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Fairest Wheels (Chicken Pinwheels)
photo by Bobtail
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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24 little snack slices
ingredients
- 1 cup finely chopped cooked chicken
- 1⁄2 cup chopped lettuce
- 1⁄2 cup shredded reduced-fat sharp cheddar cheese
- 1⁄3 cup chopped green onion
- 1⁄3 cup minced red bell pepper
- 4 ounces light cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoons low-fat sour cream
- 1 tablespoon hot red pepper jelly
- 3 (9 inch) flour tortillas
directions
- In medium bowl, combine chicken, lettuce, cheddar cheese, green onions and red pepper.
- Set aside.
- In small bowl, beat together cream cheese, sour cream, and red pepper jelly on low speed of electric mixer.
- Spread 1/3 cream cheese mixture over one side of tortilla.
- Sprinkle with 1/3 chicken mixture, leaving 1/2 inch border at top just covered with cream cheese mixture (so you can seal it closed.) Roll up tightly, jelly roll style.
- Wrap tortilla roll in plastic wrap.
- Repeat with remaining tortillas and filling.
- Refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Trim off the ends and cut each roll into 8 slices, serve cold.
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Reviews
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These are so, so good! I've made other "pinwheels", but these are our favorites thus far. The red pepper jelly is a MUST. And I did add a little extra per some of the other reviews -- I might even "pump" it up a little more the next time. I wished I could "master" the technique of wrapping the pinwheels tighter! I thought I had them really tight, but when I cut them, they weren't as tight as I had wanted. But they held their shape ok -- so I guess I shouldn't complain. All do NOT omit the lettuce, it's really important. One thing that I will be sure and change the next time is to at least DOUBLE THE RECIPE!!!! You sure can't eat just one pinwheel. (And I placed the chicken in my small food processor and chopped it that way -- it was the perfect consistency). Thanks for sharing your recipe.
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I made these last night and ate one as a wrap. Delicious! I had a little bit of the veggie/chicken filling left, but I'm going to use it in soft tacos. I love pepper jelly on top of a block of cream cheese with crackers, so I knew I would like this. I don't give five stars unless a recipe makes me go, "MMM-MMM" as I'm eating it. The whole time I was eating these, that's exactly what I did. I can't wait to have another for lunch today. Thank you for the recipe!
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These were delicious!! I did tweak the recipe a little bit. I had turkey on hand, so I used that. I also added 3 crispy slices of bacon chopped up. I used both wraps and tortilla. I wanted to see which was better. Both were really good. The tortilla was a little easier to form into a nice tight roll hugging the ingredients. Great recipe. Thank you SO much. :o) Quite a few people asked what they had in them.
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Tweaks
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Oh my goodness were these good! I made them the day before I wanted to serve them and wrapped the rolls tightly in saran wrap. I think it helped blend the flavors and made cutting the pinwheels very easy. My little wheels held together really well. I did made one slight change - I used roasted red peppers instead of raw red bell peppers because that is what I had on hand - they were really good and I will be making these again.
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I actually made this twice. The first time was a trial as it was for a big boss farewell party and I wanted to make sure it was good. I left out the red pepper jelly as I couldn't find any, used honey mustard instead of sour cream and couldn't find 9 inch tortillas so used 7 inch ones and used ready-shredded cheddar and mozeralla cheese. As the tortillas were smaller, I got 4 rolls. My colleagues tried it and said it was too rich. So I used Japanese Mayo instead of cream cheese for the actual party. It was all gone!!! It has also inspired a couple of my colleagues to use tortillas in their meal planning. :-)
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I made these using regular (not reduced fat) ingredients and they were wonderful. I did add an extra tablespoon of hot pepper jelly and substituted baby spinach leaves for the lettuce. I took two sliced rolls to a party and they disappeared in minutes. The third roll I shared with my daughter. I'll be making this a lot, both for appetizers and for a lunch wrap. Great recipe!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Rhonda J
Canada
About me....well...let's see,right now I am a married, stay-at-home Mom to two beautiful children, a 10 year old daughter and a 7 year old son....they are the "lights" of my life, which I think I pretty much spent waiting for them! I feel so very lucky (and truly blessed) to be their "Mommy".
I don't know that I have a fave cookbook, (and I have rarely opened one of the many I have, since finding Zaar.) I just LOVE recipes and have been "acquiring" them since I was a teenager! Actually I think I bought my first cookbook in like grade two or three, a cookie recipe book from one of those scholastic book orders!