Day 11 Plastic Free Eating

I thought I'd get mum to share some recipes as she is doing lots of extra cooking

I don't know about you but we love wraps. We love fajitas, enchilladas, burritos, wraps with houmous and grated carrot for packed lunches, wraps to mop up leftover curry, wraps with sausages and ketchup for a picnic tea snuck into the cinema, wraps with banana and chocolate spread for an emergency breakfast...

Wraps, tortillas, flat breads, chapatis... They're cheap, quick and versatile. They also come wrapped in, you guessed it, PLASTIC (and they're usually filled with unnecessary additives, but that's for another challenge!)

Wraps are not only quick to fill, they're easy and quick to make:

INGREDIENTS:
* Some flour (plain is best for flour tortillas, wholemeal is good for chapatis, masa harina is difficult to get fresh but if you can, it'll make corn tortillas)
* Some water
* Natural Yoghurt (if you want chapatis) about 1tbsp per cup of flour.
* A pinch of salt
* Herbs / garlic powder / cinnamon / other flavours (optional)
* A little oil or butter or ghee

METHOD:
Put the dry ingredients into a bowl (1 cup of flour makes about 4 wraps) and add water (add yoghurt first if using) little by little mixing with your hands or a wooden spoon until it combines to form a soft dough.
Knead the dough on a floured surface until it is smooth and pliable. Split into balls that are about the size of a golf ball and roll them out on a well floured surface.
If there's two of you one call roll whilst the other cooks.
Heat a heavy-bottomed frying pan on a medium-high heat and lightly grease the pan.
Cook your wrap for a couple of minutes until it starts to inflate and changes colour, then turn it over and cook the other side - it will probably inflate completely but will go back to flat once off the heat.

Fill them with your favourite fillings and enjoy :)

If you're wondering how we have yoghurt (as it also comes in plastic pots), here's how...

INGREDIENTS:
* 2tbsp live yoghurt
* 3/4 pint full fat milk (you can use any milk but full fat is best... But don't be tempted to use alternative milks, in my experience you get very little yield

METHOD:
Boil the milk and then cool until tepid (body temperature)
Slowly whisk the milk into the yoghurt
Leave covered and somewhere warm (a thermos flask is ideal) for 8-12 hours
Refrigerate until you want to eat it 😋

Yummy with honey and cinnamon and fruit

We also found out that sainsburys is quite good at being plastic free in their fruit and some veg but all of their broccoli comes in plastic :(

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