Description
Here is a easy finger food recipe for that Super Bowl party coming up! These are incredibly easy to make for your party buffet. Pinwheels are everywhere! You will surely see them on just about every catering menu, but why buy someone else’s creation when you can make your own in just minutes? Start with some of the treats you already enjoy in another form and just transfer them to a pinwheel arrangement.
Ingredients
- 12 ounces, weight Cream Cheese, At Room Temperature
- 1 package Frozen Battered Chicken Strips, 25 Ounce Package
- ½ cups Buffalo Wing Hot Sauce Plus 2 Tablespoons
- 8 Flour Tortillas, 10” Burrito Size
- 2 ounces, weight Blue Cheese, Crumbled
- ¾ cups Celery, 1/4″ Dice
- ½ cups Sour Cream
- ¼ teaspoons Table Salt
Preparation
1. Remove cream cheese from refrigerator and let it come to room temperature.
2. Preheat oven to 400ºF
3. Spread chicken strips on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes, turning once halfway through the cooking time. Then remove them from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet.
4. Cut the cooled chicken into a ¼” dice and put into a bowl. Add ½ cup of the Buffalo sauce and stir to coat all of the diced chicken. Cover and put in refrigerator for at least a ½ hour.
5. Assemble pinwheels into logs by laying one tortilla on the work surface. Spread 1½ ounces of the softened cream cheese over the entire top surface of the tortilla.
6. Beginning ½” from the edge nearest you, lay a 2” strip of the diced chicken mixture across the tortilla. Stop the strip about ½” from the right and left edges of the tortilla.
7. Then at the far edge of the line of chicken mixture put a line of blue cheese crumbles only one crumble thick across the tortilla.
8. Next lay another strip of diced chicken mixture, this time 1” wide, across the tortilla, followed by a ½” strip of the diced celery.
9. Finally, put 1 tablespoon of the additional Buffalo sauce in a bowl and use a brush to dab a ½” wide stripe of sauce across the tortilla, at the far edge of the strip of diced Celery.
10. Gently press down on all of the fillings to set them into the cream cheese. Then tightly roll up the tortilla beginning at the edge nearest you. The cream cheese without any fillings on top will serve to seal the finished log. Repeat with the remaining tortillas and fillings.
11. As you complete each tortilla, roll each log tightly in a sheet of plastic wrap. Make sure that the plastic wrap is at least 4 inches wider than the log so you can tuck the ends over to seal completely. Chill the wrapped logs for an hour to firm up.
12. Stir the last 1 tablespoon of the Buffalo sauce into the sour cream and mix in the salt. Cover and allow the flavors to meld in the refrigerator.
Before serving, remove the plastic wrap and cut each log into one inch slices and arrange on a serving plate with the cut sides up to show the spiraling pinwheel. Serve with the sour cream dipping sauce on the side.
