Turkish wraps

Turkish wraps

Explore Turkish cuisine with our Turkish wrap recipe. These delightful flatbreads are filled with a myriad of flavours and textures, making for a flavourful, interesting, and irresistible wrap. Make the wraps with a white bean salad filling accompanied by a creamy and pungent crème fraiche and mint dressing with fresh mint leaves and chopped chives. It is a simple and tasty recipe you can make in record time, giving you an easy and quick dinner or lunch.
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Instructions

  • Mash the salad cheese finely with a fork. Mix cheese, fraiche, mint, and chives. Place the mint dressing, covered, in the fridge for at least 15 minutes – season to taste.
  • Rinse the white beans and let them drain in a sieve. Carefully toss the beans together with avocado, tomato, cucumber, chives, lime juice, and salt.
  • Grill the 4 flatbreads at the top of the oven for about 10 seconds until they become soft. Toss the iceberg lettuce with the bean filling and spread it on the flatbreads. Put some mint dressing on top and serve the rest on the side – tie a string around the flatbreads if necessary. Eat your Turkish wrap immediately!
Enjoy!

Tips

It is not necessary to grill the bread though it does make them soft and easier to work with. Tie your Turkish wrap with a string or wrap it with foil to keep the filling inside and to not make a mess when eating the wrap.

Tips

Unsure how to pick the right avocados for the white bean salad? Observe the colour of the avocado. Ripe avocados have dark green or nearly black skin with a bumpy texture that yields under gentle pressure without leaving any indentations in the skin.

Questions about Turkish wraps

If you want to explore Turkish cuisine, this quick and simple Turkish wrap recipe is the perfect way to start. All you need is a few fresh ingredients and some flatbreads. We have answered some of the most frequently asked questions about this dish with its white bean salad and mint dressing. Read below to learn more!

What is a Turkish wrap?

A Turkish wrap can mean many different things depending on what you like and from what region in Turkey you want the flavours. It is typically a sort of flatbread rolled with a filling made with different cheese, dressings, herbs, and much more. Our Turkish wrap recipe is made with a bean salad rolled in soft grilled flatbread. For the crowning touch, the bean salad is drizzled with tangy mint-flavoured dressing.

How to make a Turkish wrap?

Mix the ingredients for the mint dressing and the white bean salad, then grill the flatbreads for a few seconds until they become soft. Spread the bean salad on the flatbread and add some of the mint dressing on top. You can tie a string around the Turkish wrap to ensure the filling stays inside. Serve the remaining mint dressing on the side and dig right in.

How to make a Turkish white bean salad?

This salad requires fresh and simple ingredients and is prepared in a matter of minutes. Start by rinsing the white beans before tossing them with diced avocado, cumber, chopped chives, salt, and freshly squeezed lime juice and then add the iceberg salad. So, there you have it – a super easy and delicious white bean salad that works great as a main dish or topping for other wonderful dishes.

How to make mint dressing?

Make a quick and simple crème fraiche and mint dressing for the Turkish wraps with only a few ingredients. Prepare the dressing by mixing salad cheese, fraiche, chopped chives, and mint leaves. Cover the dressing and allow it to cool in the fridge for at least 15 minutes. You can season the dressing to your liking by adding more mint leaves, chives, or a bit of salt and pepper.

What fillings to use in a Turkish wrap?

The combination of white bean salad and mint dressing wrapped in warm flatbread makes for a light yet filling lunch or dinner. The fillings are alfa and omega for achieving the perfect wrap, and you need to get both flavours and textures right. The best combination of wrap fillings includes fresh vegetables for crunch, zesty lime juice, seasonings, fresh herbs, and soft and creamy dressing. Chives, mint, lemon juice, avocado, beans, salad cheese, and the like are perfect for making a Turkish wrap filling.

Nutritional values

Nutritional value, per

2474 Kcal

Fibre 60 gram fibers
Protein 92.3
Carbohydrates 295.6
Fat 101.5 gram

Ingredients

Mint dressing
White cheese cubes in brine 3%
100 g
Sour cream, 5%
250 ml
Chopped fresh mint leaves
3 tbsp
Finely chopped chives
2 tbsp
White bean salad
White beans, for example, cannellini beans
1 can
Small, diced avocados (approx. 200 g)
2
Small diced plum tomatoes
300 g
Slim cucumber cut into small cubes (approx. 250 g)
1
Finely chopped chives
100 ml
Freshly squeezed lime juice
2 tsp
Coarse salt
¾ tsp
Flatbread
4
Of iceberg lettuce torn into fine pieces
1 litre
Garnish
Finely chopped mint
Chopped chives

Turkish wrap with delicious fillings

Indulge in a deliciously filled Turkish wrap with fresh vegetables and herbs. You will love the Mediterranean white bean salad topped with a tangy mint dressing and rolled in a warm, soft flatbread. Enjoy the bright mixture of flavours and colours.

In need of more inspiration for some exotic and flavourful recipes? Check out our recipe for samosas with mint raita served with a crème fraiche dressing dip, the perfect snack between meals. Or try your hand at freshly baked pita bread or a leavened naan with a zesty tang or butter and garlic spread, a classic and popular Indian bread.

Turkish white bean salad

Do not let these humble beans fool you! This Turkish white bean salad makes a star out of white beans by adding just a few well-picked ingredients. Plum tomatoes, ripe avocados and cucumber add both texture and flavour, while the lime juice and the chopped chives give the beans a fresh kick. Our white bean salad recipe makes for a great main dish or accompaniment to other equally delicious meals.

Mint dressing

Our delectable crème fraiche and mint dressing recipe with salad cheese, mint, and chives elevates your Turkish white bean salad. Thanks to the fraiche and cheese, the dressing has a tangy, punchy taste, only made better with fresh herbs. The mint adds a subtly sweet taste to the dressing with just a touch of bitterness and leaves a lingering cool sensation on your tongue with each bite. Our crème fraiche and mint dressing is exceptionally versatile, so you can easily use it as a dip for your snacks.

Roll in a soft flatbread

The white bean salad with tomatoes is rolled in a grilled flatbread, giving the bread a soft texture ideal for rolling your Turkish wrap. Though store-bought flatbread is perfectly fine to use, you can easily go with the do-it-yourself version with our flatbread recipe that you simply bake in a pan. Bring the wraps with you for lunch, on the go, or serve them for dinner with your friends. It is a simple and easy dish with rich flavours that you can prepare quickly and effortlessly.

Experiment with your Turkish wrap filling

The white bean salad pairs nicely with many Mediterranean flavours. Bright flavours like lemon, cumin, garlic and especially parsley are used generously in many Turkish salad recipes. They give the salad a fresh taste with a pungent, almost spicy aroma from the garlic. You can also swap out the avocados with red onions, as they add so much flavour and a slight crunch to the salad. Slice them thinly and toss them with the other ingredients. If you want the dressing for the white bean salad to have an acidic lemony taste, try adding sumac. The deep red spice tastes somewhat like fresh lemon juice but has a tart and sharp aroma with a hint of sweetness that pairs wonderfully with the mint.