How to Make Collard Green Wraps
Collard greens are the perfect leafy greens to make delicious wraps from because these leaves are soft and large. Using collard greens for wraps is also an easy way to incorporate more greens into your diet. The options for veggies, pate or dressing you can fill the wrap with are endless. Wraps are also a great way to use leftovers as you can simply pack your leftover salad and pate into your wrap on a busy day.
Collard greens are among the leafy greens that have the highest nutritional value. In fact according to Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s ANDI food scoring system, collard greens are #1 along with mustard greens and turnip greens with a nutrient score of 1000.
ANDI stands for Aggregate Nutrient Density Index. This index assigns a score to a variety of foods on a scale of 0 – 1000 based on adding up most of the vitamins and minerals they deliver for each calorie consumed.
The most nutrient dense foods score 1000; all other foods are then scored relative to them. Collard greens, kale, mustard greens, watercress, and turnip greens score 1000 while Cola scores 1, vanilla ice cream 9, and French Fries 12.
In these two videos we show you two different ways to make wraps from collard greens. This is so easy! Please make this at home and incorporate nutrient dense collard greens into your diet for a strong immune system!
Video #1 – How to Make Collard Green Wraps
In this video Dr. Kelsey Becker shows you how to make wraps from collard greens filled with delicious raw shredded veggies and a sesame seed pate.
Video #2 – How to Fold Collard Greens into a Parcel that Doesn’t Drip
Ever ate a wrap with sauce and juices dripping down your forearms? As delicious as wraps can be, it can require quite a clean up afterwards. In this video Dr. Baylac shows you how to make a veggie wrap with a collard leaf into a pocket so that it doesn’t drip. This is so easy! Great tip… check it out!
Collard Green Wraps
Equipment
- Grater
- Cutting Board
- Knife
Ingredients
- 2 Large Collard Leaves washed and dried
- Chopped Raw Veggies of Your Choice e.g. tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, olives
- Shredded/Grated Raw Veggies of Your Choice e.g. carrots, daikon, beets
- 1 Handful Sprouts of your choice e.g. broccoli, alfalfa, sunflower, etc.
- Fresh herbs of your choice e.g. cilantro, basil, mint, parsley
- 1/2 Lemon or lime
- Pate, dip or salad dressing of your choice e.g. raw chickpea miso, sunflower seed hummus
Instructions
- Option 1: Remove the hard stem from the collard leaf by cutting it out (see video #1 above).
- Option 2: Push down on the hard stem of the collard leaf with the flat side of a large knife and break down the hard fibers in the stem to soften it (see video #2 above).
- Pack the raw cut, shredded and other veggies you have into the wrap however you like it.
- Add some fresh herbs to give your wrap flavor.
- Squeeze some lemon or lime juice over the veggies.
- Add the pate, dip or salad dressing to your layered ingredients.
- Now fold your leaf into a wrap and cut into two pieces. Serve some more sauce on the side for dipping if you prefer.
- Or, fold your leaf into a parcel (option 2, see video #2 above).
