Tuna and Cucumber Pinwheels

If your family likes tuna, you can make these simple tuna and cucumber pinwheels as an easy meal prep recipe for lunches. This recipe makes up to 24 servings of pinwheels for any large family or longer-term lunch prep.

What Do I Need?

For ingredients, you will need some flour tortillas, cream cheese, dill weed, tuna, and cucumber. The dill weed is optional but useful for flavor. And you can also optionally add other ingredients that you like alongside these, like maybe thinly sliced carrots, since the list is so short as is.

Can I Make These For Any Meal?

Honestly, pinwheels can be a refreshing dinner choice just as much as they can be a traditional lunch idea. You would most benefit from using this easy food for lunches, especially since you can make so many servings from one sitting of prep and eat them for a while afterward.

Why Does It Make So Many Servings?

Making pinwheels and wraps are going to be something that has a lot of servings since you usually cut it up small to serve. This is particularly useful for any busy families or individuals that don’t typically have time to make lunches or dinners every single day to be unique.

Why Do You Chill Before Cutting?

It’s not necessary to chill these for a whole hour before cutting the pinwheels up. But it does help make your cuts much easier and keeps the rolls all put together as a whole. It helps keep the appearance of the pinwheels as well, which is why most people chill for however long they want and cut immediately before serving.

Can I Add Seasoning?

You can definitely easily make these your own by adding some custom flavors. Any form of spice like a good hot sauce or spicy seasoning mix added in would work great with the tuna if you like spicy foods. You can also add salt or pepper to taste if you want to. It’s really up to your own creativity.

How Long Do These Last?

For the best flavor, you’ll want to eat most of these the day of, which is why you can make these for a picnic or larger gathering. But they will last up to 2-3 days in the fridge if stored safely in an airtight container, especially if you only cut up what you’re going to eat as you serve them.

When Can I Make Pinwheels?

Pinwheels are also excellent treats for picnics or events as long as others don’t mind the tuna element. You can serve pinwheels like any other sandwich to make the food last longer with chips, snacks, or salads. The options for serving or when to bring some tuna and cucumber pinwheels are endless.

Should I Peel My Cucumber?

If you don’t want to have cucumber skin in your food, you’re welcome to peel it or leave it unpeeled when you cut it up too. Either option works. For added nutrients, you might want to keep the peel on or at least some of the peel since cucumber nutrients and vitamins are often more present in the peels.

Can I Make These With Other Meat?

We all know that plenty of folks out there suffer from seafood-related allergies or just don’t want to eat seafood in general, so tuna may not be an option. If you want to, you can use canned chicken or just about any form of lunch meat in a pinwheel instead of tuna. And you can even make half of the batch with tuna and half with other meats.

Follow the recipe below for some delicious little tuna and cucumber-focused pinwheels that will satisfy your family for lunches in the coming days or weeks. You can have these ready in minutes!