BBQ or Buffalo Cauliflower Wraps

BBQ or Buffalo cauliflower wraps are flavorful, filling, and packed with plant-based goodness. These easy veggie wraps are a quick, hearty lunch or dinner that’s perfect for clearing out the crisper drawer. Plus, they’re a child-approved vegan lunch box recipe!

The Ingredients for Veggie Wraps

This vegan wrap recipe requires just 5 base ingredients (11 if you’re making the cauliflower wings from scratch). And even those are highly versatile!

The Base Recipe:

• Cauliflower: You can use a batch of BBQ cauliflower bites OR buffalo cauliflower.
• Lettuce: I used romaine lettuce, but this is easy to swap out with other mixed salad greens, arugula, spinach, kale, etc.
• Tomatoes: You can use larger tomatoes and thinly slice or dice them, or use cherry tomatoes and halve or quarter them. Omit if preferred, or swap with another veggie.
• Tortillas: Use large tortillas. Feel free to use spinach or beet wraps. Use gluten-free wraps if necessary.

You could also use a thin flatbread for the salad wraps, especially if you plan to consume them immediately.

• BBQ sauce: To spread over the bottom of each vegan wrap. Vegan ranch dressing, tzatziki, or vegan sour cream would also pair well with either the BBQ or Buffalo cauliflower.

What Else Could You Add? Ideas for Veggie Wraps

Luckily, both BBQ cauliflower wings and buffalo cauliflower pair well with many spreads, dips, veggies, and more. Meaning there are tons of ways to boost these cauliflower salad wraps.

To Spread/Drizzle:

• Vegan cream cheese
• Hummus and veggie wraps (is there anything hummus doesn’t go with?!)
• White bean dip
• Vegan blue cheese and vegan yogurt sauce
• Vegan sour cream

Extra Salad Wrap fillings:

• Cucumber
• Avocado (slices or as avocado cream)
• Coleslaw (in the wrap or as a side)
• Spinach or other leafy greens
• Breaded tofu sticks brushed with BBQ or buffalo sauce
• Matchstick/shredded carrot
• Shredded red cabbage
• Red onion
• Pineapple
• Bell peppers (raw or roasted)
• Corn
• Chickpeas (tossed with the sauce and roasted)

You could make a warm grilled/pressed wrap by swapping out the lettuce for spinach and adding some vegan melty cheese and either rice or quinoa to the vegan wraps.

Make these BBQ/ Buffalo cauliflower wraps low carb by swapping out the tortillas in place of veggie wraps like spinach or beet wraps.

How to Make BBQ/ Buffalo Cauliflower Wraps?

• First, prepare the BBQ cauliflower wings (or buffalo cauliflower) if you haven’t already.

If you’re making them specifically with this recipe in mind, I highly recommend using smaller florets so that you can stuff more into the veggie wraps.

You can use whole leaves in the wraps or shred them to create more body in the veggie wraps.

If you want to make more of a burrito wrap for a vegan lunch box, first fold in both bottom ends before the sides. Next, wrap it in foil or parchment paper, then slice it in half in the middle. The foil/ parchment with help hold the vegan wraps together if you aren’t eating them immediately.

Toni’s Recipe Tips for Buffalo Cauliflower Veggie Wraps

• Don’t overstuff the wrap: Otherwise, you risk tortilla breakage.
• Turn it into a salad bowl: Assemble all the filling ingredients and serve with tortilla or pita chips. For a heartier meal, add a grain (like brown rice or quinoa), too.
• Adjust to your dietary requirements: Use gluten-free wraps, sugar-free BBQ sauce, etc.

Serving Suggestions for Buffalo Cauliflower Wraps

Enjoy the vegan cauliflower wrap alone or bump up the meal further with some of the following ideas.

• Fries: Like garlic wedges or be creative with baked carrot fries/chips or zucchini fries.
• Salad: From a green salad like this peach salad or rainbow salad, to a heartier quinoa salad, mixed bean salad, or spinach pasta salad.
• Fruit: Kids, especially, would love a BBQ cauliflower wrap with a Mexican fruit salad, ginger fruit smoothie, baked apple chips, or some simple sliced or diced fruit.
• Veggies: Serve some simple but satisfying sliced veggies/crudites with a dip like cold bean dip, vegan French onion dip, vegan Caesar or ranch dressing, or hummus.
• Soup: Serve with a favorite soup, whether a minestrone soup, black bean soup, or – for the kids! – alphabet soup!
• Chips & Dip: Make some easy air fryer tortilla chips to enjoy with bean dip, guacamole, mango cucumber salsa, or a more traditional 5-minute salsa.

How to Make Ahead and Store?

You can prepare the cauliflower wings 2-3 days in advance (fresh is best for the crispiest results) and store in the fridge. You could also rinse and slice the veggies in advance and store them separately in airtight containers until you’re ready to assemble the salad wraps.

Once assembled, I recommend eating the wrap within a day so it doesn’t become soggy.

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Photos by Alfonso Revilla