Black Bean Pinwheels

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Ingredients

Soft flat bread: like Lavash/middle eastern flat bread or extra large tortillas/chapatti
1 can organic refried black beans
½ tsp ground cumin
¾ tsp garlic salt
1 container vegan cream cheese: like Tofutti or Follow Your Heart
(you can also substitute with regular organic cream cheese)
4 roasted bell peppers (from a jar): cut into slivers
Julienned vegetables: carrots, cucumbers, jicama or daikon root
Lettuce greens
1 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 container of broccoli sprouts or alfalfa sprouts

Fab has a vegan kitchen in her California home & shares recipes and tips on food that you can make with your kids. Watch her teach her kids & their friends to cook a healthy fun lunch, black bean pinwheels. This is a great recipe to get your kids started in the kitchen & enjoy for lunch or dinner.

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Parent Earth The mission of Parent Earth is to answer parents’ questions about food, and work with partners to create a world that nurtures healthy, thriving children. They create short online videos on everything from cooking and gardening to nutrition and behavior.

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MAKE IT

Arrange all the ingredients in an assembly style station.
Spread cream cheese over ¼ bottom half of flatbread.
Spread refried black beans above the cream cheese.
Follow with the roasted bell peppers and then veggies, each in succession.
On the last row layer a handful of lettuce greens.
Sprinkle 1 tsp. cilantro on top of the black beans.
Layer a large pinch of sprouts onto the cream cheese.
Starting at the bottom roll upwards into a tight roll.
When you reach the end, spread a small amount of cream cheese along the top end to help seal the roll.
Complete the rolling.
Slice into desired wheel widths.
Enjoy!