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Eating Works » Recipe Archive » Entrees » Vegan Collard Green Wraps with Veggies and Healthy Refried Black Beans

Vegan Collard Green Wraps with Veggies and Healthy Refried Black Beans

September 1, 2020 · Maren Epstein · 23 Comments

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healthy Mexican collard green wrap with sweet potatoes onions and spicy green tahini sauce
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These Healthy Collard Green Wraps are stuffed with hearty veggies like roasted sweet potatoes, caramelized onions and the healthiest “refried” beans ever. I love drizzling Spicy Green Tahini Sauce on them and digging in. The whole family will love this hearty vegan dinner!

collard green wrap with vegan refried black beans spicy green tahini sauce and cartelized onions and roasted sweet potatoes

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  • What You’ll Need to Make Collard Green Wraps
  • How to Make the Wraps
  • How to Store the Wraps
  • Substitutions

Collard Wraps are a great gluten-free and grain-free alternative to a standard wrap or sandwich.If you’re trying to spice up your food life you’ve got to try putting your favorite foods in a collard green wrap! You can use any combinations of veggies, dips and sauces to create effortless grain free, gluten free and healthy creations. Wraps are perfect for lunch or dinner. All you need to make one are..

  1. Collard Greens
  2. A Dip to use as “glue”
  3. Fillings

The combinations of savories you can use are endless, you can create anything from Mediterranean falafel wraps with hummus to Thai inspired wraps with peanut sauce. For this wrap I decided to use one of my favorite vegan hearty combinations, black beans and sweet potatoes. I Combined vegan refried black beans with roasted sweet potatoes and caramelized onions smothered in a spicy green tahini sauce.

collard green wrap with vegan refried black beans spicy green tahini sauce and cartelized onions and roasted sweet potatoes

What You’ll Need to Make Collard Green Wraps

  • Tahini 
  • Parsley 
  • Cilantro 
  • White Wine Vinegar 
  • Water 
  • Jalapeno 
  • Sweet Potatoes
  • Onions
  • Black Beans
  • Garlic
  • Cumin
  • Lemon or Lime
  • Collard Greens
collard green wrap with vegan refried black beans spicy green tahini sauce and cartelized onions and roasted sweet potatoes

How to Make the Wraps

Step 1: Make the Vegan Refried Black Beans – Preheat the oven to 350. In a deep large skillet, heat olive oil over medium high heat. Add chopped onions and saute until they’re translucent. Add pressed or minced garlic and cumin. Lower the heat to medium and saute for another minute. Add the beans and aquafaba. Turn up the heat and allow the beans to simmer for 25 minutes or until 1/3rd of the cooking liquid is gone. Transfer to a food processor and blend until smooth..

Step 2: Make the Veggie Filling – While the beans are cooking, chop the onion into thin slices and dice the sweet potato into one inch cubes. In a small skillet heat up oil and add onions. Sauté until they caramelize. This takes a while so just stir them ever few minutes while the beans and sweet potatoes are cooking.

collard green wrap with vegan refried black beans spicy green tahini sauce and cartelized onions and roasted sweet potatoes

Arrange the sweet potatoes on a foil lined baking sheet. Lightly coat with oil, salt and pepper. Roast for 15-20 minutes or until the potatoes start to turn golden brown around the edges. Make sure to flip the sweet potatoes early because they will burn on the bottom faster than on top. Remove and allow to cool.

Step 3: Make the Dipping Sauce (Optional) – Peel the garlic, chop the cilantro, separate the parsley leaves from the stems and juice the lemons.  Place all of the ingredients into a blender and emulsify until smooth.

Step 4: Make the Collard Wraps – Raw collard greens are hard to roll into wraps. I still love using them raw because they give the wrap that nice crunch. But for softer easier to manage wraps you can soften them by holding them over boiling water.

collard green wrap with vegan refried black beans spicy green tahini sauce and cartelized onions and roasted sweet potatoes

Hold each leaf over boiling water until they turn bright green. This should take only about 1 minute. Once the leaf gets soft and pliable remove it from the heat. Slice off the bottom woody stem.

The main stem behind the collard leaf is tough and makes it hard to roll. You can solve this by either…

  • Crush: crushing the back of the stem with something heavy.
  • Slice: you can slice away part of the stem by cutting into it diagonally. Turn the leaf over and using your knife slice diagonally into the stem and trim it away.

Step 5: Assemble the Wraps

  1. Place the leaf on the cutting board face up.
  2. Spread the black bean spread over the leaf generously and load it up with 1/4th cup of the veggie filling.
  3. Then roll the wrap over while tucking in the sides. Slice through the middle. If the wraps are falling apart you can use a skewer to hold them together.
collard green wrap with vegan refried black beans spicy green tahini sauce and cartelized onions and roasted sweet potatoes

How to Store the Wraps

Refrigerate: You can store the wraps assembled for up to 5 days. I prefer to make the wraps as I want to eat them and to keep the filling, bean spread, dipping sauce and wrap separately. Once all of the items are made it only takes a minute or two to create a lettuce wrap.

Freeze: The sauce, refried beans, and filling freeze well, but collards and whole wraps do not.

Substitutions

  • Instead of beans you can use guacamole.
  • Instead of the green tahini sauce you can use salsa.
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Mexican Collard Green Wrap

These Healthy Collard Green Wraps are stuffed with hearty veggies like roasted sweet potatoes, caramelized onions and the healthiest “refried” beans ever. I love drizzling Spicy Green Tahini Sauce on them and digging in.
5 from 7 votes
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Course: Dinner, Lunch
Cuisine: Mexican, Vegan
Keyword: Vegan Collard Green Wrap
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings: 10 wraps
Calories: 98kcal
Author: Maren Epstein
Cost: 20
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Equipment

  • Garlic Press
  • Deep Large Skillet
  • Small Skillet
  • Sheet Tray
  • Tin Foil

Ingredients

Vegan Refried Black Beans

  • 1 Onion chopped (save half for veggie filling)
  • 3 Cloves Garlic pressed
  • 2 tbsp Cumin
  • 2 15 oz Low Sodium Black Beans Can save aquafaba
  • 1 Lemon juiced

Veggie Filling

  • 1 Sweet Potato 1 inch cubes
  • 1/2 Onion Sliced

Collard Wraps

  • 1 bunch Collard Greens stems removed

Optional Tahini Sauce

  • 1 bunch Cilantro
  • 1/2 bunch Parsley stems removed
  • 2 Lemons juiced
  • 2 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
  • 1/2 C Water
  • 1/3 C Tahini
  • 1/4 Jalapeno seeds removed
  • 3 Garlic Cloves
  • 1/2 tsp Fine Grain Sea Salt

Instructions

Vegan Refried Black Beans

  • Pre-Heat oven to 350 degrees. Heat oil in a large deep skillet. While the oil is heating dice the onion and press the garlic with a garlic press or mince by hand. Add onions to the pan and saute for 10 minutes stiring often to make sure they don't burn. Once translucent add the garlic and cumin to and saute for another 5 minutes. Lower the heat so the garlic does not burn. Add the beans and liquid and stir. Simmer uncovered for about 25 minutes or until 1/3rd of the cooking liquid evaporates. Transfer to a food blender and process until smooth. Season to taste with lemon juice and salt.

Veggie Filling

  • Heat oil in a skillet. Saute onions until they are carmelized. Arange sweet potoes on a sheet tray. Lightly coat with oil and roast for 15 minutes then flip. Remove when golden brown.

Spicy Green Tahini Sauce

  • Combine the cilantro, parsley, lemon juice, water, vinegar, jalapeno and garlic cloves in a high speed blender. Blend until smooth. Use a tamper to press the ingredients into the blade for even emulsification.

For the Wraps

  • Hold each collard green leaf over boiling water for 1 minute. When the leaf is soft remove stem and trim the back. Assemble wrap by filling with black beans and the veggie filling. Roll the wrap and tuck in the sides.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Wrap | Calories: 98kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 141mg | Potassium: 275mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 4486IU | Vitamin C: 31mg | Calcium: 94mg | Iron: 2mg
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  1. Linda says

    September 2, 2020 at 8:12 pm

    Oh yum! These collard green wraps are hearty delicious indeed and I love how I can make these ahead of time. And tahini? Love it so much!

    Reply
    • Maren Epstein says

      September 3, 2020 at 6:23 pm

      <3 Yes I packed a lot into one little wrap. Thank you so much! They are great to make ahead for weekday lunches.

  2. Emily Woodward says

    September 2, 2020 at 11:44 pm

    I’ve never made anything like this before, but the sauce sounds so good, I want to try it.

    Reply
    • Maren Epstein says

      September 3, 2020 at 6:22 pm

      I’ve linked to the sauce and the dip separately so you could try them! The sauce is definitely worth it. Thanks!

  3. Amanda Marie Boyle says

    September 3, 2020 at 2:11 am

    So good, love it with salsa!

    Reply
    • Maren Epstein says

      September 3, 2020 at 6:21 pm

      Hey Amanda! thanks so much!

  4. Amy says

    September 3, 2020 at 9:02 am

    Oh I love this recipe! Healthy and delicious at the same time. Being Asian, I do a lot of vegetable wrapping so I’m loving having something new to try.

    Reply
    • Maren Epstein says

      September 3, 2020 at 6:21 pm

      YES! It’s always fun to “wrap up” your salad lol. I would love to learn more about Asian healthy combinations to wrap. Thanks again!

  5. Angela says

    September 3, 2020 at 11:37 am

    It is absolutely delicious and healthy. I love this recipe

    Reply
    • Maren Epstein says

      September 3, 2020 at 6:19 pm

      Thank you so much Angela! I’m so glad you like it.

  6. Taleen | Just As Tasty says

    September 4, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    Yum, this looks so healthy and delicious!

    Reply
    • Maren Epstein says

      September 6, 2020 at 9:43 pm

      thank you <3

  7. Alexandra says

    September 4, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    Absolutely delicious! So fresh and light, and love these flavours.

    Reply
  8. Chef Dennis says

    September 5, 2020 at 11:54 am

    Talk about perfect timing, I had a Vegan friend stopping by and didn’t know what to make. I came across your post and made these for lunch yesterday. Talk about one happy Vegan, she loved them!

    Reply
    • Maren Epstein says

      September 6, 2020 at 9:44 pm

      Wow that really is great timing! Not to mention so nice of you to go out of your way for you’re vegan friend!!!

  9. Capri says

    September 6, 2020 at 3:41 pm

    These wraps are so delicious!!

    Reply
    • Maren Epstein says

      September 6, 2020 at 9:44 pm

      Thank you so much Capri!

    • Maren Epstein says

      September 6, 2020 at 9:44 pm

      Thanks Capri!

  10. Sue says

    September 6, 2020 at 6:30 pm

    These were delicious! I never thought of using collard greens for a wrap – I will do this again for sure! Thank you!

    Reply
    • Maren Epstein says

      September 6, 2020 at 9:45 pm

      Awesome! So glad that you enjoyed them

  11. Robyn says

    September 6, 2020 at 6:53 pm

    This is such a delicious and healthy wrap!

    Reply
  12. Lyndia Bailey says

    August 9, 2021 at 7:30 am

    Sound very good , will try this my self, Lyndia.

    Reply
    • Maren Epstein says

      August 10, 2021 at 6:42 pm

      I hope you get to try this! I know it has a lot of parts but it’s easy. It’s one of the only meals my entire family will/can eat and ENJOY! We have a lot of special diets and picky eaters in my house. Keep me posted on how it goes and let me know if you have ANY questions about the recipe!

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