Recipe for Grilled Organic Chicken and Hamburger Tortilla Wraps (For a Family of 4)

This is a low-fat, sugar and salt-free grilled meal that reduces the exposure to gluten in breads, synthetic addictive chemicals and factory farmed meats. The recipe will provide left-over bacon, tortillas, onions and condiments to be used for other meals.

Total Cooking Time: 30 minutes (the first time will probably take longer).

Actual Work Time on Meal: 30 minutes including prep.

Organic Ingredients:

3 Organic Chicken Breasts (4 if you want leftovers)
1 Pound Organic Hamburger (1½ pounds if you want leftovers)
1 pound of Apple Smoked Baconr
Organic Flour Tortillasrn½ head of romaine (or your favorite lettuce)
1 avocado
1 large or 3 small organic tomatoes
1 small organic Maui onion (or the onion of your choice)
4 thick slices of either Gouda, Cheddar, Jack or Swiss cheeser
Organic Condiments (Pickles, Mayonnaise, Ketchup and/or Mustard)
Frontier Organic White Pepperr
Organic curry powderr
A peppery seasoning such as Tony’s salt-free or Fat Boy Cajun Rubr
Fresh rosemary branches usually found in the produce sectionr
Handful of wood chips – pecan, cherry or alder.

Prep Before Cooking:

Chicken: Sprinkle white pepper, followed by curry powder and a touch of peppery seasonings on both sides of the chicken breasts.

Hamburger: Take a paper plate (or your favorite cooking plate) and use a poultry scissors to cut the rosemary leaves over the plate into pieces as small as possible. Sprinkle white pepper, curry and a touch spicy seasoning onto the paper plate. Open the hamburger package and place one pound of hamburger onto the plate. Sprinkle more of the same seasonings on top of the hamburger and kneed the meat much like you would a meat loaf.

Once the rosemary and seasonings have been mixed into the hamburger, re-form the burger into three sections preferably about 2 inches thick. I make them oblong. They cook easier. A thicker hamburger patty stays moist and tastes better. It also gives you the choice of cooking them rare so you can finish cooking them in the microwave when you want to eat some later on. You are ready to cook.

Cooking: We suggest that you turn your grill on high while you are prepping the chicken and hamburger. When the chicken and hamburger are ready to go, throw some of a handful of wood chips and a few rosemary branches on the grill. Put the chicken over one side of the grill and the hamburger over the other.

Watch the fire so your food does not burn. If the chips catch fire, dose the flame with water as it will create even more smoke. When the grill gets hot, shut off the flame under the chicken, but leave the flame on under the hamburger. The object is to smoke the chicken, not cook it. The chicken will continue to cook for a few minutes after taking it off the grill so don’t overcook it and make it dry. The hamburger should be turned over when it turns grey on top and is firm enough to turn without it falling apart.

If the grill was hot when you put the meats on, the hamburger will take 5 minutes on each side. The chicken will taste best if it smokes for about 10 minutes.

Bacon: Put bacon into pan when you start preparing your chicken and hamburger. Turn frying pan on high. Put the bacon in the pan as it is heating. As soon as it gets hot enough to smoke, turn the flame down to simmer. Wait a few minutes and turn the bacon over and turn the flame back up to high until the pan is hot and shut it off. Take bacon out when it is golden brown (unless you like your bacon well-done or crisp).

Prepare for Serving: Cut long leaves of romaine to fit the tortilla wraps. Cut avocado in half and use a large spoon to remove its contents. Slice both halves of avocado into long strips to add into your tortilla wraps. Cut tomatoes into thin slices. Cut onions into thin slices (or to your personal preference). Put out condiments on the counter in the kitchen and serve as stove-top meal. Or, serve it on platters on the table.

When the chicken and hamburger are cooked to your preference, pull and cut into long slices. That way each family member can decide the size of their hamburger or chicken wrap. This makes preparing small wraps for young children easier.

This recipe permits each member of the family to choose either chicken or hamburger alone or a combination with their favorite healthy side dish. The wraps can be served with potatoes, salad, organic Sauerkraut, homemade potato salad or cole slaw. Leftovers, if any, can be served the next day or used for school or work lunches.

In contrast, a Big Mac contains 69 ingredients containing 840 calories, 1,880 mg of salt and 56 grams of sugar. McDonald's fries contain 530 calories, 350 mg of salt and 56 grams of sugar (not including the sugar contained in high fructose corn syrup and the hidde
MSG and salt in the 46 different ingredients). We estimate that a Big Mac and Fries contain more than 5,000 mg of salt and 150 grams of sugar. A Coca-Cola contains 140 calories (supersized 410 calories), 39 grams of sugar (another 40 grams of sugar from corn syrup) but no salt.

Our recipe is lean, low in fat, low in salt, no sugar and has no chemical additives that cause weight gain, obesity, food addiction, illness or disease.