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

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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.

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We started with the Square (ish) wraps;

The first one was spread with onion marmalade, topped with sliced mozzarella and finally roasted baby leeks, then baked in the oven at about 180 until the mozzarella melted, very yummy :)

The second was spread thinly with dijon mustard, topped with cheddar and slices of cherry tomato and chorizo, again baked in the oven until the cheese melted, the DC wolfed this one.

I did try French Toast with the wraps also, a mix of eggs, milk, caster sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg, cut the wraps into small squares and then shallow fried until golden, in butter. Again the DCs loved them but I found they were a bit chewy and prefer sliced bread for this.

Finally I used them for a very indulgent Bill Granger Chocolate Toast hybrid ;

3 eggs
185ml milk
1 tbsp caster sugar
Pinch of salt
1 tbsp unsalted butter
4 square ish wraps cut into quaters
100g dark chocolate, chopped

Whisk together the eggs, milk, caster sugar and salt in a flat dish. Heat the butter in a large frying pan over medium heat.

Dip four pieces of squarish wraps into the egg mixture, turning them over until they are completely coated. Put them in the frying pan and sprinkle each one with some of the chopped chocolate. Soak another two slices of bread in the egg mixture and put on top of the chocolate bread in the pan to make sandwiches. Press lightly with a spatula to seal the edges.

Cook for 3 minutes each side or until golden brown. Serve dusted with icing sugar.

With the Sandwich Thins I decided to use half for open sandwiches;

The first batch I toasted one side and spread with houmous, I topped them with sliced avocado, grilled red pepper, fried halloumi and a squeeze of lemon juice.

The second batch were again toasted on one side, spread with garlic cream cheese, topped with baby spinach leaves and proscuttio and drizzled with balsamic vinegar.

With the thins we made some bruschetta type things. We toasted them for a couple of minutes added chopped vine tomotoes, basil, garlic and a small amount of feta. Toasted for another couple of minutes then ate them, infact we all ate them and finished the pack one evening doing this.

With the wraps the children made their own pizzas. Spread with passast cover with mozzarella/chedder and herbs. They loved them :)

I also made mixed bean wraps with them. Spread with guacamole, mixed beans (ready to eat ones from from sainburys), rocket and feta. They were lovely.

On the whole both great products and I will buy them in the future :)

I absolutely LOVED both teh wraps and the thins.

With the wraps, I firstly spread pesto over one, then added grated cheddar/mozzerella mix and black olives. Grilled until cheese bubbled and served - we all LOVED.

Also, did same but with passata and no olives for my plain eating 11yo and she was v impressed.

The thins make PERFECT soldiers for boiled eggs, first of all. Were delicious served lightly toasted with scrambled eggs and I made a great sandwich with jalopeno hoummous, salad, tomatoes, cucumber and olives.

Delicious.

I liked the packaging, they kept fresh even after being open for a couple of days and I liked the fact that the thins came pre sliced.

Will DEFINITELY buy again.

MamaG!! I was thinking about you yesterday and wondering where you were as I haven't seen you for ages.

We used some of the thins in the Paninni maker.
Filled them with goats cheese and chives and goats cheese and tomato.
They were delicious - I will definitely be buying more.

We've just tried the thins and we all loved them, they went lovely and crispy under the grill and took no time at all. We did three recipes. Also loved the fact that they came pre sliced. The first one we did was

1-2 eggs beaten and seasoned
bacon grilled
maple syrup

dip the thin in beaten egg
fry the thin in a small amount of olive oil whilst grilling the bacon
arrange bacon on top of the thin and drizzle with maple syrup

second and third ones we made half with one topping and half with another.

2 hard boiled eggs
fresh chives (cut into small pieces)
salad cream
mayo
side salad of rocket and baby spinach

mix the hard boiled eggs with salad cream, mayo and season, add the chives and mix again.
Grill the thin lightly and butter.

Top with the egg mixture and surround with salad

Beans
cheese

basically lightly grill the thin, butter it and top with beans then grated cheese, return to grill until cheese has melted.

The beans and cheese one was a little better than the egg as there was more liquid and it made it taste nicer. Slightly dry as a product but very nice nonetheless.

Children, dh and myself all enjoyed them and would buy again.

Trying the wraps tomorrow. Photos will be emailed after.

Just popping back on to say we had pastrami / fresh tomato / olive pate / grated cheddar / basil pizzas with the thins today, and was impressed as they still seemed pretty fresh (think the pack was first opened on Tuesday, and they have been kept in the fridge since).

DD was impressed with the pizzas too, and even ate one with olive pate which I thought she would turn her nose up at because of the 'black bits'. But she didn't! So thumbs up all round.

Oops not thins, I meant wraps.

I've only done the thins so far, still but am hoping to play with the wraps tomorrow. Since we got the freebies through, we've bought 3 more packs of thins. I love them at work, just popped it the toaster with jam. Great for the diet as a substantial, but not overly calorific treat.

The wraps, my daugther is eating plain for lunch every day. She is a phobic eater, doesn't like trying new food, but she took to the wraps (or squaps as she calls them) straight away. Now, I've got a cupboard full of conventional wraps and she's sworn off them (apparently they're not delicious like the squaps!!)

We will be buying these lots. Sainsbury's were disappointing as they didn't stock them and when I asked for them, they looked at me like I'd asked for diamond studded panninis. Not great. Tescos on the other hand had loads in and on special offer too. £1 a pack for both the thins and the squaps.

Love the products. Wish I was more 'cooky' so I could impress people with my recipes, but I'll deal with my limitations :)

We really loved these wraps, they're so soft and definitely nicer than the normal wraps/other similar products on the market. Our 10 month old baby had a lot of fun dipping the squareish wraps in sauces and eating them, she definitely seemed to prefer them to other wraps she's had before.

We used the thins as paninis really, with tuna mayonnaise, cheese and gherkins; as a cheese and ham toastie and also as a cheese and tomato panini (a lot of cheese I know).

For the wraps my very lovely DH got all creative and made the following recipes:

Halloumi with Roast Vegetable and Humous Wraps
(Serves 4)

Ingredients:
250g halloumi cheese
1 red pepper de-seeded and chopped
1 yellow pepper de-seeded and chopped
1 courgette sliced
1 red onion sliced
Cherry tomatoes halved
Oregano (pinch)
Olive oil
1 Garlic clove with skin on
Seasoning
4 warburtons wraps
1 Tub of humous

Method:

1. Put the red and yellow peppers, courgette and red onion into a roasting tin. Drizzle with olive oil, throw in the garlic clove, then sprinkle with oregano and seasoning . Roast on gas mark 5 for 30 minutes on the middle shelf.
2. When the roast vegetables are cooked slice the halloumi into 1cm thick slices and fry for 2 minutes on either side or until golden brown. Make sure don't use any oil to fry the halloumi as it has plenty of its own so make sure the pan is piping hot!
3. When the cheese is cooked divide between your wraps and add the roast vegetables and humous.
4. Serve with some homemade tzatziki, salad and a cold beer!

Tandoori Chicken Wraps with Salad and Humous
(Serves 4)

Ingredients:
3 chicken breasts
4 warburtons wraps
Cherry tomatoes
Half a cucumber
A red onion
Cos lettuce
Tub of humous (we can never make it to taste as good as the shop bought stuff, no idea why)

For the marinade:
200ml natural yoghurt
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp ginger pulp
1 tsp garlic pulp
Pinch of chilli flakes
1/4 tsp tumeric
1 tsp coriander
Squeeze of lemon juice
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp sunflower oil

Method:

1. Mix together all the marinade ingredients. Then chop the chicken into bite-sized chunks and add to the marinade; cover and put in the fridge overnight.
2. When the chicken has marinaded shake off the excess marinade and grill for 10-15 minutes, turning occasionally.
3. Prepare the salad and gently warm the wraps.
4. When the chicken is cooked divide between the wraps, toss in the salad and add the humous.
5. Serve with tzatziki, homemade falafels and a cold beer! Eat straight away!

Tzatziki Recipe:

Ingredients:
200 ml Greek yoghurt
1 Cucumber finely chopped
Squeeze of lemon juice
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 tsp garlic pulp
1/2 tsp. salt
200ml sour cream
1 tsp chopped fresh dill
Method:

1. Combine the olive oil, vinegar, garlic and salt, and mix.

1. Whisk together the yogurt with the sour cream then add the olive oil mixture and mix well.

1. Add the chopped cucumber and chopped fresh dill.

1. Finally, chill for at least an hour before serving.

Falafels Recipe:

Ingredients:
400ml tin of chickpeas drained
1 onion finely chopped
1 heaped tbsp plain flour
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp ground coriander
Parsley finely chopped
1 clove of garlic finely chopped
Pinch of chilli flakes
Seasoning
1 Litre of Vegetable oil for frying

Method:

1. Add all ingredients apart from the oil into a large mixing bowl and mix well; grind with your fists to help mash up the chickpeas.
2. Shape the mixture into small falafel balls (approx 5cm in diameter)
3. Heat the vegetable oil until very hot and add the falafels and cook until golden brown.
4. When the falafels are cooked pad dry with some kitchen towel and serve immediately with some cool tzatziki.

Should have said in my post before, if you can't marinade the chicken for that long, don't worry, even 30 mins will be better than nothing.

Love the thins, have had to buy a couple more packets as they keep mysteriously disappearing from the kitchen. Wraps also good-- I like that they're a bit heavier than standard ones, so can support more stuff, hooray!

Stuffed olive sandwich

This is my attempt at recreating the huge deli meat-stuffed muffaletta sandwiches served in New Orleans:

Make olive salad: Drain thoroughly and then roughly chop 200g each of pimento-stuffed olives and mixed pickled vegetables. Add 2 crushed cloves of garlic, a pinch of chili pepper, 1/2 tsp oregano and four tablespoons of olive oil. Mix well and, if you can wait, refrigerate for 24 hours or so. To make sandwich, pour off a little of the oil and drizzle it on the sandwich thins, then on one half layer lettuce and two slices of thin-sliced ham, two slices of thin-sliced chicken or turkey, three or four slices of salami and one or two slices of thin-sliced swiss cheese. Top with a few tablespoons of the olive salad and the other half. Open mouth wide to enjoy.

Spicy chicken cigars

Like most things, except ice cubes and chewing gum, the squarish wraps taste even better fried. One chicken breast and one tin of refried beans make about four of these, with some beans left over.

Lightly brush a chicken breast with oil and sprinkle with 1 tsp cajun seasoning. Bake at 180 C for 25-30 minutes depending on size. Cool slightly and shred. Warm wraps one at a time for about 10 secs in the microwave. Spread with a thin layer of refried beans and sprinkle with grated cheddar. Arrange a couple of tablespoons of the chicken in a line along one of the long sides. Roll up tightly. Heat 1/2 cm vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the wraps on all sides until golden brown (about a minute a side), starting seam side down to seal. Serve with guacamole, salsa, sour cream or all three for dipping. The dcs loved a less spicy version of this.

Mexican club

Shredding and frying the chorizo makes a delicious crispy confetti. One chicken breast makes about three sandwiches.

Mix 1/4 tsp smoked paprika, 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper, 1/2 tsp oregano and 1/2 tsp cumin. Lightly brush a chicken breast with vegetable oil and sprinkle with spice mixture. Bake at 180 C for 25-30 minutes depending on size. Cool slightly and slice. For each sandwich, slice six slices of chorizo into thin matchstick-width shreds. Fry for a few minutes, ensuring you separate the shreds, until crispy. Drain on kitchen roll. Spread mayonnaise on each half of a sandwich thin and then layer chopped lettuce, chicken slices, sliced avocado, and top with the shredded chorizo.

Brie and mango melt

The sandwich thins and toaster bags love one another very very much. And I have pretty much consumed a whole brie tinkering around with this one.

Cover one half of a sandwich thin with slices of brie. Top with slices of mango and then sprinkle with some thinly sliced spring onions, chopped coriander and a small amount of finely chopped and deseeded green chili. Squash gently and toast in a toaster bag until cheese is melted. This combo also nice between two squarish wraps and griddled in a dry frying pan.

Well one last post from me. DH has just got back from doing the weekly shop and has returned with...

....Square Wraps!

Tadaaaaa!

He said they were only 10p more expensive than the usual brand and he thougt they were worth it as they were thicker and he'd liked them. He can err on the side of stingy, so this is praise indeed.

Great work girls. This thread is going to transform my children's packed lunches.

Last one for the thins:

Mushrooms fried in fry lite with 2 cloves of garlic chopped finely. Add a little milk once nearly cooked and browned and let it reduce. Add a teaspoon of flour (if not thickening) and another dash of milk then stir and allow to thicken again. Lightly grill the thin then add the mushroom mixture on top.
Serve with a mixed salad (cherry toms and mozzarella balls) and dressing of choice (balsamic and herb)

For the wraps we did the following:

Falafel, mixed salad leaves, m&s sweet chilli chutney, cheddar cheese grated, quartered cherry tomatoes rolled up and served.

We used the thins in place of toast at breakfast time - butter and marmite topped with a poached egg for me, just butter for DS1 and 2. All agreed that they made a good start to the day.

I tried a thin untoasted with ham, cheese and tomato for lunch and wasn't overly impressed - they taste a bit too processed (more so than sliced bread from the shops IMO).

Wraps - we loved them and I'll definitely be buying again.

Honey-mustard salmon wraps

3 tbsp Dijon mustard
2 tbsp runny honey
Juice 1/2 lemon
Ground black pepper

2 salmon fillets

Mix marinade ingredients together and pour over salmon in an oven proof dish. Bake in oven on 180 for 15 minutes or more if you've got big pieces of fish.

Allow to cool a little and gently break the fish into bite-size pieces. Spoon along one edge of the wrap, top with sliced tomato and another squeeze of lemon in you like! Roll up and eat with a green salad. I also had some Philadelphia cheese on my wrap which worked well with the salmon.

Pizza wrap

Similar to a lot of People, we made pizzas with the wraps.

Spread passata over wrap, add your toppings and top with grated cheese or mozzarella slices. We used a selection of sliced chorizo, black olives, blobs of pesto, anchovies, chicken tikka pieces, caramelised onions - all worked well.

Thanks for the thins and wraps, the notebook and the voucher - much appreciated

We used the wraps to make pizza - we have DS2 who is dairy intolerant and I've given up dairy for DS2 and I'm veggie anyway, so most meals have three variants.

Pizza
I put out bowls of:
ham
grated cheese
tomato puree
chopped tomatoes
chopped pepper
spinach
sweetcorn
mushrooms
and let everyone choose what they wanted / could have on the pizza. Cook in the oven until cheese melted / toppings hot. Worked really well, kids enjoyed making it. The wrap became a bit crispy on the vegan pizza but I drizzled some garlic olive oil on which helped.

The rest of the wraps are the in the freezer, but I'd definately use them again for pizzas.

We used the thins to make bruchetta one night:

rub thin with garlic clove, add chopped ripe tomatoes, finely chopped red onion and basil. drizzle with olive oil and grill. yum :)

I also used one of the thins for lunch at work with roasted vegetables (peppers, onion, courgettes and tomatoes) and I spread the bread with humous, which worked really well.

DH and DS1 used the rest of the thins for bacon rolls on saturday morning, and they seemed happy!

Whilst we enjoyed the thins and the wraps, I'm not sure that we'd buy them again because they contain soya flour. DS2 is milk intolerant, and like many children that makes him also sensitive to soya. He's reached the point where he can have one portion of a product containing soya each day, but any more makes his skin flare up and his stomach sore. I tend to save his soya for products where there is not a good non-soya dairy free option, such as soya yoghurts. We don't buy bread normally that contains soya (and it's easiest to buy or make bread that the whole family can have). Please Warburtons could you consider taking soya out of your bread range.

THINS
The thins were okay but I am greedy and was -starving afterwards rather small though I guess that's why they're called THIN.

Handy and superquick tuna mayo was a standby storecupboard
lunch.
Also tasty and warming toasted on the aga with good cheddar and Nice Ham
Once open though, went stale VERY quickly which was a shame.

Wraps
Don't normally buy anything like this but loved the fact that they were square and so easier to use.

Cheat's Tomato Tart
Spread a wrap with pesto, layer on sliced tomato.
Pop into an oven/under grill for 5-8 mins to warm tomatoes.
Add a sprig of basil if you have any ( I didn't ) et voila

One wrap with three toms would serve 2 with salad or one greedy person.

Banana window delight (My version of banana bread and butter pudding)

Ripe bananas
Some raisins
Warburtons squarish wraps
Carton of ambrosia custard

Mush the banana and spready evenly onto a wrap
Roll up and cut into slices
Arrange neat-ishly in a casserole dish
Scatter raisins over the top
Pour custard from carton over the edge in a square and in a cross shape to make a "window' shape so you can still see the swiss roll wrap effect
Bung in hot oven for 10 minutes
Yum

Wraps in my opinion better than squares, had breakfast wraps yesterday mine smoked salmon & scrammbled eggs delicious!

Apparently the banana and caramel sauce was equally delicious accoriding to my 12 yr DS I didn't try

and the top dollar goes to chocolate spread, squirty cream and jelly beans! as submitted by my 14 yr old dd

The packet on the wraps is a complete faff to open and reseal.

The thins were ok I probably wouldn't by them but i do like the square wraps and woudl buy them!

After a short delay crikeybadger has been selected at random as the winner of the £150 John Lewis voucher. Many thanks for all the recipes etc. Much appreciated.

AT RANDOM
what you didnt even look at the recipes?
we coudl have put dog food on one?

as it is i just bloody bought some more

i wont do so again

We made wrap sushi....but with creamcheese smoked salmon spinach and lemon juice, wrpped them up tight and sliced into sushi slices...YUMMO
we also did creamcheese, shredded chicken and dried apricots rolled up tight and sliced.

also we grilled the wraps and cut them up and made almost tortilla chips for dipping into homemade sweetpotato hummus and salsa.

Spread philli over the thins then add slices of smoked salmon and cucumber , roll and slice into bitesize pieces.

French Onion Soup (oo la la optional)

2 litres of beef stock (homemade, shop bought or OXO cubes to packet instructions)

3 thinly sliced/julienned onions (i prefer red)

1/2 clove of garlic (pressed) (optional)

1tsp of sugar

salt and pepper

100ml of white wine

50g of butter

30ml of virgin olive oil

Melt the butter into a roux, and add the oil. When this is fully melted add the onions, sugar, pressed garlic and salt and pepper. Turn throughout. Keep this on a very low heat for 20-30 minutes. Mix in the stock and the booze, and mix in well (you will need to scrape the caramelised bit off the bottom). Simmer for an hour

(Now for the warburtons role....)

100g of cheese of your choice per thin (Gruyere is the one often found in french restaurants)

Warburtons sandwich thins (one per bowl of soup)

Toast the sandwich thins lightly, add the cheese (make cheese on toast basically.....?) just before you serve the soup

and....

Stick it in the soup! (hot cheese facing up)

et voila!

My little boy who refuses to eat sandwiches loves these with anything in! I like with mozzarella and basil, the popped into a toastie bag and toasted mmmmmmmmmmm