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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy chicken quesadillas using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Chicken Quesadillas:
- Prepare filling
- Make ready flour or corn tortillas based on size, 1 Tblspn canola oil
- Get olive oil
- Make ready red onion diced
- Prepare jalepeno, seeded, diced
- Take lg clove garlic minced
- Get taco seasoning
- Make ready can diced tomato with green chilis, juices reserved
- Prepare shredded cooked chicken
- Make ready juice of 1 large lime
- Get large grated sharp cheddar
- Take crumbled queso fresco
- Get salt
- Prepare cilantro cream salsa
- Make ready sour cream
- Get juice and zest of 1 lime
- Make ready large handful cilantro leaves, chopped
- Get red chili flake
- Take salt
Sprinkle the chicken with salt, pepper and taco seasoning. Add the chicken to the skillet and saute. This chicken quesadilla recipe stuffed with monterey jack and cheddar cheese is just the appetizer for a Cinco de Mayo party or any celebration coming up. These Easy Chicken Quesadillas are my new obsession.
Instructions to make Easy Chicken Quesadillas:
- Saute onion garlic and jalepeno in olive oil for a few minutes, add taco seasoning and stir to toast for 2-5 minutes until onions are semi translucent
- Add drained diced tomato, stir. Add shredded chicken, stir until heated through. Add tomato juices as needed for moisture
- Turn off heat on chicken mixture, cool completely. Stir in cheese. Salt to taste. Set aside.
- Blend all salsa ingredients and chill until ready to serve
- On a medium high heat add enough canola oil to just coat a skillet or griddle
- Place tortilla on skillet, top with chicken mixture leaving a 1/2 inch of room around edges for melting room, top with tortilla
- Allow first side to crisp up and get golden, flip, repeat with remaining chicken mixture and tortillas
- Allow each to cool a few minutes and slice in quarters with a pizza cutter. Enjoy with cilantro cream salsa, fresh lime wedges, and fresh chopped cilantro as a garnish
- Side note. When using acids like lime juice always salt at the end to your preference to avoid over saltiness. Also all spicy heat (peppers and chiles) and seasoning elements can be adjusted to your preference in taste
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