Crabby Tortilla-Wrap With 3-Cheese Filling

Submitted by TOOLBELT DIVA

"Serve for brunch, lunch, a light dinner or anytime you get a hankering for CRAB. Easy to prepare; always a favourite with the kids, especially teens and their pals. You may wish to add additional Tabasco, or other hot sauce. The flavour of this mixture is mild - medium. All a matter of personal taste. Serve with a variety of melons to add coolness to the meal."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 20
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1 (10 count) package 10 inch whole wheat tortillas
• 1 (8 ounce) package crab or (8 ounce) package imitation crabmeat
• 1 cup ricotta cheese
• 1⁄4 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 1⁄8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (powdered)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce (your flavour preference)
• 1 bunch fresh cilantro, coarse chopped
• 0.5 (9 ounce) package fresh spinach, stems removed
• 2 fresh roma tomatoes, skinned and chopped (any size)
• 1 medium length fresh carrot, grated
• 1 green bell pepper, roasted
• 1 sweet red pepper, roasted
• 1 yellow sweet pepper, roasted
• 6 -8 pitted black olives, coarse-chopped
• 6 -8 pitted green olives, coarse-chopped
• 2 stalks celery, finely chopped
• 3 -4 fresh green onions, coarse chopped
• 2 -3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1⁄4 teaspoon sea salt
• 1 cup extra old cheddar cheese, shredded

directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Cut the tops off the green, red, and yellow peppers.
3. Place peppers on a shallow pan in the oven and roast until the skin begins to bubble and separates from the flesh- about 15 minutes.
4. Turn frequently to allow all sides to roast.
5. Remove from the oven and let cool.
6. Peel the peppers, make one slit in the peppers to open.
7. Remove and discard the seeds.
8. Coarse-chop the roasted peppers and set aside.
9. This is the only time you will use your oven.
10. CHEDDAR CHEESE: Shred cheese and set aside in a separate bowl.
11. RICOTTA CHEESE MIXTURE: Wash the spinach leaves well; remove and discard the stems from the spinach.
12. Do not dry spinach.
13. Place in a saucepan on the stove over medium heat.
14. There should be sufficient water left on the leaves, to cook the spinach until it wilts; additional water may be added if you feel it necessary.
15. Remove cooked spinach from pot and place in a colander over a bowl, to drain.
16. Squeeze any excess water from the spinach.
17. Chop the spinach finely.
18. Mix well with Ricotta Cheese, grated Parmesan cheese, and set aside.
19. CRAB MEAT MIXTURE: In a large skillet, heat, the olive oil over medium heat.
20. Saute crab meat, and chopped green onions. Remove from heat and set aside.
21. TOMATO MIXTURE: To the pan add: skinned and chopped Roma tomatoes; grated fresh carrot, black and green olives, celery, Tabasco, Cayenne and salt.
22. Mix well and cook, 5- 7 minutes; just long enough to heat the ingredients though.
23. Remove from heat and let it cool.
24. In a mixing bowl: Add Ricotta cheese mixture, crab meat mixture, tomato mixture; and fresh cilantro; turn over a few times to mix the ingredients.
25. Scoop onto tortillas, make tidy pockets by folding bottom up and then the two side inches.
26. Top with the shredded cheese.
27. Serve with beverage of your choice.

Reviews

[love4culinary]

These were realllllllly good, but I think next time i might leave out some of the olives. I, personally, would enjoy this recipe better w/out the olives. The flavors are excellent, and the addition of crabmeat to this is quite unique, but tasty!

 

[mary k.]

It sounds great and I'm in the process of making it now. However, there are no instructions about how to incorporate the roasted peppers. Should they be pureed and used as a sauce on top of the rolled tortillas? Or, incorporated in the tortilla filling? I'm going to puree them and use as a topping. It might keep the tortillas from being too dry.

 

[Kittencalrecipezazz]

Toolie, these were amazing! I made these for dinner tonight, and oh my God....DH and my son just devoured these in no time...I made them with store-bought roasted peppers in the jar, and prepackaged spinach, I did cheat and used imitation crab meat, so I skipped line 19, and just mixed packaged crab with green onions, I also left out the fresh cilantro, as I did not have any in my fridge... next time I will mabey try it with fresh crab meat, this is a nice change from chicken or beef tortillas...We just loved these, thanks so much Toolie for posting such a wonderful and very tasty recipe, I can't wait to make these again! Thanks KC :-)