extra sweet punch. Enjoy!
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