Tuna, egg and Walkers crisps in a wrap – it’s a step up from a regular sandwich and really feels like a treat! This easy tuna sandwich filler will make 1-2 wraps, depending on how generous you want to be with your fillings.
This easy to make snack, or packed lunch, can be eaten cold, or even hot!
Soft Tortilla Wrap Filling Ingredients:
- 1 small tin of tuna, drained
- 2 eggs, hard boiled
- 2-3 tablespoons salad cream, or mayonnaise
- 1 pack Walkers crisps, any flavour
- 1-2 large, soft, tortilla wraps, depending how many you want to make (generous or making food stretch)
Method:
- I use my microwave egg boiler to make hard boiled eggs. Peel the hard boiled eggs and chop them up chunky or smooth/fine, depending on your taste.
- Add the egg to the drained tuna and add the salad cream or mayonnaise. Mix together – you can leave it chunky, or you can use a blender/food processor to whisk it up to a super fine paste if you wish (extra washing up!)
- Make a cut from the centre of the wrap to the edge.
- Place a heaped tablespoon of tuna and egg onto each of three quarters of the tortilla wrap
- Place crisps on top of the tuna/egg sandwich filler.
- Starting at the empty quarter wrap, fold over the first quarter onto the second quarter, then continue in a clockwise direction until your wrap is a stack of tortilla wrap, tuna and crisps – and ready to eat!
This is a neat and attractive way to fold wraps; probably the easiest way to fold a wrap.
Why Leave the First Quarter Empty?
It’s the first fold – if you put something on the first quarter it’ll fall off, or be fiddly when you do the first fold. After the first fold everything’s easy to keep in place.
You can add spread, or chutney, or sauce, ketchup, to that first fold if you wish – in this instance, you could spread it with mayonnaise or salad cream, for example.
If you’re short of tuna, but have lots of crisps… just place the tuna in the 1st quarter and crisps in the 2nd and 3rd – it’ll fold up so the tuna’s in the middle, sandwiched between two layers of crisps.
4 Way Wraps – Order of Layers
I’m not bothered what ends up where a lot of the time when making wraps – and in this case it doesn’t matter as all three layers contain the same.
However, you can determine the layer order by putting the fillings into the right quarters:
- 2nd quarter (top left): This will end up in the middle layer
- 3rd quarter (top right): This will end up on an outer layer
- 4th quarter (bottom right): This will end up on an outer layer.
If you’re bothered by the order of the layers and how your wrap filling stacks, then just spend 30 seconds thinking it through before you place the ingredients into the tortilla quarter sections.
Where Do You Get Filling Ideas From for Tortilla Wraps?
Anything that goes into a sandwich is probably good to go into a tortilla wrap. But if you want something a bit different to try, then google a local sandwich shop and see what fillings they put into theirs! I’m usually working with the fewest ingredients possible and cupboard essentials, so my wraps tend to just be plain and simple in the main!
Cost of a Filled Tortilla Wrap: 54p per filled tortilla wrap
The price per tortilla wrap will depend on whether you’ve stretched this to two wraps, or over-filled one. At today’s prices, the cost of this wrap was
Tuna, 66p; eggs, 16p; salad cream 2p; crisps* 8p. Tortilla wraps, 8p each
TOTAL: £1.08 for two filled wraps
*I actually bought these crisps at an out of date food warehouse, spending £2 for 24 packs, so 8.3p/packet, but supermarket own brands can be bought just as cheaply.