Recipe submission and feedback thread for Warburtons Square(ish) Wraps and Sandwich Thins

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Hello testers

Once you have used the Warburton Square(ish) Wraps and Sandwich Thins please post your recipes for using them on this thread. All testers who put a recipe on the thread (as well as any other feedback they want to give about the products) will be entered into a prize draw to win a £150 voucher for John Lewis.

We'd also like you to email us photos of your creations for possible use on the Warburtons page on Mumsnet (coming soon!). Please send your photos to [email protected] along with the recipe title or description so we can match them to what you post on this thread.

Warburtons would also like any other feedback you have - so how did you use the Warburton Square(ish) Wraps and Sandwich Thins? What did you think of them generally? What did the children think? Any other family members get to share them? Do you think you would recommend them to other people? Would you buy them again?

The best recipes submitted here will then be chosen to feature on the Warburtons page on Mumsnet.

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MNHQ

Thins were great;

Toasted them in toaster bags with cheese chicken and pickle (don't ask!!) and were devoured very quickly.

OF course the ultmate test for any sandwich product is the fish finger sandwich!

So we mixed some mayonnaise with chopped tarragon, grilled 3 fish fingers (Thins were perfect size for 3 fish fingers!.

Lightly toasted the thins then piled up a dollop of mayonnaise, some rocket and the fish fingers!

Definitely passed the test and photo on its way!!!

Wraps tonight......

Squarish Wrap Recipe:

Lunchtime Split

Cut roughly a quarter off the end of the wrap (short side) using kitchen scissors. Use smaller part for banana dessert, the larger part for pizza.

Non-dairy Pastrami Pizza

Pour around two tablespoons of olive oil into a small bowl. Add about a teaspoon of olive pate or tapenade and stir in. (And optional dried chilli flakes.) Spread the oil mix generously over the wrap using a teaspoon.

Take two or three slices of pastrami and tear into bite size pieces. Dot the pieces over the wrap in a pizza stylee.

Add pieces of bite-sized fresh tomato in between the pastrami (about four cherry tomatoes, or two smallish non-cherry ones).

Pop under grill, and remove when the edges of the bread start to look toasty.

Tear up some basil leaves and sprinkle over top. Season with black pepper and Malden sea salt.

To serve ? use kitchen scissors to cut into strips about 2-3 inches wide. Eaters can fold these over on their plates to make mini sandwiches ? it?s tidier as this one is quite luscious and drippy. (Or you could just use a knife and fork of course.)

Variations ? you could use pesto intead of olive pate (might contain dairy though). Could try ham, tuna or anchovies instead of pastrami.

Banana dessert

Take half a large banana, or one small one, and put it on the smaller portion of wrap which you cut off earlier.

Press into banana with a fork (don?t completely mash) so that you have ridges along the banana. Try and cover as much of the bread as possible with banana.

Sprinkle with sea salt, or honey, or both. The salt thing sounds a bit weird but you get a lovely salty caramel effect as the banana cooks. I don?t think you need the honey if it?s a ripe banana.

Put under a medium hot grill until bread starts to toast. Remove, fold, eat.

Photos on the way

Thins:

Fresh tomato relish beefburger

Relish: Take around 5 normal sized or 10 cherry tomatoes (sweet and ripe). Cut into pieces and put in frying pan with a slosh of olive oil, chilli flakes, and two teaspoons of olive pate or tapenade. Gently fry until tomatoes start to break down to a relish-like consistency.

Beefburgers: Cook your burger of choice by your preferred method. 100% beef is obviously best for nice beefburgers .

Lightly toast the thins, and spread with mayonnaise, butter, or olive oil. Make up your burger, putting the tomato relish inside the bun. Add basil and/or rocket.

Photo on the way - this one wasn?t so photogenic, but tasted fine!

Feedback on the products themselves:

Wraps:
I liked these better than the thins, they are more versatile and seem more substantial. I like the fact that you can cut them with scissors (but maybe that's just my personal weirdness...).

Nice both toasted and untoasted. They would be handy for lunchbox food as you can literally wrap the filling up in a tidy fashion. The fact that they are square(ish) makes them easier to use and portion up than the round varieties.

Thins:
DH used these for his lunchtime sandwiches one day (stilton, pastrami, and rocket) and gave them a thumbs up. I think they are fine for sandwiches, but agree with the poster who said that one's not quite enough, and two seems a bit too much. Having said that, they are a good size for younger children and not having crusts is a bonus as far as they are concerned.

Both products seem quite good if you're trying to cut down on carbs as they are quite thin but can hold a fair amount of filling.

It would be nice to try a more 'granary' variety of both if that's possible.

(C+P from other thread)
This morning I transformed the sandwich thins into a mircaulous hangover cure, a kind of croque madame with a twist:

jamon jamon

Lightly grill two sandwich thins on both sides, then cover one side with grated cheddar and grill.
Add liberal amounts of jamon iberico (ponce emoticon?) and top with an almost perfectly poached egg.
Season to taste and serve with a lovely huge cup of tea.

Hangover: Sorted.

Pics emailed to insight

Roast beef canapes

Chop the square-ish wrap into c. 6-8 small squares, brush with olive oil, lightly toast, then top with rare roast beef, rocket and strong horseradish sauce.

(Pics to come)

Verdict:
Found the packaging challenging, even though it looked spot on.
Sandwich thins were slow to toast but tasted great when they were, made the perfect soldiers with a boiled egg.
My four year old dd loved them in any form, especially topped with classic scrambled egg and smoked salmon combo.
Tortilla wraps tasted great, better au naturel than toasted I think.
Didn't roll up effectively like softer tortillas but still declared a success.
Think the addition of eg sesame seeds would be a nice idea.

Thanks MN & Warburtons!

One more for the Square-ish Wraps:

Toddler / Small Kid Sized Sarnies

Cut a wrap in half, and create one big sarnie from it, using your child's filling of choice.

When complete, cut into smaller pieces (size depending on age of toddler / child) and arrange artfully on a plate.

They're a nice thin manageable mouth size, and don't have crusts - voila.

Pic on the way

Oh and I guess the mini-sandwiches could cunningly double up as canapes if you wanted (probably best to use something more sophisticated than just edam cheese slices though).

Could use deli meats, brie, smoked salmon, roasted veg etc... and use olive oil with added olive pate as a spread maybe, lightly toasted.

Cheesy Beany Wraps (or as DS says "I will call these bread rolls"!)

Ingredients
Pinto beans
Grated cheese
Salsa
1 wrap per person

Method
Squash some of the beans with a fork - not all of them though as it's nice to have a mix of squashy beans plus some whole ones. Mix the beans with salsa according to taste and spread of one half of a wrap. Add grated cheese, fold in half and put in a panini press until crispy.

Serve with extra salsa to dip.

These were really good, the wraps were a lot nicer hot than cold. I would probably buy the wraps again if I planned to do a hot dish, like this but I wasn't too keen on them cold.

One more to add to my previous efforts:

Veggie Burger Wrap:

Grill veggie burger of choice (We used Quorn red onion burgers)

Slice into strips

Fill wrap with finely chopped salad, rest burger strips on top, drizzle with yogurt dressing (3 parts yogurt to 1 part red wine vinegar, salt & pepper)

Wrap, then chop in half.

Yum.

Other thoughts on the products:

Packaging - bit rubbish - I also had to take to the wraps with scissors, and then the pack ripped anyway, making the resealable bit redundant.

Liked the taste & texture of both products. Agree that for an adult the thins could do with being a little more substantial. Would love a wholegrain/lower GI version.

Which way were people wrapping the wraps (iyswim?) Did you wrap so you had a long wrap (with less 'wrapability' around the filling) or so you had a short, fat wrap? I will admit to rearranging my filling more than once to decide which would be better .

Will email photos for this & my earlier posts in a minute MNHQ

Margerita Pizza Squarish Wraps

1 wrap
2-3 tbsp tomato sauce (made from roasting a few little salad tomatoes, then whizzing them in food processor)
1 bag of mozarella, sliced
1 large slice of thinly sliced prosciutto with rosemary
Drizzle of olive oil

Assemble in above order, cook in oven for 15-20 minutes.

That serves two children.
(I'll email a pic now)

Grown Up Version
As above x2

• whatever else you want to put on your pizza (I like anchovies and artichoke hearts from a jar.

I do not cook (lack of confidence, and I find it tiresome), and this has been a bit of a revelation actually! I will definitely buy the square-ish wraps again. DS2 (3) also liked a strip of wrap (cut with scissors) spread with nutella and rolled up like a swiss roll.

I really liked the taste and texture of the wrap. Again, a whole grain or low GI version would be fab.

Used the sandwich thins today

1. Cream cheese, grated cheddar and chopped celery

2. Cheddar and marmite

They held together well in a lunch box and tasted fine

OK, here's our feedback and recipes from the crikeybadger sett.

Sandwich thins- thought they were a bit gimmicky and a bit over processed, felt a bit plasticky. We decided to turn them in to 'garlic toasts'.

-Very lightly toasted them
-Spread with butter and crushed garlic
-Retoast till golden.

There were cries of "Mmmm delicious" from the three mini badgers.

With the remaining sandwich thins, we made pain perdu and cooked bananas.

Dip bread in a mixture of egg, milk, sugar and cinnamon.

Fry in butter until golden and cooked.
Sprinkle with caster sugar.
Serve with bananas fried in butter, golden syrup and brown sugar or summer fruits for a slightly less calorie laden desert.

Both went down very well and did taste better than expected but I doubt we'll buy the sandwich thins again. Can't really see the difference in just normal bread tbh and they just seem too flimsy.

Squarish tortillas-

OK, so these were a lot of fun (once we had managed to get in to the pack!).

Really liked the thicker texture of them compared to some of the thinner tortilla wraps that we usually buy for school packed lunches.

So, we came up with the following ideas for fillings
-Humous, grated carrot, grated apple and a pinch of cumin. (this tasted really healthy and fresh although DS was a bit about the apple/carrot combination)
-Stilton and mango chutney (yum)

• Cottage cheese, grated carrot, grated apple, sprouts (the seed type not brussels!) and chopped onion.
• and finally one from DH- trout (he catches his own but you could buy hot smoked trout or smoked mackerel), add some watercress and some horseradish mixed in with some greek yoghurt and roll up.

The squarish wraps were great and I've already been out and bought another pack to go in the freezer for packed lunches. Most importantly they pass the 'separation test'! When frozen in the pack some tortilla wraps are difficult to split and sometimes one part of the wrap ends up stuck on the previous one. Sounds like a minor thing, but anything that reduces the packed lunch preparation stress has to be a good thing.

We also filled some with cheese and ham and folded them over and cooked in a pan until the cheese had melted. These went down very well with the DC.

Right, well we've eaten them all now. In addition to the thoughts and recipes I posted on the other thread, I have two new recipes that were, if I say so myself, rather yummy.

Roast vegetable stack

Roast a selection of veg - I used some courgette, mushrooms, red onion and red pepper.

Cut a squarish tortilla into four quarters.

Smear a bit of olive oil over a baking dish and lay one quarter of tortilla in the dish.

Spread with pesto (I used a roast vegetable pesto, which worked well) and top with some of the roast veg - I just used some of the courgette and mushrooms.

Put another piece of tortilla on top. Spread with a tomato-based pasta sauce (I used some leftover home-made pizza topping I had in the fridge) and top with some more of the roast veg. I used the red pepper and onion here.

Put another piece of tortilla on top and repeat the pesto and veg combination from the first layer.

Put the last piece of tortilla on top and spread with a mixture of grated cheddar and cottage cheese.

Place under a hot grill for 5 mins, until the edges of the tortillas start to brown and the cheesy mixture on the top is bubbling.

Creamy But Thin Garlic Mushrooms

Fry some mushrooms in a little butter, with about quarter of a clove of crushed garlic. You can omit the butter if you're trying to be 'thin' - mushrooms dry fry very well.

Toast both halves of a sandwich thin and spread with soft cream cheese.

Pour the mushrooms over the toast and ideally sprinkle with fresh chives.

I really enjoyed using both of these products. The sandwich thins are a great size and shape for a fussy toddler and they toast really well. The tortillas are slightly thicker than the normal sort, so they worked well in the vegetable stack recipe and didn't go soggy. I will definitely buy the sandwich thins again - they would be very versatile in our house. I did like the tortillas, but I like the way traditional ones fold, so I don't know how often I'd buy them. That said, I think they are much more versatile than round ones which makes using them up much easier.

I'll email photos for all my recipes tomorrow.

DS took one of the sandwich thins to school today as part of his lunch (he is 4 tomorrow) and ate the whole lot. They're just the right size for his lunch which is fantastic and must be tasty if he's happy to eat the whole thing even without me nagging him . I can definitely see us buying these in the future.

Ann, could you let me know which photos you've got? I sent about 4 lots but ahve only had 2 replies back so am worried the others have gone AWOL

Good evening from the babyheave household and day 1 of the Wrap stage of the trial - well thats how I'm thinking of it anyway.

First off, the packaging. After reading the other posts I was expecting trial by wrap packet, however; I must have got lucky as the wrapper opened first try by tearing across from the little nick on the side and the resealable bit was easy to use as well - piccy sent. Moving on, I thought they smelled really nice, were a good texture and passed all of the rolling and folding tests - I have to admit I expected them to break in half when I folded them in half, so kudos that they didn't.

Tonight is mexican night and I would normally use standard tortilla wraps to make the baked wraps below. Also my DS (4 years, fussy as anything) has a radar for any changes no matter how subtle, so there was a dual trial going on I can tell you.

Mexican Wraps

Fry off some extra lean mince with plenty of ground cumin and oregano. Sprinkle a stock cube on if you like it meaty. Drain off any fat. Put to one side.

Make some home made salsa (or cheat and buy some, but my homemade one is nicer).

1. Empty tin of chopped tomatoes into a bowl.
2. Add some chopped olives
3. Thinly slice and dice a red onion - chuck that in too.
4. Put in lots of chopped corriander.
5. Add a bit of lemon juice.
6. Add in a whole red chilli and a whole green chilli. (This is optional, but I would suggest you were a wuss if you didn't )

Put a wrap onto a baking tray.
Spoon the mince onto half of the wrap.
Put a couple of very thin slices of tomato and red onion on top of the mince.
Fold the wrap over.
Top with home made salsa
Top even more with grated cheese.

Damn. I forgot to say you should have pre-heated an oven to gas mark 6. Anyhoo - if you do that bake in the middle of the oven for 6 mins, turn around and then bake for another 6.

results
The best thing about these wraps is normally when I make this recipie, the wraps break apart when I move them from baking tray to plate,, meaning I serve up mexican mess. They didn't!! They stayed in once piece, which is an absolute first and looked as good on the plate as they did on the tray (piccies sent). They crisped up nicely too.

DS, noticed the change, but ate it anyway - phew. I did notice they were thicker and I do quite like the thin normal wraps, but the way they folded and didn't fall to pieces when I served up was just great.

Pros - Stayed in one piece when being served up.
Cons - Thicker so would need to get used to them.

I would probably buy them again for this recipie, although a lot does depend on the price folks!

can you ignore the fact that I misspelled recipe all the way through that last post

Blatherskite - I've had 6 emails from you - sorry not to reply but guess I must have them all thanks - am just processing them all (so far) today and tomorrow. Thanks

BTW Am liking the eurovision style introduction to the feedback !!

Day two of the wrap trial and it was all about whether it would do a better lunch than I normally would have when at work. This shouldn't have been hard as my lunches are usually utter, utter pants. So today I not only had lunch, but it wasn't eaten out of a cottage cheese pot in a rush. I was ever so prepared the night before and made these -

Lime Chicken and Mango Salsa Wraps

Lime chicken.
In a bowl, mix...
Juice and zest of 1/2 a lime (rest goes into salsa)
3 spoons of lime marmalade and 1 of white wine vinegar
salt and pepper
When mixed, add some diced chicken breast and cover.
Cook by spreading the chicken out on some tin foil and grilling on each side.

Mango Salsa

Peel and chop 1/2 a mango (Good luck with that. They are bloody awkward IMO)
Finely chop a red onion and add that.
Add the juice of 1/2 a lime
Add a couple of handfuls of chopped fresh coriander
Salt and pepper.

Spread on a wrap and roll.

The wraps rolled really well and hadn't gone soggy despite holding the salsa which is very moist. I liked that they were firmer than other wraps for lunch as they were much more filling. Only down side is that it was too awkward to fold the bottom over like you would a normal wrap which meant the filling did drop out of the bottom. It didn't matter too much as I was eating over a plate, but it could be annoying.

When the filling dropped out, it was easy to use the wrap to pick it up again, which makes me think they would be great to eat with curries instead of chapatti or naan.

I do like these wraps. They are surprisingly flexible for something so thick and I can think of many more uses for them. I would probably buy them again unless they were considerably more expensive than my normal brand, in which case I would use them for the mexican wraps but not sandwiches.

Spread a wrap with with chocolate spread, thin slices of banana and mini marshmallows. Put under the grill for a few mins and then cut into squares. Just did this for DS as a quick after school snack before he legged it out to play with his friends.

We didn't do anything super fancy with ours, they were yum though and we will definatly buy again.

The sandwich thins, we :

Toasted them in the toaster, buttered and had with crispy bacon and scrambled egg with brown sauce, this was really nice.

We halved them and put a scoop of beans on and sprinkled with cheese then grilled.

We made normal butties, ham salad. Funny thing is DD always picks the stuff off bread but she actually ate the sandwich thins so that was a result!

The squarish wraps:

This are great for fahitas, the kids found them alot easier to handle than the normal wraps, think its because they were thicker too.

We made pizza wraps for lunch, souds gross but we halved the wraps spread them with tom puree, cheese, ham, peppers, and peperoni for ds (h wont touch peperoniless pizza)

we then rolled them and held them in place with a toothpik and put in oven for 15 mins,

great finger food!

Really liked both the squares and the wraps in this household, very tasty and versatile. We thought the thins were best toasted and we topped them in the same way we would crackers for a quick snack. They were also great for a sweet treat.

Sweet berry thins

Lightly toast a couple of thins.
Spread with cream cheese, and scatter plenty of raspberries and chopped strawberries across.
Drizzle with a little maple syrup.

Delicious!

The squares seemed a little too large and thick for wraps, but they were great as an easy pizza or quesadillas.

Sausage quesadillas

Chop some spring onions, a little fresh chilli and a tomato. Grate a good sized portion of mexicana cheese and mix everything together.
Cook some sausages and slice in half.
Put the sliced sausages onto half of a square wrap, and cover with the cheese mixture.
Heat gently in a dry frying pan or grill until the cheese in melted and the wrap is golden brown.

Serve with some salad and salsa.

First of all, thank you for the voucher. It was nice to be able to buy steak ingredients lots and lots of steak

Baked Chicken Pesto Wrap

Roast some chopped chicken in the oven with some onion, peppers, garlic and tomatoes.
Spread wrap with pesto (I used red pepper pesto), add the chicken and vegetables.
Sprinkle with some cheese. I used cheddar, but mozzarella or a stronger cheese would be nice.
Fold the wrap up. If like me you were over-zealous with the filling, use cocktail sticks to keep it together.
Pop back in the oven for 5-10 minutes.

Was lovely and filling :) Photos on the way!

Philly Steak Wrap
Steak. Philadelphia. Onions and peppers. Enough said.

Cheesy Pesto Snack
Spread a wrap with pesto, sprinkle on grated cheese. Grill until cheese is bubbly, roll and scoff.

Haven't done anything particularly adventurous with the thins, although they are lovely. Absolutely love the wraps, they seem to have stayed quite fresh as well.

Well tonight was the last night of the square wrap test. We got home late so our plans to make keema curry to test out the naan like properties of the square wraps went out of the window and we settled on these spicy lamb kebabs instead.

Lamb Mince Kebabs
In a bowl, mix...
Lamb Mince
1 small onion
2 garlic cloves
Fresh mint
Garam Masala
dried red chilli - all to taste
lemon juice
Form into kebabs and grill.

Meanwhile make the raita by warming through some cumin seeds and mixing with natural yoghurt and mint sauce or fresh mint.

Warm the wraps and load with kebab, salad and raita.

DH turned his into a wrap, and ever the eloquent said they held together well and they tasted nice and since this was the last of the samples did it mean I'd stop questioning him every time he ate something and, by the way, was it absolutely necessary to run and find the camera every time I cooked?

I ignored him and took a photo of mine as well - I didn't wrap, but instead ate like an open kebab, tearing the wrap and using it to pick up the kebab. Considering that they were now a day past the sell by date, they were still fresh and foldable. Good job.

Anyway, despite DH's bewilderment, he liked the wraps a lot and said he'd buy them and since he usually does the shopping, you're in there, Warburtons.

Thank you and good night!