A delicious Peri Peri Rice and Chicken Wrap you can make with ingredients you probably already have on hand. Your lunch just got very exciting!
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For a long time, lunch was my forgotten meal. I would start the day with a good breakfast and finish with a great dinner, but for lunch I would just grab whatever was available.
What I really needed was a few tasty and nutritious options up my sleeve. Lunch recipes I could prepare in advance or when I’m in a hurry.
Here is when this fabulous Peri Peri Rice and Chicken Wrap makes an entrance and a pretty spectacular one at that!
The savoury flavours of chicken mash perfectly with acidic and spicy piri piri. When wrapped up with fresh vegetables and tasty yoghurt sauce, you have lunch sorted!
It’s good stuff and the Peri Peri rice and chicken wrap I’m sharing today is better than good. It’s fantastic! And other than the simple flavoured rice, there is no cooking involved, just assembling.
What you need for this delicious wrap are the things you probably already have on hand. Peri peri rice, roast chicken, store-bought or your own, cherry tomatoes, avocado, feta cheese, parsley.
And the best thing is spicy and garlicky yogurt sauce, that brings everything together in a tortilla wrap. I can’t get enough!
Peri Peri Rice
Peri peri sauce and flavours are a staple here in the UK thanks to the success of a restaurant chain called Nando’s. But the flavour actually comes from the Portuguese, using peppers they found in Africa.
Peri-peri chili peppers are the key, along with garlic. But after this there is a lot of variation in how the peri peri sauce can be made. Each family recipe has their own twist.
Peri-peri peppers are likely going to be hard to find outside of a few specific areas. Fortunately you can use several other peppers as substitutes, including jalapeño, cayenne or habanero peppers.
Recipe tips and tricks
- The vegetable toppings used in this wrap were based on my preference and what was available. The flavours in the wrap will combine with many other vegetables, so it is worth experimenting. Lettuce, red pepper and thinly sliced red onion will also go well.
- Feta can be replaced with fresh mozzarella or shredded cheddar cheese.
- You can use pre-made Peri Peri rice or cook your own, which is very quick and more delicious. Here is my Peri Peri rice recipe.
More lunch recipes:
- Maple BLT Sandwich with Smoky Chipotle Sauce
- Classic Croque Monsieur
- Salmon Chowder
- Thai Grilled Chicken Salad
Peri Peri Rice and Chicken Wrap
Ingredients
- 300g/1 ½ cups homemade Peri Peri rice or Veetee Peri Peri rice
- 150g/1 cup cooked chicken
- 1 avocado
- 6-8 cherry tomatoes
- 2-3 parsley sprigs
- 50g/4 tbsp feta cheese crumbled or any other cheese
- 4 wraps large
For the spicy yogurt sauce
- 250ml/1 cups plain yogurt
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 1 tsp hot paprika
- ½ tsp cayenne pepper
- ¼ tsp chilli flakes
- 3 tbsp parsley chopped
- 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- To the plain yogurt add minced garlic, hot paprika, cayenne pepper, chilli flakes and chopped parsley and mix with a fork.
- Lay out the wraps on a work surface and top them with the rice, chicken, tomatoes, avocado, parsley and feta equally divided among 4 wraps.
- Roll them up tightly like an envelope.
Lottie L'Amour says
These look delicious! It’s like a twist on the burrito but with totally different flavours. I’m going to have to give this one a go at home 🙂
Lottie xx
Becca says
What a brilliant idea! I love the Veetee rice trays, they’re so convenient (I love not having to dirty a pan, haha). Love the sound of the spicy yogurt sauce too!
Hannah Hossack-Lodge says
These look so fresh and vibrant! And the photos are stunning, they really pop 🙂 I’ve never actually tried microwave rice but I am all for quick and easy meals so I really should give it a go x
vikalinka says
Thanks, Hannah! That was my first time trying microwave rice and I didn’t expect much but I was so pleasantly surprised by the flavour and the texture!! xx
Laura says
These wraps look so good, I’m all for a colorful and delicious lunch that’s easy too!
vikalinka says
Thanks, Laura!! 🙂
Lucy Parissi says
This looks delicious and so quick. I have the rice and the wraps – may just make this at work tomorrow! The photos are completely stunning – they fairly jump out of the computer screen. Must be the new camera?
vikalinka says
Hahaha definitely the camera ;-). Thank you, Lucy! I put all of my favourite things in this wrap, so it’s no wonder I loved it but it could be easily customisable!