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Christmas Party Pinwheels

 

party pinwheelsChristmas Party Pinwheels look and taste wonderful. We serve them every year. They look great on the table for Christmas with the green onion and red bell pepper. The red pepper jelly adds a nice sweet – hot flavor to the rest of the ingredients.

I could sit down and make a meal of these. Actually... I have! This is a Christmas party appetizer that makes a great lunch also. I have learned over the years to make extra pinwheels for my family. If I don't then only a few make it to the party for our guests, even if I put a note on the tray stating that no one is to eat them. All of a sudden no one in our family can read. So I make a separate plate of these for us to eat, hopefully satisfying everyone's craving.

If you would like to step up the flavor another notch
then sprinkle in some toasted crushed pecans. Wow!

 

Christmas Pinwheel Recipe


Ingredients:

  • 1 – cup finely chopped cooked chicken
  • 1/2 – cup chopped lettuce
  • 1/2 – cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
  • 1/3 – cup chopped green onions
  • 1/3 – cup of minced red bell pepper
  • 4 – ounces light cream cheese, softened
  • 2 – tablespoons sour cream
  • 1 – tablespoon hot red pepper jelly
  • 3 – 9 inch flour tortillas

Preparation:

  1. In medium bowl, combine chicken, lettuce, cheddar cheese, green onions and red bell pepper.
  2. Set aside.
  3. In small bowl, beat together cream cheese, sour cream, and red pepper jelly on low speed of electric mixer.
  4. Spread 1/3 cream cheese mixture over one side of tortilla.
  5. Sprinkle with 1/3 chicken mixture, leaving 1/2 inch border at top just covered with cream cheese mixture (so you can seal it closed.) Roll up tightly, jelly roll style.
  6. Wrap tortilla roll in plastic wrap.
  7. Repeat with remaining tortillas and filling.
  8. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
  9. Trim off the ends and cut each roll into 8 slices, serve cold.

 

 "Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." – W. C. Fields

 

 

 

 

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