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Egg Salad Pinwheels :: Perfect For Little Hands & An Easy Lunchbox Addition!

December 15, 2015

Simple and quick egg salad pinwheels perfect for little hands and easy lunchtime!

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“Gah! It’s 11:00 a.m. already?!”

I think I say that just about every day. I can aspire to have the most organized day, but there is absolutely nothing predictable about a morning with a 2 and 4 year old by my side, as well as getting a first grader off to school in the morning!

I rely on my freezer stash of simple soups like broccoli soup and tomato soup most days. It is a great way to get nourishing bone broth into the kids without having to think about what vegetable to make. Add a simple egg or tuna salad wrap and lunch is done…for my older kids.

Egg Salad Pinwheels :: Perfect For Little Hands & An Easy Lunchbox Addition!Wraps are tough for toddler hands!

I started making little Mexican pinwheel wraps for her when she turned 2 this year, and I noticed how easy they made lunchbox packing too, so they are becoming quite popular here with my older kids too!

Egg Salad Pinwheels :: Perfect For Little Hands & An Easy Lunchbox Addition!My first grader handles a wrap pretty good – but the days I have made it more of a pinwheel style she is quick to mention how much she loves her wraps that way and how much easier it is to eat too.

This is a pretty flexible recipe – if you have a favorite way of making egg salad go for it!

Egg Salad Pinwheels :: Perfect For Little Hands & An Easy Lunchbox Addition!

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Egg Salad Pinwheels

Simple and quick egg salad pinwheels perfect for little hands and easy lunchtime!
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time15 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Keyword: egg salad pinwheels, egg salad recipe
Servings: 4 servings
Author: Renee Kohley - www.raisinggenerationnourished.com

Ingredients

  • 6 pastured eggs hard boiled and peeled
  • 1/3 to 1/2 cup mayonnaise Homemade preferable to avoid rancid oils. This homemade, egg free mayo recipe blends up in less than 5 minutes! Super quick!
  • 2 tsp mustard
  • 5 stalks of green onion sliced
  • 1/4 red bell pepper diced
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • Sea salt and pepper to taste
  • 3-4 to rtillas of choice I like to use the Food For Life Rice Wraps and the Sami's Bakery Millet Lavish. They should be in the freezer section of most health food stores - sometimes our regular grocery store even carries the rice wraps.

Instructions

  • Put the hard boiled eggs in a small mixing bowl, and using the back of a fork smash the eggs into small pieces.
  • Add the rest of the ingredients except the tortillas and use the fork to combine well until smooth. Make sure to taste it for salt and pepper.
  • Spread some of the egg salad mixture onto the entire surface of one tortilla, roll up *tightly* and then cut into 1 inch sections. Continue with the rest of the egg salad onto the other tortillas - I usually get about 3 or 4 out of this amount of egg salad.
  • **Gluten Free tortilla rolling tip! Yes I will be the first to admit gluten free tortillas can be...dry! My solution to getting the perfect roll on a GF tortilla is to get it a bit wet and then warm them up to steam them - they get soft and pliable and then you can put your egg salad on and roll them right up. Just do one at a time and you'll be fine!

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14 Comments

  • Reply Emily @ Recipes to Nourish December 17, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    These are so fun! My mom used to make me pinwheel wraps like this when I was a kid. Love that you make them for your kiddos.

  • Reply Jessica December 17, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    oh nice! My boys would love these for something different. They are big egg salad fans.

  • Reply linda spiker January 21, 2016 at 11:00 am

    5 stars
    These looks so amazing! Forget the kids and the lunchbox, I want to eat them!

  • Reply Lindsey Dietz January 21, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    Now if only I could get my kids to like egg salad… These are great!

  • Reply Eileen January 21, 2016 at 12:23 pm

    What a fun idea! I love pinwheels, and egg salad is so yummy!

  • Reply Tina @ Oh Snap! Let's Eat! January 21, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    This looks so delicious! Totally going to make this for lunch some time!

  • Reply Megan Stevens January 21, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    Yum, I love mustard in egg salad. Love these bite-size savories! And so cute in the lunch box. Lucky girl!

  • Reply Elle @ Only Taste Matters January 21, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    So cute! What a fun lunch!

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