Roasted Vegetable, Chicken and Goat Cheese Wrap

Summer is for grilling. Better when it’s not 90 degrees outside, but man and fire have a certain relationship that even gross dripping humidity can’t stop. A certain special guy invited me over to his parents home while he was house-sitting last night. Big perk besides an entire house to yourselves, a gas BBQ! I guess I was craving grilled veggies at the time because when he asked me what I wanted to make I immediately suggested grilled wraps, with goat cheese. There is something about those grill marks on a wrap that just make it so much more delicious and appealing. These were fairly easy, minimal clean up and could be made vegetarian by switching in sliced grilled eggplant for chicken.

His dad was even kind enough to leave chicken breasts for us to grill as well, which he marinated in a bbq sauce. Really good. I traded him some sweet italian sausage. We grilled the vegetables and cooked the chicken first, then assembled and returned our overstuffed wraps to the hot grill for the all important horizontal branding marks. Having a BBQ for something like this is amazing  but i think you could execute a similarly successful meal on a grill pan, which my lovely brother got me for Hanukah this year. The roasted red peppers we de-seeded and sliced in half, then ‘flayed or splayed’, what’s the word? directly on the grill. The onions we placed on a piece of foil on the grill and drizzled with olive oil. This seemed to work but if you have the tools a bbq pan would be perfect for this. The one linked here also works for BBQ pizza. My other favorite grilled treat.

We had some trouble getting our wraps to stay closed. We’ve actually both had previous experience in food service but while i got mine off beautifully in one piece.. i kind of butchered his. But he still ate it anyway.

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