Chicken Caesar Salad "Smash Burger" Wrap

These are incredibly easy and delicious. You can change things up by what kind of bread, meat or toppings you use, so the sky is the limit. But for this post, here is the basic Caesar recipe. Enjoy!

Chicken Caesar Salad Smash Burger Wrap

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. ground meat
• seasoning (I used "Everything But the Bagel")
• tortillas or pita bread
• salad kit, Caesar

Directions:

1. Divide up your meat evenly into however many wraps you are making.
• For a 1 lb. package, I was able to make three sandwiches pretty easily. If using a big tortilla, the meat may not go all the way to the edge.
2. Press the meat onto one side of your tortilla or pita bread, spreading out evenly and thinly.
• The meat needs to cook through quickly from one side, so don't make it too thick.
3. Sprinkle your seasoning over your meat, as much as you like.
• You can use any combination of seasonings that you like, but for this recipe, I used Everything But the Bagel.
4. Place on your griddle (sprayed with non-stick spray if using a low-fat meat such as ground chicken) and cook until your meat is done.
• I prefer to start with a cold griddle that I spray with non-stick spray, place my bread and seasoned meat "meat side down" and then turn the griddle on to 325 degrees. I feel like this gives the meat more time to slowly cook on the griddle and get done all the way through, as opposed to putting the meat on a hot griddle and then it's done on the surface before it's done all the way through.
• I cook until the meat is golden and cooked through, maybe 5 minutes or so with the idea that I could take it off the heat at this point and serve it.
5. Flip and toast the other side of your bread, if desired.
• I do this because I want my bread toasted on the other side and I want to give the meat a little more time and heat to keep cooking, if needed.
• I sprayed my bread-side before flipping and it came out nice and crispy once toasted.
6. Top with your salad kit and serve.

Marsha's Notes:

Be sure to use some kind of baking spray or butter on your skillet if using a low-fat ground meat like chicken, because things can (and will) stick during the cooking process. I thought I sprayed my griddle really well, and my ground chicken still stuck just a touch, so next time I might spray both the griddle and the meat itself.

This recipe would be great with any ground meat and any kind of salad kit/toppings. I am imagining using this some day for our Star Wars Ronto Wraps with ground pork.

Here are two pitas and one tortilla with the meat pressed onto one side and seasoned. I formed them on the griddle just to make sure all three were going to fit.

Here they are after I sprayed the (cold) griddle, flipped over and (griddle turned on and) cooking at 325 degrees.

Meat side is done! Everything is flipped to toast the other side.

I have seen people put these in a taco form to help them cool into more of a taco shape, but I just put mine flat on my plate and then folded up the sides burrito-style to eat.