These Turkey Wraps with Barbecue Sauce are a quick tasty lunch that we enjoy at weekends – they only take ten minutes to make. For optimum flavour, marinade your turkey overnight.
Updated 2026 · Originally commissioned using Heinz products via the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community – see further info below.
I think everyone is very familiar with the traditional Heinz baked beans – or Heinz Beanz as they’re now officially called – Heinz Tomato Ketchup and Classic Soups. However I was staggered to learn on the Heinz website there are actually now 5,700 Heinz products – never mind 57 varieties, actually 5,700. I was further amused to learn there were on average 465 beans in a 415g can. I’m glad it’s not my job to count them.
You can see all the photos from my visit in this Google+ album Heinz Morrisons #CBias (RIP Google Plus – sadly I can’t link to this now) together with my commentary on the range of products available. I made a point of looking for things I’d forgotten Heinz made, such as sticky treacle sponge pudding in cans.
My favourite Heinz products as a kid were Lentil Soup and Oxtail Soup. When I was off school in the holidays as a teenager my mum (who was at work) used to leave me some money to buy my lunch in the local convenience store and I would make a special trip to buy a can of Heinz soup! I also remember making a Heinz Tomato soup pencil case in art class – it was screen printed for the black and red areas and I embroidered the letters on!
Making Turkey Wraps with Barbecue Sauce
Chop the turkey breast fillets into thin strips. Use a sharp knife – my favourite is this Heston Blumenthal knife by Grunwerg.
Take a bottle of Heinz Classic Barbecue Sauce. It can be used as a dip or marinade.
Cover the turkey breast strips with Heinz Classic Barbecue Sauce – I used around 1/3 bottle with 400g turkey. Cover the bowl with cling film and ideally allow to marinade for a few hours or overnight – you could do it sooner than this but the flavours will marinade the meat if you do this step in advance.
When you’re ready to cook the turkey, chop some red onion and red pepper. Grab some lettuce or salad leaves to pop in the wraps with the meat.
Fry most of the red onion gently in 1tsp olive oil. Retain a tablespoon of red onion to chop finely and use as garnish.
Once the onion has softened, tip in the turkey in its marinade.
Cook on a medium heat until cooked through. Allow to cool slightly before spooning onto the wraps.
We enjoyed these for a week day lunch. Allow around 100g turkey per wrap. Make sure the meat has cooled down before handing to children to eat. If yours are like mine, they get grumpy eating anything messy so I actually gave Ted a fork to eat his filling and then rolled up the tortilla wrap covered in lettuce and barbecue sauce to eat afterwards!
Turkey Wraps With Barbecue Sauce
Ingredients
- 400 g turkey breast fillets
- 150 g barbecue sauce I used Heinz Classic BBQ Sauce
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 red onion finely sliced
- 1/2 red pepper diced
- 12 leaves little gem lettuce
- 4 tortilla wraps
Instructions
- Chop the turkey breast fillets into thin strips.
- In a small bowl, cover the turkey breast strips with barbecue sauce. Cover the bowl with cling film and allow to marinade for a few hours or overnight.
- When you're ready to cook the filling, set a tablespoon of the raw onion aside for salad filling. In a frying pan, fry the rest of the sliced onion in olive oil.
- When the onion is softened, add the turkey in barbecue sauce and cook through on a medium heat. Allow to cool slightly.
- Lay the wraps out flat on four plates. Line a quarter of each wrap's surface area with 3 leaves of gem lettuce and spoon some warm turkey in sauce on top of the lettuce.
- Scatter over the remaining raw onion and diced red pepper. Roll up the wraps into a cone, serve immediately.
More Wrap Filling Ideas
We are very fond of eating wraps for lunch so I’ve featured them a few times:
- Spicy Egg Wraps with Pork and Chorizo
- Rainbow Burrito Wraps with Spicy Chicken
- Roast Beef Wraps with Cranberry and Spinach
I am a member of the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community. This content has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias® #CBias #SocialFabric.
This post was originally commissioned using Heinz products via the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community in 2013. Our first mission was to investigate Heinz products at our local Morrison’s supermarket and to come home with a product I’d not bought before and use it to make a family meal.
Fab photography x
They look delish and really healthy with the salad! I love your cornishware plates, so vibrant
Thanks Kerry – I bought the plates as seconds in a Heal’s sale when I was a student and have had them ever since!