Buffalo Chicken Wraps
Foil-packet chicken, hot sauce, and crunch, rolled into a tortilla with no stove involved.
- calories
- 520
- weight
- 7 oz
- cal / oz
- 74
- protein
- 34 g
- serves
- 1, scales
- prep
- 5 min
- cook
- 0 min
- total time
- 5 min
- water
- none
- cost
- $$
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Lunch
- Dinner
- No cook
- Backpacking
- Day hike
- Bikepacking
- Canoe / raft
- Nut free
- Eat in the bag
- Grab and go
- Shelf stable
- Dump and stir
Ingredients
| Foil-packet chicken | 2 packets, 5 oz each | pouches, not cans, so there is no water to drain |
|---|---|---|
| Buffalo wing sauce | 3 tbsp | carried in a small leakproof bottle |
| Flour tortillas | 4 small | the burrito-size ones tear less |
| Freeze-dried celery and carrot | 1/4 cup | crushed slightly so it packs flat |
| Dried minced onion | 1 tsp | |
| Powdered ranch or blue cheese dressing mix | 1 tbsp | dry, stirred in for tang without a cooler |
| Olive oil | 1 tbsp |
Method
- Open both chicken packets into a freezer bag. Break up the larger chunks with your spoon.
- Add the wing sauce, dressing powder, dried onion, and oil. Seal the bag and work it with your hands until the chicken is coated.
- Let it sit five minutes. The dried vegetables and onion pull moisture out of the sauce and soften.
- Spoon into the tortillas, fold the bottom up, roll, and eat over the bag.
The original is a slow cooker recipe built on raw chicken breast, fresh celery and carrot, and lettuce leaves. None of that travels. Pouch chicken is already cooked and already shredded, which removes the only real work in the dish, and freeze-dried celery and carrot give the same snap without anything that wilts by noon on day two.
Dressing powder does the job the blue cheese did at home. It is acidic and salty enough to cut the vinegar in the wing sauce, and it stays dry until it hits the chicken. Letting the bag rest a few minutes matters more than it sounds: the dried vegetables need that time to rehydrate on sauce alone, and the sauce thickens as they do, so the wrap holds together instead of running out the bottom.
Packing
Chicken pouches, tortillas, and the vegetable bag ride separately; the sauce goes in a bottle inside a spare bag. Tortillas keep their shape stacked flat against the back panel of the pack.
Variations
- Swap the tortillas for corn tostadas or a bag of chips and eat it as a scoop.
- A packet of instant potatoes turns the leftover sauced chicken into a hot dinner if you have a stove.
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