Cranberry Chicken Wraps with Blue Cheese and Walnuts
Give new life to that leftover chicken in the fridge! A chicken wrap with dried cranberries, crunchy walnuts, and blue cheese topped with a creamy poppy seed dressing is a great lunch or a light dinner.
Cranberry Chicken Wrap
I’ve long believed that when cooking chicken breasts – whether it’s grilling, baking, pan-searing, etc – one should always cook extra for lunch the next day. I’m not always a fan of leftovers, but when those leftovers morph into something brand new – say, a simple chicken breast wrapped up with cranberries, walnuts, and chunks of blue cheese – they’re not leftovers anymore, right?
I wouldn’t put these chicken wraps in the same column as a chicken salad sandwich, mainly because the wraps have no mayo and instead have a creamy poppy seed dressing. The combination of blue cheese, walnuts, and dried cranberries works so well with the chicken and dressing.
Ingredients
- Large flour tortillas: I like to use the burrito-sized ones.
- Lettuce: Romaine, butter lettuce, or green lettuce leaves work great.
- Cooked chicken: Leftover chicken works great, or use rotisserie chicken.
- Poppy seed dressing: Use my recipe or your favorite store-bought dressing to make it easy.
- Dried cranberries
- Chopped walnuts
- Crumbled blue cheese
How to Make Them
☑️ Tortillas and Lettuce
Lay the tortillas flat on a cutting board. Place a single layer of lettuce leaves on each tortilla. The tortillas should be mostly covered.
☑️ Add the Fillings
Top each with some chicken, cranberries, walnuts, and blue cheese.
☑️ Dressing
Drizzle the dressing over the taco and fold the wrap like a taco for serving.
More Wraps and Sandwiches
Cranberry Chicken Wraps with Walnuts and Blue Cheese
These wraps have chicken crunchy walnuts, dried cranberries, and creamy blue cheese drizzled with a light poppyseed dressing. They’re a quick and easy lunch or dinner idea.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 wraps 1x
- Category: Lunch
- Method: Assemble
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 4 burrito-sized flour tortillas
- 4 lettuce leaves
- 16 ounces cooked chicken, sliced, diced, or shredded
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
- 1/4 cup poppy seed dressing or more to taste
Instructions
- I like these wraps taco-style instead of rolling the filling up in the tortillas. Start by lining each tortilla with a lettuce leaf.
- Add the sliced chicken and top each wrap with a couple of tablespoons each of the cranberries, walnuts, and blue cheese. Drizzle one tablespoon of the dressing over the top of each wrap and serve.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 wrap
- Calories: 563
- Sugar: 16.9g
- Sodium: 854.6mg
- Fat: 26.5g
- Saturated Fat: 9.3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 14.2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 47.2g
- Fiber: 2.5g
- Protein: 36.4g
- Cholesterol: 95.4mg
The nutrition is an estimate only. It was calculated using Nutrifox, an online nutrition calculator.
More Recipes with Cranberries
- Sparkling Cranberry Lemonade
- Chicken Salad Lettuce Wraps
- Cranberry Smoothie
- Cranberry Orange Muffins
These cranberry chicken wraps are such an easy lunch idea! I hope you try them the next time you have some cooked chicken to use up.
Happy assembling,
This post has been updated from the archives. It was first posted in January 2010.
I’ve saved this. It looks like a terrific weeknight meal. I love to grab those rotisserie chickens at the store for these kinds of meals. Yum!
yes, I do want this in my lunch bag – delisious
Oh that wrap looks delicious!!!
I like the sweet hit of dried cranberries – a great idea to add that zip to a sandwich.
Thanks.
I love dried cranberries. Just a few go a long way!
Thank you!