Vegetarian Whole Wheat Wraps and COOKING CONTEST 2!

Posted on July 31, 2014 by

It’s time to run another cooking contest here on Expatcucina!

After the successful first recipe competition, now we are ready for a new challange. Rules are the same, you will have to create  one single recipe using all the ingredients that I have selected for this month contest. You can add any other ingredients you would like and make a main, or a starter or a side dish. That’s totally up to you!

Participants can email me their recipes with a picture of their final dish, from today until August 31st, then I will select one winner who will receive one free cooking class!

This month ingredients to use are:

Crispy Salad

Read Leaf Spinach

Feta Cheese

Cherry tomatoes

Mango

Artichokes

Purple Onion

Blueberries

NOTE: this cooking contest is partially sponsored by epermarket.com – you can buy the necessary ingredients (and more) on their website, enter the org code: expatcucina and receive a free bottle of wine (only for new customers)!

As I have done last month, I will share with you the recipe that I have created with those ingredients. 

Ingredients (serves 2):

  • 80 gr fresh blueberries
  • 1/2 purple onion
  • 4 big artichokes
  • 1 Mango
  • 40 gr feta cheese
  • 2 cups fresh crispy salad and red spinach 
  • 4 whole wheat tortillas
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • salt and pepper

Grab all the ingredients you need

DSC_0305

Wash the artichokes,

DSC_0306

remove the external leaves

DSC_0308

cut off the tips of the internal leaves 

DSC_0309

then cut the artichokes in half and remove the internal “dry” heart…don’t know how else to call it…

DSC_0310

then cut them into halves

DSC_0311

and saute’ them in a skillet with the olive oil and garlic. Season with salt and pepper and cook for about 10 min.

DSC_0316

Wash the tomatoes and cut them in halves

DSC_0314

Peel and slice up the mango

DSC_0312

Chop up the purple onion finely

DSC_0313

Then heat up a skillet and toast the tortillas on both sides for a couple of minutes

DSC_0315

then fill up each tortillas with a few leaves of crispy salad and red spinach, purple onion, a few blueberries, a few slices of mango, some feta cheese

DSC_0320

Wrap it up and serve with more salad as a side!

photo 1 (2)

Love

– LittleDani

About the author:

An Italian living in China with a strong passion for cooking! Browse my 'left-overs' session for many tasty grub!. Follow her on Twitter / Facebook.