This Tex Mex vegan cheese crunch wrap is packed with smoky spices, black beans, sweetcorn, peppers, vegan cheese & fresh spinach, then toasted until the wrap is golden and crisp. It's quick to make, perfect for lunch boxes and a delicious way to turn lunch into something special.
If you're bored of sandwiches, this toasted vegan crunch wrap is guaranteed to perk up your lunchtime. Loaded with Tex Mex Flavours, easy to tweak and tastes good for lunch or dinner with this Corn Chopped Salad.
At-a-Glance - Tex Mex Vegan Cheese Crunch Wrap
⏲️ Ready in: 15 minutes
👪 Serves: 4
🍽 Calories: 309
🧾 Main ingredients: flour tortillas, red pepper, sweetcorn, spring onions, black, beans, spinach, paprika, vegan cheddar or smoked cheese
👩🏻🍳 Suitable for: Vegan, plant-based, dairy-free, egg-free, vegetarian
The flavours of Mexico in a tasty lunch wraps that will keep you full until dinner.
Summarise & save this recipe:
Jump to:
- At-a-Glance - Tex Mex Vegan Cheese Crunch Wrap
- ⭐ Why You'll Love These Wraps
- 💭 What is a Crunch Wrap?
- 💭 Why Toasting Makes it Better
- 💭 How to Keep Crunch Wraps Crispy
- 📋 What you Need to Make this Crunch Wrap
- 👩🏻🍳 A few Tweaks
- 👩🏻🍳 How to make Tex Mex Cheese Crunch Wraps
- 💭 Soft tortillas for wrapping
- 💭 Are Crunch Wraps good in Lunch Boxes?
- FAQs
- 🌯 More Vegan Lunch Wraps to Try Next
- ⭐ Sign up for a free recipe sent to your inbox every morning
- 📖 Recipe
- 💬 Comments
⭐ Why You'll Love These Wraps
- Ready in 15 minutes
- Crispy finish
- Packed with Tex Mex flavours
- Great hot or cold
- Perfect for Packed Lunches
- Easy to tweak with what you have
- Bean for fibre and protein
- A fun alternative to sandwiches
💭 What is a Crunch Wrap?
- It's a wrapped, filled tortilla that's toasted until crisp
- The outside becomes crunchy while the filling stays soft
- It combines the convenience of a wrap with the texture of a toasted sandwich
- Inspired my Tex Mex fast-food crunchwraps, but made with simple vegan ingredients
💭 Why Toasting Makes it Better
- Melts the cheese (for more ooze with vegan cheese, add a little mayo to the grated cheese)
- Adds crunch
- Makes the tortilla sturdier and easier to hold
- Stops the wrap from getting soggy, if you make it ahead
💭 How to Keep Crunch Wraps Crispy
- Throughly dry washed veg
- Don't overfill
- Add salsa sparingly
- Toast immediately after filling
- Cool slightly before wrapping for lunch.
📋 What you Need to Make this Crunch Wrap
This Tex Mex wrap is full of lots of fresh flavours and spice, nothing fancy.
The full ingredient list and method are in the recipe card.
- Vegan cheddar - smoked cheese is good too
- For cheese ooze - mix a little mayo into the grated cheddar, vegan cheese doesn't always melt well
- Guacamole - can be swapped with slices of avocado
👩🏻🍳 A few Tweaks
Here are a few tweaks you can make:
- Add some cumin for warmth and chilli powder for heat
- Use kale instead of spinach
- Use kidney beans instead of black beans
- Vegan sour cream is good instead of mayo
👩🏻🍳 How to make Tex Mex Cheese Crunch Wraps
These step-by-step photos will show you how easy these are to make.
The full recipe card is below.
- Step 1: Add grated cheese, chopped red pepper and chopped spring onion to a mixing bowl.
- Step 2: Next, add the drained beans, the mayo or sour cream, paprika, and salt and pepper.
- Step 3: Mix it all together well.
- Step 4: Spread mayo on a flour tortilla, top with spinach leaves, and then pile on some of the bean mix.
- Step 5: Top with dollops of salsa and guacamole, then fold into a burrito.
- Step 6: Bake in the oven or air fryer or grill (broil) until the wrp is golden & crisp, half and serve.
Jac's Top Tip
💭 Soft tortillas for wrapping
If you microwave your tortillas a few seconds before wrapping them it will warm and soften then making them more pliable and easier to wrap. A dry tortilla will tear when you wrap it.
💭 Are Crunch Wraps good in Lunch Boxes?
- They stay delicious after they cool
- The tortilla softens slightly but still has a great texture
- Once cool wrap it tightly
- Pair in lunch boxes with fruit or salad and a few tortilla chips (try these Homemade Paprika Tortilla Chips
FAQs
If it's falling apart, it either has too much filling or is not wrapped tightly enough.
It might be that the pan is not hot enough, there is too much filling or you haven't toasted both sides.
Yes, assemble them, pop in the fridge and toast/ grill them when you are ready.
Absolutely, air-fry until crisp. You may have to turn them.
You could serve it with extra salsa or guacamole, salad, corn on the cob and potato wedges or sweet potato fries.
🌯 More Vegan Lunch Wraps to Try Next
⭐ Sign up for a free recipe sent to your inbox every morning
Join my list and have one recipe emailed to you every morning for inspiration.
Also, make sure you are signed up for my new recipe email, so you don't miss any new recipes here at the lunchbox.
📖 Recipe
Tex Mex Cheese Crunch Wrap
Ingredients
- 120 g vegan cheddar grated
- ½ red pepper finely diced
- 2 spring onions sliced
- 2 tablespoon sweetcorn
- 2 tablespoon black beans
- 2-3 tablespoon vegan sour cream or vegan creme fraiche or plain yoghurt
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- pinch salt and pepper
- 4 large flour tortillas
- 4 tablespoon vegan sour cream or mayo
- 4 handfuls fresh spinach
- 2 tablespoon salsa optional
- 2 tablespoon guacamole optional
Instructions
- Add the sandwich filler ingredients to a mixing bowl and mix well.
- This filling can be added to sandwiches or wraps.
- Place your first tortilla on a plate or chopping board and spread with sour cream or mayo.
- Add a layer of fresh spinach near the top of the tortilla, leaving a border clear.
- Top with some of the sandwich filler.
- Add small dollops of salsa and guacamole (optional) and wrap.
- Toast each side of the filled wrap in a hot pan, panini machine or under the grill.
- Cut in half and serve or wrap up for later.
- Repeat for your other wraps.
- Enjoy!
Biana says
Yum! This wrap looks perfect for lunch, love all the flavorful ingredients in the filling.
Jacqueline Meldrum says
Thanks and yes it was super tasty.
Kechi says
Such a great post, I love LOVE your graphic on how to wrap a tortilla. So, useful, and I will be using it! This recipe calling my name!🤣🤣
Jacqueline Meldrum says
Once you get the hang of it, it's so easy to do. I am glad the graphic helped.