Eat your greens!

Haven’t we been bombarded with this phrase from all sides of our existence? Our mothers would not let us leave the table before we did.. eat our greens. Every doctor on earth has this engraved in some corner of their daily prescription archives. Salads being the main way to achieve the ultimate access to anything leafy. I love salads, don’t get me wrong. Nothing like a refreshing crunchy bowl of veggies with a tangy dressing. But salads all the time? Gimme something I can actually bite into!

Enter… green.

Wraps with the greens inside! What a concept!

This recipe checks all the lists under that looming Healthy food header of your daily menus. Oats themselves are considered one of those superfoods everyone is talking about these days. Add a good bunch of spinach to them, and bang! Superfood bonanza! And the flavor!

These wraps will welcome any type of filling, even more greens! This time I filled them with yogurt masala marinated turkey breast. Lean and oh so tender!

I have been toying with Oat Tortillas for a while now. We love tortillas and all you can do with them. Having found this perfect and healthier way to enjoy tacos and wraps has been a plus for our daily meals. Our latino roots are thriving now, especially living in a country where you cannot find corn masa to make the original tortillas. And even if we could find it, oat tortillas would be our daily go to recipe.

Now back to spinach goodness (Popeye would be so proud). I can’t think of better greens to add to an already powerful punch of nutrition like oats. Spinach can lower blood pressure, maintain blood sugar levels in check, and strengthen the eyes. Plus it’s a good source of iron, fiber, calcium, vitamin A, among other vitamins and minerals.

To make the dough, following my Oat Tortillas recipe, you will need to swap the water indicated for spinach broth. The good thing about spinach is that once it is processed in the water, you will not be straining it. Even if you are left with bits of spinach in the broth, it will not deter from achieving a perfect dough.

You will need to cook the spinach only until they start to wilt. If you cook spinach too long they will lose their bright green color. And lively green is what we need for the cuteness of these wraps. So as soon as they wilt in the boiling water, turn of the heat and process the greens with an immersion blender. Make sure the broth is boiling hot when you add it to the oat flour.